Nurse Unit Manager

About the role

As the Nurse Unit Manager for the Mental Health Hospital in the Home (HiTH) Service, you will provide advanced nursing leadership and operational management for a multidisciplinary team delivering acute mental health care in community settings across the Redcliffe and Caboolture catchment. The role is responsible for ensuring the delivery of high-quality, consumer-centred care while maintaining professional standards, service performance and clinical outcomes. 

You will lead workforce, financial and resource management activities, support continuous quality improvement initiatives, and foster a positive learning culture for staff. Working collaboratively with consumers, carers and healthcare partners, you will play a key role in delivering recovery-oriented care that enables people to receive hospital-level mental health treatment within their home environment. 

About you

Our ideal candidate will be someone who can carry out the following key accountabilities in accordance with the Metro North Health's values:

• Lead and coordinate the Mental Health Hospital in the Home nursing team, providing clinical leadership, operational oversight and expert support to ensure safe and effective service delivery. 
• Monitor nursing practice standards and nurse-sensitive indicators while driving quality improvement, education and research initiatives to enhance consumer outcomes. 
• Develop workforce capability through mentoring, succession planning, performance development and fostering a culture of learning and professional growth.
• Lead the application of contemporary human, financial and resource management principles to achieve service objectives and performance targets. 
• Build strong collaborative relationships with consumers, carers, multidisciplinary teams and community stakeholders to support recovery-focused and culturally safe mental health care. 

Benefits when working for us

• Rewarding career and development opportunities across a wide range of clinical and non-clinical areas
• Value driven organisation which provides a work environment that is safe, satisfying, flexible, and promotes a healthy work-life balance
• Flexible working arrangements and competitive salary rates with annual incremental increases
• Benefit from a higher than standard employer contribution to Superannuation of up to 12.75% and access to salary packaging

Metro North Health offers a dynamic and progressive environment at the forefront of healthcare, research, and education. With a strong commitment to inclusion, flexibility, and professional development, we provide meaningful opportunities in a workplace that puts people first.

You can find out more about why it's so great to work at Metro North here: https://metronorth.health.qld.gov.au/careers

Applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are encouraged and welcomed.

Find out about the role in more detail and how to apply in the attached Role Description.

APPLICATIONS RECEIVED VIA THIRD PARTIES (RECRUITMENT AGENCIES ETC.) WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED