Clinical Nurse - Dual Diagnosis

Your new role:

As a Clinical Nurse within the Adult Wellbeing Team, you will provide advanced, person-centred care to consumers with complex mental health and substance use needs. Working both autonomously and collaboratively, you'll play a key role in delivering integrated, evidence-based interventions and driving quality outcomes.

• Deliver specialist dual diagnosis care, including comprehensive assessment and care planning
• Provide clinical leadership, supporting safe, high-quality and recovery-focused practice
• Deliver brief therapeutic interventions (e.g. CBT, DBT, Motivational Interviewing)
• Contribute to education, quality improvement, and service development initiatives

About you:

You are a skilled and compassionate clinician with a strong foundation in mental health nursing and a passion for integrated care.

• Demonstrated advanced clinical skills in mental health and/or alcohol and drug services
• Strong critical thinking, risk assessment, and care coordination capabilities
• Ability to work autonomously and lead within a multidisciplinary team
• Commitment to evidence-based practice, professional development, and quality improvement

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What we can offer you:

• We offer a family-friendly work environment that supports you in making the most of Queensland's laid-back lifestyle.
• We are renowned for teaching and research excellence with strong relations with Queensland's leading tertiary institutions.
• We want to empower you to build a long-term career, with countless opportunities to learn and grow, no matter your role
• You'll have all the benefits of working for Queensland's world-class public health system including generous leave entitlements, attractive salary and remuneration packages, salary packaging and access to relevant professional development allowances and/or leave, study and research assistance, corporate discounts and employee wellness programs.

About us:

Metro South Addiction and Mental Health Services provide inpatient, hospital-based and community mental health and community alcohol and drug services for all age groups across a number of campuses.

We embrace a forward looking, progressive approach and work collaboratively with all stakeholders in order to achieve expected outcomes. A clear and strong consumer and carer focus is promoted with our vision being to provide our community excellence in consumer centred, integrated care across the continuum of addiction (alcohol and drug) and mental health services.

INTEGRITY | COMPASSION | ACCOUNTABILITY | RESPECT | ENGAGEMENT | EXCELLENCE

Our values were created by employees for employees to shape our culture and inspire positive interactions in the workplace. Diversity of ideas, skills, traditions, and customs is celebrated as one of our greatest strengths. Having a workforce that reflects and understands the needs and expectations of our community is important to delivering safe, kinder, and more inclusive care.

We recognise our strength comes from the diversity of our people and so we encourage people of all genders, ethnicities, ages, abilities, languages, sexual orientation, and family responsibilities to apply.

We are better together.