Clinical Nurse Consultant

Your new role:

As a Clinical Nurse Consultant, you will provide advanced clinical expertise and leadership within the CYMHS Acute Response Team, supporting children, young people, and their families across acute and community care settings.

• Lead and deliver expert clinical mental health care across emergency departments and community follow-up
• Provide advanced clinical consultancy, supporting complex assessments and care planning
• Drive quality improvement, clinical governance, and evidence-based practice
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to enhance patient outcomes and service delivery

About you:

You're a passionate and experienced mental health clinician who wants to make a genuine difference in the lives of children, young people, and their families. You bring confidence, compassion, and leadership, and you thrive in environments where collaboration and care go hand in hand.

• You have strong clinical experience in child and youth mental health, ideally in fast-paced acute or emergency settings
• You communicate with empathy and clarity, and feel confident making decisions as part of a multidisciplinary team
• You care deeply about delivering evidence-based, person-centred care that truly improves lives
• You enjoy lifting others up—mentoring, sharing knowledge, and helping create a supportive, positive team environment

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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:

The Metro South Child and Youth Mental Health Service (CYMHS) provides comprehensive support to the varying needs of infants, children, young people, and their carers/families across the care continuum including the perinatal period. Metro South CYMHS covers the Logan, Beaudesert, and Redland catchment areas, and provides support across hospital, specialist, and community settings, and it made up of 17 teams/units in total.

The CYMHS Acute Response Team provides specialist mental health assessments within the Emergency Departments across Logan and Redland Hospitals. Alongside this, the team also provides short-term follow-up as clinically indicated within the community setting.

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.