Registered Nurse - Acute Adult Mental Health

Make a Difference in Mental Health Nursing

Join the Adult Inpatient Mental Health team at Logan Hospital and make a meaningful difference in the lives of consumers. This temporary part-time opportunity offers the chance to deliver compassionate, person-centred care within a supportive multidisciplinary environment while continuing to develop your clinical skills in acute mental health nursing.

About This Role

Your new role:

Role

As a Registered Nurse within the Adult Inpatient Mental Health Units at Logan Hospital, you will provide safe, compassionate and person-centred care to consumers experiencing acute mental health needs. In this role, you will:

• Deliver comprehensive, person-centred nursing care that addresses the psychological, social, emotional, spiritual and physical needs of consumers.
• Conduct assessments, contribute to risk assessment and develop, implement and evaluate individualised care plans in collaboration with consumers, families, carers and the multidisciplinary team.
• Apply critical thinking, clinical judgement and effective prioritisation to respond to changing consumer and ward needs.
• Work collaboratively with the healthcare team to coordinate care, referrals and ongoing support.
• Promote a safe and secure environment through effective risk management, escalation of concerns and adherence to clinical policies and procedures.

About You

We are looking for a compassionate and motivated Registered Nurse who is committed to delivering high-quality, recovery-focused mental health care. You will demonstrate sound clinical judgement, a collaborative approach and a willingness to continue developing your knowledge and skills within an acute adult mental health setting. To be successful in this role, you will demonstrate:

• Knowledge of, or the ability to develop, mental health assessments, including risk assessment, and comprehensive care planning.
• The ability to deliver safe, evidence-based and person-centred care in a mental health inpatient environment.
• Effective communication, interpersonal and teamwork skills, with the ability to work collaboratively with consumers, families, carers and multidisciplinary colleagues.
• Critical thinking, clinical decision-making, organisation and time management skills.
• A commitment to reflective practice, lifelong learning, professional development and quality improvement.
• A positive attitude, flexibility and the ability to adapt to changing clinical and operational needs.

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What We Can Offer You

• 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.

Metro South Addiction And Mental Health Services

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.

Further information

We are committed to building inclusive cultures in the Queensland public sector that respect and promote human rights and diversity.

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