Role details
The Continuing Care Team at the Mackay Community Health Centre is seeking applications for a Clinical Nurse to join their team on a permanent basis.
How to apply and for mandatory requirements regarding this role, please refer to the attached Role Description.
Your opportunity

• The successful post holder will function as a Mental Health Clinical Nurse as part of a multidisciplinary team responsible for coordinating and delivering case management and care coordination activities. The Clinical Nurse will manage a case load that supports individuals with serious mental illness to provide specialist assessment, crisis management, care coordination, delivery of nursing interventions, case review, advanced care planning and risk management to the Continuing Care Team.
• This role will also contribute to the planning, development, implementation, maintenance and evaluation of a broad range of treatment and prevention activities to promote recovery from mental illness.

About the Team
The Continuing Care Team (CCT) works individually and in group settings to provide ongoing mental health interventions.

• Always strive to have the consumer and family or carers at the centre of any care intervention.
• To promote and maintain mental and physical wellbeing for all consumers.
• To ensure that services are accessible and responsive to individual needs.
• To ensure that any intervention assists the individual maintain an engaging and self-determined lifestyle in the community.
• To advocate for the consumer who may be experiencing stigma or marginalisation as a result of mental illness and psychiatric disability.
• To educate and raise awareness of serious mental illness to the wider community.

About our Hospital and Health Service
Mackay Hospital and Health Service has 6 hospitals, 2 multi-purpose health services and 4 community health centres that employ more than 3,700 staff. The district covers an area of approximately 90,000km2 and provides services to patients and their families in Bowen, Cannonvale, Clermont, Collinsville, Dysart, Glenden, Mackay, Middlemount, Moranbah, Proserpine and Sarina.
Some of our great benefits on offer

• Competitive wages, salary packaging and leave entitlements
• Flexible working arrangements
• A diverse work culture
• Career development
• Professional development opportunities
• Education opportunities, Study and Research
• Paid parental leave
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Discounted Private Health Insurance
• Fitness Passport

Workforce attraction incentive scheme
You may be eligible to receive the Incentive Scheme 1, the scheme is available to health workers that relocate from interstate or international to come work within our team may receive up to $20,000 in incentive payments under the Queensland Health Workforce Attraction Incentive Scheme (conditions apply).This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License.