Elevate your nursing career with Darling Downs Health as a Clinical Nurse Consultant – Perinatal Mental Health in Toowoomba. Here, you'll leverage your clinical expertise to provide specialised consultation and liaison in perinatal mental health services. Collaborate with the primary care sector to create integrated care pathways for women at moderate to high risk of perinatal mental health conditions, ensuring the best outcomes for mothers and their families. Join us in making a meaningful impact on maternal and infant well-being.
What your day will look like….
Imagine a day where you make a real difference in the lives of women and their families. You'll conduct comprehensive mental health assessments, develop personalised care plans, and provide therapeutic interventions. Working closely with a supportive multidisciplinary team, you'll ensure smooth transitions between general hospital services and specialised mental health care. Your role will also involve promoting mental health awareness, supporting early parenting, and fostering strong parent-infant bonds. Additionally, you'll mentor and inspire your colleagues, contribute to cutting-edge research, and lead quality improvement initiatives, all while creating a positive and collaborative work environment.
Let's talk about you!
Our ideal candidate will be someone who can inspire the following:
- Compassion – you will engage with others and demonstrate empathy, care, kindness, support and understanding.
- Integrity – you are open, honest, approachable, equitable and consistent in everything we do.
- Dignity – you treat others with respect, display reasonableness and take pride in what you do.
- Innovation – you embrace change and strive to know more, learn more and do better.
- Courage – you respectfully question for clarity and have the strength and confidence to Speak Up.
Why Us?
Darling Downs Health's (DDH) region is a large geographic area covering approximately 90,000 square kilometres across Southeast Queensland. We are one of the largest employers in the region, with a diverse team of more than 6,000 staff. We deliver frontline health services across our 30 facilities and care for nearly 300,000 people, support the birth of almost 3,000 babies and perform more than 15,000 breastscreens.
We offer rewarding career opportunities across a wide range of clinical and non-clinical areas throughout our health service and pride ourselves on providing a work culture that values and respects diversity in the workplace. We also believe that all our employees should be treated fairly, with dignity and with respect. DDH is committed to providing a safe, secure, supportive, and inclusive workplace.
Benefits!
- Competitive wages, salary packaging and leave entitlements
- 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
- Work-Life Balance, Variety and Flexibility
- Generous Salary Sacrificing
Next step….
Applicants are to apply online and supply the requested documentation.
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Further information
We are committed to building inclusive cultures in the Queensland public sector that respect and promote human rights and diversity.
For more information about Darling Downs Health, please go to www.health.qld.gov.au/darlingdowns
Documents
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