Mental Health Triage Clinician

Metro South Health is Australia's first digital health service and one of the largest in Queensland, with an estimated residential population of approximately one million people or 23 per cent of Queensland's population. 

This is your opportunity to join the dedicated team of professionals at Metro South Health and be part of a world-class, dynamic and growing health service that embraces technology, excellence in health care, teaching, research and empowering our people to be the best in serving our community.

About the Role

The Mental Health Triage clinician role is pivotal to the Wembley Road community facility for the first point in contact for people seeking assistance with:

• Mental Health Triage and assessment for walk in consumers.
• Responsible for planning and coordination of care following assessment or discussion and with the medical team.
• Responsible for daily duty intake Monday – Friday 0830-1700pm (last assessment 1600pm).
• Referral pathways to internal and external teams following ad hoc review of referrals held daily.
• Assist the team with consumers that may be on the duty intake register for immediate tasks for follow up.
• Receive verbal handovers from other teams/services regarding Transfer of Care and liaise with Team Leader for action.
• Medication assistance for consumers that attend the clinic for Long Acting Injectables (LAI's).
• Provide immediate assistance with applications for an Examination Authority under Mental Health Act 2016.

• The Clinical Nurse plays a pivotal role in providing in person support for the attainment of consumer goals including the development of independent living skills.

Find out about the role in more detail and how to apply in the attached Role Description.

Our ICARE² values of Integrity, Compassion, Accountability, Respect, Engagement and Excellence, shape our culture within Metro South Health. Our values guide our day-to-day decision making and are fundamental to what we care about as a health service, how we behave, how we interact with each other and provide care to the many patients who come through our doors every day.

We offer rewarding career opportunities across a wide range of clinical and non-clinical areas across our health service and pride ourselves on providing a work environment that is safe, satisfying, flexible, and promotes a healthy work-life balance.

As a Metro South employee, you will benefit from a higher than standard employer contribution to Superannuation of up to 12.75%, access to salary packaging, flexible working arrangements and competitive salary rates with annual incremental increases.

You can find out more about why it's so great to work at Metro South here: www.metrosouth.health.qld.gov.au/join-our-team.