About your role:
As the Team Leader for the Intellectual and Developmental Disability Mental Health Team, you will provide strategic leadership and operational management to a diverse group of health professionals.

You will:
Lead and manage clinical services and operational activities within the multidisciplinary team.
Provide advanced clinical advice on specialised mental health service delivery models.
Establish and maintain strong partnerships with key stakeholders across Queensland's mental health networks.
Drive evidence-based practice, quality initiatives, and continuous improvement.
Facilitate team development, workforce planning, and change management.
Oversee service delivery, ensuring safe, patient-centred, and compassionate care.

About you:
You are a skilled and compassionate leader with a strong background in allied health/nursing as well as intellectual and developmental disability mental health services.

Key skills and qualifications:
Advanced clinical expertise and a high level of independent professional judgment.
Proven experience managing multidisciplinary teams and operational responsibilities.
Exceptional communication, negotiation, and conflict resolution skills.
Ability to lead service improvement and research initiatives.
Tertiary qualifications with relevant registration.
Commitment to fostering a collaborative and inclusive team culture.
Experience in strategic planning, workforce development, and quality assurance.
Openness to travelling across various Metro South Health Locations.

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

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 Metro South Health:
We are the major public healthcare provider for Brisbane's south side, Logan, Redlands, and the Scenic Rim operating five major hospitals and a range of community, specialty, and state-wide healthcare services.

We are bold, innovative, collaborative, inspiring. We save lives, change lives, and make the world a better place. We are part of and proud of the community we serve.

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