Lead Safety & Quality in Mental Health Services!

Join Metro South Addictions and Mental Health Services as an Assistant Director of Nursing (ADON) in a permanent full-time leadership role. Lead the Safety & Quality Team and drive clinical governance, innovation, quality improvement and person-centred care across a complex and diverse mental health and addictions service.

As the Assistant Director of Nursing, you will provide strategic, operational and professional leadership to the Safety & Quality Team across Metro South Addictions and Mental Health Services. You will partner with executive leaders and multidisciplinary teams to strengthen clinical governance systems, improve patient outcomes and support safe, high-quality care delivery.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead safety, quality and clinical governance initiatives across MSAMHS.
• Drive service improvement, innovation and evidence-based practice.
• Provide operational leadership, workforce management and fiscal oversight.
• Analyse quality and performance data to support system redesign and patient outcomes.

You are a contemporary nursing leader with strong expertise in clinical governance, safety and quality systems within complex healthcare environments. You thrive in collaborative settings and are passionate about improving healthcare outcomes through innovation and leadership.

Skills & Experience

• Registered Nurse with extensive senior leadership experience.
• Strong knowledge of mental health, clinical governance and safety standards.
• Advanced stakeholder engagement, communication and change management skills.
• Proven ability to lead teams, manage projects and influence service improvement.

Check out our quick tips and application essentials!

• 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 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.