Stewart William Rae
Kallangur
Summary
This resume outlines a dynamic 15-year career in nursing, showcasing progressive professional development across diverse healthcare systems—including the NHS, UK private sector, and Australian Government services. My experience spans clinical, managerial, and leadership roles, enabling me to integrate policy, strategic initiatives, and procedural knowledge from multiple sectors to deliver high-quality, patient-centred care.
From the outset of my career, I’ve advanced into senior nursing positions, cultivating the leadership and management capabilities essential for guiding multidisciplinary teams. These roles have shaped me into a confident nurse leader and mentor, committed to supporting the growth and development of fellow nurses and allied health professionals.
My foundation in holistic nursing has opened pathways into varied clinical domains, including both Mental Health and General Practice. As an Advanced Nurse Practitioner in primary care, I’ve combined clinical expertise with ongoing university training to evolve into a well-rounded practitioner—equipped with the advanced skills and insight required to deliver comprehensive, evidence-based care.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
Work History
Nurse Practitioner - Woodford Correctional Centre
QLD Health Caboolture, Kilcoy and Woodford
11.2024 - Current
- Performed comprehensive physical examinations and documented patient histories to gather information and identify health issues.
- Ordered and interpreted diagnostic tests to develop and implement treatment plans.
- Prescribed and managed pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatments to treat underlying causes and relieve symptoms.
- Provided medical services and care to patients with chronic and acute conditions.
- Conducted comprehensive assessments and initiated treatment plans for incarcerated individuals with OUD.
- Prescribed and managed Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT), including methadone and buprenorphine, in line with correctional health guidelines.
- Delivered withdrawal management and stabilisation care during intake and transitions between facilities.
- Collaborated with correctional officers, psychologists, and social workers to ensure continuity of care and safety.
- Provided psychoeducation on substance use, relapse prevention, and harm reduction tailored to custodial environments.
- Facilitated post-release care planning, including referrals to community-based addiction services and housing support.
- Implemented trauma-informed approaches to address co-occurring mental health conditions and histories of abuse.
- Participated in multidisciplinary case reviews and contributed to policy development for custodial addiction care.
- Maintained meticulous documentation aligned with legal, ethical, and institutional standards.
- Supported culturally responsive care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples impacted by substance use and incarceration.
Nurse Practitioner – Adult Mental Health Team
Metro North, Qld Health, Caboolture/Redcliffe and RBWH
10.2023 - Current
- Working alongside the medical and case management team of Redcliffe Community Mental Health Team to provide holistic care to consumers in the Redcliffe Catchment areas.
- Providing a ready resource for urgent and nonurgent patient medication review and prescriptions as required.
- Conducting consumer medical reviews including detailed assessment, diagnosis and intervention exploring both medicinal and nonmedicinal options.
- Providing a full physical assessment of consumers with expressed health concerns, offering them the appropriate treatment, advise and signposting after evaluation.
- Proactively developing at Community Mental Health, Physical and Mental Health Promotion clinic which will link in with GP practices in the local area and provide a collaborative approach to care for consumers with difficulty or reluctance to see a GP.
- Assisting consumers with Alcohol and or drug addiction, providing advice and guidance to aid recovery and monitoring of health implications
- Attending to emergency presentations in the community health facility and liaising with appropriate services to provide support and intervention to consumers.
- Offer health promotion and lifestyle advise to aid both mental and physical health of consumers.
- Work with consumers, stakeholders, and families to ensure the most effect treatment interventions are provided.
- Perform the NP role autonomously at an advanced level to support the team Consultant.
- Undertaking Clozapine reviews, on behalf of the Consultant Psychiatrist, including polypharmacy review, metabolic monitoring and cardiac monitoring reviews are current.
- Aid in leadership of the community team and provide advice and support to nursing and allied health staff as required.
- Continuing with own professional development and partaking in research and developmental projects withing Metro North.
Clinical Nurse - Acute Care team
Metro North, Qld Health, Caboolture
10.2022 - 10.2023
- Providing effective collaboration between consumers, their families, primary care services, none government organisations and hospitals.
- Providing full assessment of the consumers attending the Emergency Department suffering with Mental Health Crisis.
- Work autonomously in the role of crisis assessment, providing a holistic assessment of consumer’s needs.
- Offer diagnostic opinion with appropriate treatment options.
- Provide effective education to consumers on both Mental and Physical health conditions to aid in recovery.
- Provide colleagues with advice and guidance on presenting conditions and support with the decision-making process.
- Work closely with the medical team on appropriate intervention and treatment to consumers.
- Act accordingly under the Mental Health Act, as an Approved Practitioner, following legislative guidelines and local policy indicated by the Chief Psychiatrist.
- Take leadership over shifts providing a point of call for consumers and hospital staff.
- Assist none nursing colleagues with the understanding of consumers investigations undertaken.
- Triaging and working with the Emergency Department in identifying the needs of consumers including comorbidities contributing to their mental health.
- Supporting consumers in times of crisis and identifying needs that can be safely met in the community.
- Providing consumers with strategies and interventions to aid in their mental health and signposting on organisations in the community that can offer further support.
- Identifying consumers who require urgent support withing an inpatient facility and organising transition including implementing the Mental Health Act 2016 when deemed necessary.
- Completing high quality assessments incorporating all aspects of the persons health, providing evidenced based and best practice interventions to support consumers.
- Liaising with consumers families and any primary care services to ensure ongoing support is given.
- Ensuring a comprehensive discharge and safety plan is given to consumers.
Advanced Nurse Practitioner
CAMO – Self Employed UK
10.2017 - 09.2022
- Founder and sole director of Camo Healthcare services managing accounts, payroll, and development.
- Locum Nurse Practitioner working in a range of GP surgeries, Out of Hours centres, Urgent Care and Prisons.
- Work in line with the current National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) for assessment, intervention, and treatment of patients with acute and chronic conditions.
- Carry out 15-minute face to face appointments with patients presenting in a GP surgery.
- Assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of patients physical and mental health conditions.
- Physical health assessment incorporating all body systems in a systematic order.
- Assessment of need to transfer patients to secondary care for further investigation and treatment.
- Request Laboratory investigation and conduct analysis on result to direct course of treatment.
- Undertake ECGs interpretation of results to inform course of treatment.
- Provide Health care planning and lifestyle interventions.
- Prescribe medication within scope of own practice for the treatment of minor illness, long term chronic conditions and mental health.
- Conduct screenings, diagnostic treatment, and rehabilitative services on a primary health care team.
- Lead in practice for patients with Mental health conditions presenting at a GP practice. Implementing care and treatment plans within the community and review at regular intervals.
- Crisis intervention of patients presenting to clinic – Leading on patient assessment and crisis protocol to ensure safety and delivery of intervention.
- Experience with various medical conditions including mental health, Parkinson's, dementia, diabetes, cancer, cardiovascular, respiratory, renal, and musculoskeletal conditions.
- Work with safeguarding teams for children and adults in need.
- Telephone triage assessing both physical and mental health conditions.
- Respond to emergency life threatening conditions within practice.
- Maintain a high level of personal accountability.
- Maintain nursing records ensuring confidentiality to high exacting standards.
Senior Nurse
Her Majesties Prison, County Durham, United Kingdom
10.2014 - 10.2017
- Displayed Strong leadership skills for a nursing staff team and multidisciplinary in a High Security prison environment.
- Lead nursing team on daily basis delegating staff nurse duties, rotas and acting as first point of contact for all clinical and management situations.
- Established the production of a staff supervision process and implementation of training calendar for the nursing department.
- Worked alongside the nurse manager on day to day running of the inpatient unit.
- Provided emergency response to prisoners experiencing acute physical health emergencies.
- Lead mental health link nurse and respond to mental health crisis situations prison wide.
- Assess and monitor prisoners with acute and enduring mental illness and link with secondary care for ongoing support and treatment needs.
- Facilitation of the transfer process of prisoners from prison to high security mental health hospitals.
- Development of the Wellman clinic and roll out across 7 prisons.
- To provide One to One support, assessment, and intervention in the Wellman clinic to prisoners suffering with physical and mental health conditions.
- Development of person-centred plans to prisoners suffering with mental illness and the development of mental health passports that can be taken from Prison to Prison during transfers.
- Monitoring fluid intake and output levels, base line observations and signs of deterioration in an inpatient ward.
- Monitored patient reactions to drugs and carefully documented progress, side effects or adverse reactions.
- Administration of Intravenous medication.
- Undertake Urinary catheterisation. Collected blood, tissue and other laboratory specimens and prepared them for lab testing.
- Performed lab tests and communicated results to patients and members of the multidisciplinary team for actions.
- Developed patient care plans, including assessments, evaluations, and nursing diagnoses.
- Liaised between patients and doctors to ensure patient understanding of treatment plans.
- Ensured efficacy of treatments through monitoring of treatment regimens. Scheduled patient admissions and discharges.
- Worked in accordance with NICE guidelines. Performed monthly inventory and maintained office and medical supply counts.
- Development of prison inpatient protocol which then was actioned in all prison hospitals in the Northeast of England.
Staff nurse moving in to Senior Nurse Role
Cambian Group, County Durham, United Kingdom
01.2010 - 10.2014
- Lead nursing team in a newly operational secure Mental Health Rehabilitations unit.
- Observed and monitored client behaviour and responses to treatment.
- Involved clients' family members in planning social service programmes.
- Ran individual therapy and family therapy sessions for adults.
- Supported patients through Cognitive Behavioural Therapy.
- Supported patients who suffered domestic, physical, emotional and substance abuse.
- Developed and implemented treatment plans and modified through the patient’s recovery.
- Preparation of tribunal reports and attendance of tribunal hearing to those detained under the mental health act.
- Monitored and supported patients in crisis. Facilitated safeguarding assessment and planning for adults.
- Mediated conflicts within families to clarify and resolve underlying issues.
- Improved outcomes of patients with psychiatric and co-morbid chronic pain conditions.
- Developed goal-orientated psychoeducational and activity therapy groups to improve clients' level of functioning.
- Facilitated a smooth discharge by encouraging and reassuring clients throughout their transitions.
- Documented psychiatric services and responses to treatment in patient case files.
- Presented case history material to review and discussion with other staff members.
- Lead nurse for patients suffering duel diagnosis of Mental health and Learning disability.
- Oversaw 30 psychiatric nursing staff. Supervision of newly qualified nurses providing a preceptorship programme.
- Worked closely with hospital manager in the function of the hospital.
- Consulted and trained with highly skilled mental health and medical staff.
- Completed monthly medication and stock order. Kept abreast of new and developing information in the mental health field by regularly attending professional conferences and workshops.
- Continually improved knowledge base through literature reviews and educational training.
- Maintained knowledge and practice of the Mental Health Act. Knowledge of Personality disorders and complex mental health conditions.
- Frequently testified as a professional in Mental health tribunals.
Education
Master's Standalone Module - Quality use of Medicines, Drug Pharmacokinetics and Drug Pharmacodynamics
The University of Queensland
01.2023
Master of Science - Advanced Practitioner
Teesside University
01.2022
Non-Medical Prescribing - Pharmacological prescribing
Teesside University
01.2016
Physical Health Assessment Skills - Advanced health and body system assessment
Teesside University
01.2016
Mentoring in Practice - Student nurse mentor
Teesside University
01.2012
Advanced Diploma - Nursing Studies
Teesside University
01.2010
Skills
- Qualified and experienced in Mental and General Health Nursing
- Patient/family/recovery focused
- Experienced Nurse Practitioner in a range of health specialities
- Advanced physical health assessment and disease management
- Advanced Psychiatric Clinical Skills
- Developing AOD practitioner
- ECG interpretation
- Haematology interpretation
- Management and leadership
- Preventive care
- Patient education
- Health promotion
- Interprofessional collaboration
Timeline
Nurse Practitioner - Woodford Correctional Centre
QLD Health Caboolture, Kilcoy and Woodford
11.2024 - Current
Nurse Practitioner – Adult Mental Health Team
Metro North, Qld Health, Caboolture/Redcliffe and RBWH
10.2023 - Current
Clinical Nurse - Acute Care team
Metro North, Qld Health, Caboolture
10.2022 - 10.2023
Advanced Nurse Practitioner
CAMO – Self Employed UK
10.2017 - 09.2022
Senior Nurse
Her Majesties Prison, County Durham, United Kingdom
10.2014 - 10.2017
Staff nurse moving in to Senior Nurse Role
Cambian Group, County Durham, United Kingdom
01.2010 - 10.2014
Master of Science - Advanced Practitioner
Teesside University
Non-Medical Prescribing - Pharmacological prescribing
Teesside University
Physical Health Assessment Skills - Advanced health and body system assessment
Teesside University
Mentoring in Practice - Student nurse mentor
Teesside University
Advanced Diploma - Nursing Studies
Teesside University
Master's Standalone Module - Quality use of Medicines, Drug Pharmacokinetics and Drug Pharmacodynamics
The University of Queensland
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