Have you got a heart for nursing and head for numbers? 💙🩺📊 You might be the genius we are looking for!

Central West Health is seeking a passionate and experienced Business Planning Framework (BPF) Nurse to join our dedicated team.

As the BPF Nurse you play a pivotal role in aligning nursing and midwifery resources with service demand, ensuring safe, effective and sustainable health care in our remote settings. Your leadership will directly impact patient outcomes, workforce planning, and clinical service delivery.

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for our Central West communities

Job details

We care about people | We champion safety and quality | We act with integrity and accountability | We are a capable and confident workforce | We improve continuously

What's involved – The Nurse Manager Business Planning Framework (BPF) plays a critical role in ensuring the effective allocation and management of nursing and midwifery resources within Central West Health (CWH). This role is responsible for developing, implementing, and monitoring workforce planning practices, processes, and tools that align with industrial key performance indicators (KPIs) and CWH priorities.

As a key leader in workforce optimisation, the Nurse Manager (BPF) ensures nursing and midwifery services are appropriately resourced to meet patient care demands. This includes overseeing workforce modelling, analysing service requirements, and providing strategic advice to support sustainable, safe, and efficient workforce planning.

About Central West Hospital and Health Service - Our diverse and rewarding work environment is as unique and dynamic as central west Queensland itself.  Our far-reaching health services cover a region of almost 20.6 percent of Queensland, encompasses seven local government areas, and reaches 18 unique and lively communities.

Expansive in the true sense of the word, the region opens new horizons painted in red earth, blue sky and burnt orange sunsets.  It might feel miles away from urban life, but we are just a two-hour flight from Brisbane – well within reach of the city and southeast Queensland's beautiful beaches.

Your benefits include:

• generous employer superannuation contribution up to 12.75%;
• salary packaging to increase your take home pay;
• 17.5% annual leave loading;
• Annual Isolation Bonus (RANIP);
• career development opportunities;
• CWH provided housing or rental assistance (conditions apply)

The locals will tell you a role with Central West Health is more than just a job, and a life in central west Queensland is as iconic as the region that defines it.  Be prepared to be embraced by warm, welcoming, and close-knit communities, and caring for and living among the people you work with to make a difference in their lives and yours, every day.

First impressions count - Slay the application process by:

• Submitting your CV with a statement “this is a true and correct representation of my work experience”, signed and dated by yourself.
• Provide a relevant and concise cover letter that address the ‘How you will be assessed' section of the attached role description.
• Complete the VPD paperwork and submit this as part of your application.

For more insight into what Central West Health has to offer, check out our YouTube channel: Central West Hospital and Health Service

It is a condition of employment for this role for the employee to be, and remain, vaccinated against measles, mumps, rubella, varicella and hepatitis B during their employment.

Applications should be submitted ONLINE. Include a completed vaccine preventable disease form and evidence of immunity and vaccinations and relevant qualifications with your application. For additional information regarding the responsibilities, mandatory qualifications and/or other requirements for this position please refer to the role description.

Further information

We are committed to building inclusive cultures in the Queensland public sector that respect and promote human rights and diversity.

It is recommended that you download the Role Description for future reference. If you have difficulty viewing the role description, contact Central West Recruitment (07) 4650 4017. Microsoft Word or PDF files are supported. Files – max: 2MB each.

Documents

Before applying for this vacancy please ensure you read the documents below.

• 2025.v1_QH Applicant Information Kit (PDF, 917KB)
  Application Kit
  
  2025.v1_Vaccine Preventable Disease and TB Forms (PDF, 434KB)
  Application Kit
  
  RD_Nurse_Manangement_(Business Planning Framework) (PDF, 344KB)
  Role Description