The Medicine and Emergency Department are looking for a Nurse Navigator to join their team. To provide advanced Movement Disorders clinical and professional practice, facilitating a safe and efficient patient journey across the continuum of care through applying the Nurse Navigator principles of coordinating patient centred care, creating partnerships, improving patient outcomes and facilitating systems improvement. The role improves complex patient care, increases system efficiencies, reduces costs by streamlining and coordinating care.

Job details

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

• Accountable for Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA) and own standards, actions and the outcomes of own nursing/midwifery practice, professional advice given and for activities.
• Support education and research to promote innovation specific to healthcare trends, to promote patient focused and service outcomes within the scope of the Nurse Navigator position.
• Initiate a healthcare team with external partners to monitor complex care patients, identifying actions in coordinating timely patient centred care.
• Foster active patient engagement and participation in the development of individualised health care plans, which empower informed decision making and self-management regarding current and future health care options.

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

Our 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.

Eligible health workers may qualify for a Workforce Attraction Incentive payment. To find out more and see if you are eligible visit: https://www.healthycareers.health.qld.gov.au/attraction-incentives

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.

Further information

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

Applicants are encouraged to apply online; please review the Role Description for more information on application process requirements. Agency referrals will not be accepted for this position.

Documents

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

• Information Guide for Applicants (PDF, 644KB)
  Information Package for Applicants
  
  MS05562497 Role Description (PDF, 270KB)
  Role Description