Are you looking for a challenge?

You'll play a pivotal role in our patients’ experience. From the moment someone enters our facility they are taken on a journey and have numerous interactions with our team members, in what can be a difficult time.

Job details

Your new Role:

The Clinical Nurse (CN) role focuses on delivering advanced clinical care and problem-solving for prisoners with complex healthcare needs. It involves autonomous work within the healthcare team, with a strong emphasis on planning, managing, and providing specialist nursing care in a corrections setting. The CN also provides clinical leadership in practice, education, and research, while supporting management responsibilities, including portfolio duties.

About You:

You will understand Metro South Health's values and have a genuine desire to join our team! You will contribute to our growth with your passion and expertise in clinical nursing with the ability to:

• Motivate, share your passion and thrive on providing quality healthcare
• Responsible for and able to function in complex situations while providing support and direction to the healthcare
  team
• Work both autonomously and within a team environment
• Exercise excellent communication skills, strong patient focus and high level of attention to detail
• Demonstrate an advanced knowledge of contemporary practice and theory in
  speciality area
• Demonstrate clinical leadership experience and skills with a ‘can do' attitude

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.

Palen Creek Correctional Centre

Palen Creek Correctional Centre is situated approximately 100km southwest of Brisbane in the rural community of Rathdowney and is built on 520 acres of land. It is a low security farm facility with prisoners located either on site or off site at work camp. These work camps are in Dirranbandi, St George, Mitchell and Charleville. The work camp programs provide high levels of community reparation, prisoner rehabilitation and reintegration. The facilities at Palen Creek include a Health Clinic, which offers a nurse-led general clinic, primary health promotion services, access to telehealth services when required and provides support to the Opioid Substitution Therapy Program, in addition to visiting medical officer clinics. Palen Creek Correctional Centre has the current capacity for up to 290 prisoners onsite and up to 40 prisoners away at offsite work camp.

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.

We are better together.

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.

• MS05637409 Role Description (PDF, 244KB)
  Role Description
  
  Application essentials - things you need to know (PDF, 691KB)
  Information Package for Applicants
  
  We are MSH - five reasons why you should join us (PDF, 415KB)
  Information Package for Applicants