Join a dynamic, person-centred community care team where you’ll lead innovation, elevate nursing standards, and shape exceptional patient outcomes, all while making a meaningful difference in people’s lives.

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Your new role:

We are looking for a passionate and driven Nurse Unit Manager to lead the Community Services Team at Metro South Health. This is an exciting opportunity to drive service innovation and foster high-performing clinical teams across community settings.

• Provide leadership and direction to a multidisciplinary team delivering acute, post-acute, rehabilitation, and restorative care across Eight Mile Plains and Cornubia.
• Oversee human, financial, and material resources, ensuring efficient service delivery and a positive team culture.
• Drive clinical governance, risk management, and quality improvement activities aligned with national standards.
• Collaborate with senior nursing and allied health professionals to improve service models and deliver person-centred, evidence-based care

About you:

You're a collaborative and inspiring leader with strong clinical insight and a commitment to workforce development. You thrive in fast-paced environments and are passionate about delivering excellence in community-based care.

• AHPRA-registered RN with significant experience in community health, hospital avoidance, or post-acute care settings.
• Demonstrated leadership capability in managing a nursing team, including performance, budgeting, and quality frameworks.
• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to influence, coach, and lead through change.
• Advanced knowledge of primary health principles, care integration, and contemporary nursing models of care.

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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.

About us:

Community and Oral Health Services deliver a broad range of quality community-based care and support services to help people improve and maintain their wellbeing and independence as well as oral health services to adults and children.

We deliver a myriad of services across Metro South including Hospital in the Home, Rehabilitation, Chronic Disease, Acute Care, Dementia Outreach, Oral Health, and specialist residential care along with delivering numerous other vital community health services.

Our services are delivered by multidisciplinary teams of nursing and allied health staff with the skills and experience to treat a full range of health needs.

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.

• MS08653041 RD (PDF, 543KB)
  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, 978KB)
  Information Package for Applicants