Join Our Clinical Nurse Team: Lead Specialist Care for Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Communities

Provide expert, culturally sensitive nursing care to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander clients with complex needs. Join the HOMES team to lead holistic, client-centred support that empowers health and wellbeing in the community.

Job details

This is an identified vacancy with a genuine occupational requirement for the position to be filled by a candidate indigenous to the Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Community. Candidates not meeting this criteria will not be considered.

Your new Role:

The Clinical Nurse provides advanced clinical expertise and autonomous management in delivering specialist, culturally sensitive care to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander clients with complex health needs. As part of the HOMES team, the CN leads holistic, person-centred care that respects cultural, social, and emotional wellbeing, promotes client empowerment, and enhances health literacy through a strengths-based, collaborative approach.

About You:

We are looking for First Nations Clinical Nurses to provide their expertise:

• You are dedicated to making a real difference to the people of the community who come from all walks of life
• Deliver advanced, culturally sensitive, person-centred nursing care.
• You work collaboratively with others, showing kindness and respect
• You'll thrive working in a challenging environment where no two days are the same
• Working in a culturally sensitive way whilst improving the client's health literacy

Check out our quick tips and application essentials!

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 the Southern Queensland Centre of Excellence in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Primary Health Care:

The Southern Queensland Centre of Excellence in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Primary Health Care is a Queensland Health service for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Located in Inala, 18 km Southwest of Brisbane CBD, our clinic is staffed by GPs, nurses, allied health, and Aboriginal health workers, and visiting medical specialists. We also provide health-related services at a community level, and our research team is dedicated to finding and publishing evidence about how to improve the health of our patients.

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.

Documents

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

• 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
  
  MS10665338 Role Description_Identified (PDF, 321KB)
  Role Description