Ready to lead with purpose in a place where your expertise truly matters? Darling Downs Health is seeking a Clinical Nurse to join our rural team in Texas, where your leadership will shape care outcomes and strengthen community health. This is more than a job—it’s a chance to live and work where connection runs deep, and your clinical voice is heard. If you're looking to step into a role with autonomy, impact, and a slower pace of life, this could be the change you've been waiting for.

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What your day will look like….

You'll guide and support a close-knit multidisciplinary team, coordinating care and navigating complex clinical scenarios with confidence and compassion. From mentoring junior staff to driving quality improvements and managing resources, your role blends hands-on care with strategic oversight. You'll be trusted to make decisions, lead change, and advocate for safe, person-centred care with the backing of a team that values collaboration and community. In Texas, your leadership doesn't just support the team, it uplifts the entire town.

Let's talk about you!

Our ideal candidate will be someone who can inspire the following:

• Compassion – you will engage with others and demonstrate empathy, care, kindness, support and understanding.
• Integrity – you are open, honest, approachable, equitable and consistent in everything we do.
• Dignity – you treat others with respect, display reasonableness and take pride in what you do.
• Innovation – you embrace change and strive to know more, learn more and do better.
• Courage – you respectfully question for clarity and have the strength and confidence to Speak Up.

Why Us?

Darling Downs Health's (DDH) region is a large geographic area covering approximately 90,000 square kilometres across Southeast Queensland. We are one of the largest employers in the region, with a diverse team of more than 6,000 staff. We deliver frontline health services across our 30 facilities and care for nearly 300,000 people, support the birth of almost 3,000 babies and perform more than 15,000 breastscreens.

We offer rewarding career opportunities across a wide range of clinical and non-clinical areas throughout our health service and pride ourselves on providing a work culture that values and respects diversity in the workplace. We also believe that all our employees should be treated fairly, with dignity and with respect.  DDH is committed to providing a safe, secure, supportive, and inclusive workplace.

Benefits!

• Competitive wages, salary packaging and leave entitlements
• A diverse work culture
• Career development
• Professional development opportunities
• Education opportunities, Study and Research
• Paid parental leave
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Discounted Private Health Insurance
• Fitness Passport
• Work-Life Balance, Variety and Flexibility
• Generous Salary Sacrificing

Next step….

Applicants are to apply online and supply the requested documentation.

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Further information

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

For more information about Darling Downs Health, please go to www.health.qld.gov.au/darlingdowns

Documents

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

• DD2508654200 Role Description (PDF, 846KB)
  Role Description
  
  Candidate Application Guide (PDF, 198KB)
  Information Package for Applicants