Coordinate Complex Care for Patients with Disability

Join Metro South Health as a Nurse Navigator – Disability (NG7) at Logan Hospital. This full-time temporary opportunity (10-month contract) focuses on coordinating patient-centred care for individuals with disability, ensuring seamless transitions across the healthcare continuum through advanced clinical leadership and collaborative practice.

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Your new role:

As a Nurse Navigator – Disability, you'll deliver advanced nursing care, coordination and leadership for patients with complex disability needs across Logan Hospital and the surrounding catchment. You'll work collaboratively with internal and external providers to improve patient outcomes, enhance system efficiencies and lead service integration.

You will:

• Coordinate comprehensive care for patients with complex disability-related conditions.
• Provide advanced clinical leadership and consultation to internal and external stakeholders.
• Develop and support multidisciplinary partnerships to ensure continuity of care across health services.
• Empower patients and families through education, self-management support and health literacy.

About you:

You are a compassionate, collaborative and highly skilled nursing professional with advanced clinical and leadership capability in disability care. You'll bring an ability to coordinate complex care across systems while driving innovation and improving patient experiences.

You will demonstrate:

• Extensive experience in disability or complex care management.
• Advanced clinical knowledge, including understanding of NDIS, guardianship, restrictive practices and strengths-based care.
• Proven ability to build partnerships across primary, secondary and tertiary services.
• Strong leadership, communication and change management skills.

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What we can offer you:

• 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:

Logan Hospital is the major health centre for one of the fastest growing areas in Queensland. We offer a range of services, including medical, rehabilitation, maternity, surgical and paediatric care.

We offer our staff and students extensive support and training in most medical specialties. As a teaching hospital, we help train future health care professionals and participate in research through strong partnerships with Queensland's leading medical schools, universities, and TAFE Queensland.

Our services will continue to grow as we build bigger and better facilities to support the community. By 2027, we'll have more beds and 5 more birthing suites as part of the Logan Hospital expansion.

Logan Hospital, a place of opportunity to make a difference and grow your career!

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.

• 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
  
  MS09656162_2 RD (PDF, 569KB)
  Role Description