Help us build a team where your expertise will make an impact!

Take a pivotal leadership role in ensuring seamless patient flow and quality care at Princess Alexandra Hospital. As Associate Nurse Manager, you’ll guide nursing teams, support operational excellence, and influence positive change across diverse units. If you have advanced clinical skills and a passion for improving healthcare delivery, this is your next career step.

Job details

Your new role:

As an Associate Nurse Manager in the Patient Flow Program, you'll collaborate with leadership to manage nursing operations across multiple units focused on admissions, transfers, and discharges.

You will:

• Lead nursing staff to deliver safe, high-quality, and cost-effective care aligned with best practice standards
• Support continuous improvement by monitoring patient flow, staff allocation, and clinical governance
• Provide expert clinical advice and mentorship to nursing teams
• Drive operational changes and innovations in patient flow and capacity management
• Collaborate closely with Emergency, Transit Care, and Admission Centres to ensure timely, patient-centred care

About you:

We're looking for a registered nurse with advanced clinical expertise and leadership skills, who thrives in a dynamic, evolving healthcare environment. You will have:

• Strong leadership, communication, and negotiation skills
• Experience in clinical governance, workforce management, and quality improvement
• Ability to apply critical thinking and expert clinical judgement
• Commitment to fostering a collaborative, professional, and supportive nursing culture

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:

Princess Alexandra Hospital:

The Princess Alexandra Hospital (PAH) is a tertiary health care centre providing care in most major adult specialties. We provide world class health care to Brisbane City's southern suburbs across emergency, medical, mental health and surgical services, including liver and kidney transplant.

We are nationally recognised for our expertise in trauma management and organ transplants and are one of Australia's leading academic and research health centres. The PAH as a major medical research precinct hosts Australia's most advanced medical research facility, the Translational Research Institute (TRI) as well as a new Clinical Research Facility for the discoveries made at TRI to be trialed in a safe clinical environment.

We're expanding our hospital to make sure everyone gets the care they need. We're adding more beds, modernising our buildings, and improving our spaces to treat kidney and cancer patients with all new services and facilities planned to open by 2027.

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 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
  
  MS11666637 Role Description (PDF, 477KB)
  Role Description