Lead Specialist care and coordinate complex spinal injury outpatient services at the PAH!

Lead, coordinate, and deliver high-quality spinal injury nursing care in Princess Alexander Hospital's dynamic outpatient environment.

Job details

Your new role:

As a Clinical Nurse - Coordinator within the Spinal Injuries Outpatient Department, you will provide advanced, specialist nursing care and coordination for patients with spinal cord injuries across the outpatient continuum. Working autonomously and collaboratively, you will play a key role in delivering high-quality, evidence-based care while supporting service delivery, education and quality improvement initiatives.

• Provide advanced clinical assessment, care planning and coordination for patients with complex spinal injury needs in an outpatient setting
• Deliver specialist spinal injury nursing care, including opportunities for nurse-led or collaborative clinics such as wound assessment and external fixation management
• Provide clinical leadership and support to nursing staff, contributing to team coordination, delegation and professional practice
• Contribute to service improvement through portfolio responsibilities across clinical practice, education, research, benchmarking and data/activity management

About you:

You are an experienced and highly skilled Clinical Nurse with specialist knowledge in spinal injuries and a strong commitment to person-centred, evidence-based care. You bring advanced clinical judgement, leadership capability and a collaborative approach to working within a multidisciplinary rehabilitation environment.

• Demonstrated advanced clinical knowledge and critical thinking skills in spinal injury care, with the ability to manage complex patient presentations autonomously.
• Strong leadership and coordination skills, with experience supporting team practice, change management and quality improvement initiatives.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, enabling effective engagement with patients, families and multidisciplinary teams.
• Commitment to ongoing professional development, education, research and upholding safety, quality and professional standards.

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 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.

• MS01672596_Role Description (PDF)
  
  Application essentials - things you need to know (PDF)
  
  We are MSH - five reasons why you should join us (PDF)