Leading care through smarter patient flow and workforce planning at a world class health service

Join Princess Alexandra Hospital as an Assistant Director of Nursing and lead critical patient flow and nursing workforce services that keep the hospital running safely and efficiently. This senior leadership role offers strategic influence, operational impact and the opportunity to shape models of care across Metro South Health.

Job details

Your new role:

As the Assistant Director of Nursing - Patient Flow Program and Nursing Resources, you will provide strategic and operational leadership across patient flow services and nursing workforce units at Princess Alexandra Hospital. Working in close partnership with executive and multidisciplinary leaders, you will drive safe, efficient patient access and staffing outcomes across a complex tertiary environment. You will be responsible for:

• Leading Patient Flow, Transit Care Hub, Interim Admission Centre, After-Hours Nurse Managers and Nursing Pools
• Delivering performance, quality, financial and workforce outcomes across multiple cost centres
• Driving service improvement, digital health initiatives and innovative models of care

About you:

You are a senior nursing leader with strong operational, financial and workforce management capability and a passion for improving patient access and care delivery. You thrive in complex environments, use data to drive decisions, and build strong partnerships to deliver sustainable system improvements.  You will bring:

• Extensive experience in senior nursing leadership, patient flow or workforce operations
• Advanced skills in financial management, data analysis and performance improvement
• Proven ability to lead change, develop teams and influence across large health services

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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 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.

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• Application essentials - things you need to know (PDF)
  
  We are MSH - five reasons why you should join us (PDF)
  
  MS02673344_RoleDescription (PDF)