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Registered Nurse – Where Quality Care Starts in Princess Alexandra Hospital.
Join our Central Sterilising Services Department (CSSD) as a Registered Nurse and play a vital role in delivering safe, high-quality patient outcomes. Working within a collaborative healthcare team, you’ll combine clinical expertise, critical thinking, and a passion for continuous improvement to support best practice care across the organisation.
Job details
| Position status | Contract |
|---|---|
| Position type | Full-time,Part-time |
| Occupational group | Health - Nursing |
| Classification | Nurse Grade 5 |
| Workplace Location | Brisbane Inner City,Brisbane - South |
| Job ad reference | QLD/MS04679405 |
| Closing date | 27-Apr-2026 |
| Job duration | 6 MONTH POSSIBLE EXTENSION |
| Contact person | Tom Ward |
| Contact details | (07) 3176 2787 Access the National Relay Service |
Your new role:
As a Registered Nurse in CSSD, you will deliver safe, compassionate, and person-centred care while supporting the critical processes that underpin every clinical procedure.
This role offers the opportunity to grow from a developing practitioner into a highly skilled clinical professional, with exposure to leadership responsibilities, quality initiatives, and evidence-based practice. You'll work across a rotating roster, including day, evening, and night shifts, as well as on-call requirements.
Key Responsibilities:
- Deliver high-quality, person-centred care through effective assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation
- Support safe sterilisation and clinical practices aligned with established standards and protocols
- Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams including Nursing, Allied Health, and Medical staff
- Demonstrate accountability for clinical decisions, delegated care, and patient outcomes
About you:
You are a compassionate and motivated Registered Nurse with a strong commitment to delivering safe, high-quality care. You bring a proactive approach to learning and professional growth, along with a genuine passion for patient safety and excellence in clinical practice.
Skills & Experience:
- Experience or strong interest in CSSD / sterilising services
- Strong clinical assessment, planning, and decision-making skills
- Commitment to evidence-based practice and quality improvement
- Effective communication and interpersonal skills
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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 us:
The Princess Alexandra Hospital is a major teaching and referral centre and one of the largest hospitals in Australia and one of the largest providers of surgical services in the country. In line with government health strategies, the Princess Alexandra Hospital is focusing on high acuity patients under the care of the Medical, Surgical, Heart Lung and Critical Care, Cancer, and Rehabilitation Divisions. The Princess Alexandra Hospital is committed to the delivery of high-quality health care, teaching and research services.
The Division of Surgery provides comprehensive tertiary and quaternity specialty inpatient, ambulatory, outpatient and perioperative services in a large variety of specialty units at the Princess Alexandra Hospital. These services provide specialised multidisciplinary care to patients and their families within the Division, utilising advanced practice models of care that result in optimal patient outcomes and cost-efficient services.
The Central Sterilising Services Department (CSSD) is responsible for reprocessing of instruments and equipment required/used for Peri-operative Services, Days Surgery and Treatment Unit; some Ward associated clinics, Donate Life Services and Respiratory Clinic.
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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