Advance Your Nursing Career in Infection Prevention Leadership

Play a pivotal role in safeguarding patient outcomes while shaping best-practice infection prevention across a dynamic health service

Job details

Your new role:

As a Clinical Nurse in Infection Control, you will provide advanced clinical expertise and leadership in the delivery of safe, evidence-based infection prevention and control practices across the service. Key responsibilities include:

• Deliver specialist infection prevention and control care, including assessment, planning, and management of patients with complex needs
• Provide clinical leadership, supporting staff through education, mentoring, and coordination of care delivery
• Lead and contribute to quality improvement initiatives, audits, and risk management activities to ensure compliance with national standards
• Collaborate across multidisciplinary teams and multiple sites to optimise infection control practices and patient outcomes

About you:

You are an experienced and motivated Registered Nurse with a passion for infection control and a commitment to excellence in patient care. You will bring:

• Advanced clinical knowledge and experience in infection prevention and control, with strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Demonstrated ability to lead, mentor, and support teams in a complex healthcare environment
• Proven experience in quality improvement, clinical audits, and implementing evidence-based practice
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build effective relationships across multidisciplinary teams

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.

Unit Profile

Infection Control is a nursing unit within Bayside Health Service, which encompasses Redland Hospital, Health Service Centre, Wynnum-Manly Community Health Centre, Pandanus Ward, Wisteria Unit, Marie-Rose Centre - Dunwich and Redlands Satellite Health Centre. The service is based within Redland Hospital and is part of the Metro South Health wide infection management network.

Infection Control provides a clinical infection prevention and control service to patients, staff and the public from across the Bayside Health Service sites and contributes to the development and implementation of the annual Infection Control Management Plans in accordance with legislative requirements.

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.

• We are MSH - five reasons why you should join us (PDF)
  
  MS05681764 Role Description (PDF)
  
  Application essentials - things you need to know (PDF)