Lead Workforce Strategy & Governance for Nursing and Midwifery Excellence

Drive system-wide workforce planning, governance, and data-informed decision-making to strengthen nursing and midwifery capability and deliver safe, high-quality care across a large and diverse health service.

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Your new Role:

As Nurse Manager within the Executive Director of Nursing and Midwifery (EDNM) Service, you will provide strategic and operational leadership to support workforce planning, recruitment, and governance initiatives across Metro South Health. Working collaboratively with senior stakeholders, you will lead Business Planning Framework (BPF) activities, support centralised recruitment campaigns, and leverage workforce data and informatics systems to guide service planning, benchmarking, and performance improvement. This role is pivotal in embedding governance processes, enhancing workforce capability, and ensuring alignment with organisational priorities to optimise patient and program outcomes.

About You:

You are a strategic and collaborative nursing leader with strong expertise in workforce planning, governance, and data-driven decision-making within complex healthcare environments. You will have:

• Demonstrated ability to lead workforce planning, recruitment, and BPF activities
• Advanced skills in workforce data analysis, benchmarking, and reporting
• Strong knowledge of governance frameworks, policy development, and quality systems
• Proven leadership in driving service improvement, innovation, and change
• Highly developed communication, stakeholder engagement, and problem-solving 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.

The Executive Director of Nursing and Midwifery Services (EDNM) Service

The EDNM Service is a central, non-clinical function providing system-wide leadership in nursing and midwifery governance, workforce planning, education, research, and informatics across Metro South Health, supporting a population of 1.2 million.

Through its Education and Research, and Professional Capability and Governance streams, it drives workforce sustainability, BPF implementation, and data-informed, high-quality care aligned with organisational priorities.

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.

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