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Clinical Nurse - Perioperative Services


QEII Hospital

Lead the Future of Perioperative Nursing Care at QEII

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Make a meaningful impact in a dynamic perioperative environment where clinical expertise, leadership, and patient-centred care come together to deliver outstanding surgical outcomes.

Job details

Position status Permanent
Position type Full-time
Occupational group Health - Nursing
Classification Nurse Grade 6 (1)
Workplace Location Brisbane - South
Job ad reference QLD/MS05682614
Closing date 26-May-2026
Job duration Permanent Full-time, 76 hours per fortnight
Contact person Antoniette Martinez
Contact details (07) 3182 6887
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Your new role:

As a Clinical Nurse within QEII Perioperative Services, you will play a pivotal role in delivering advanced specialist nursing care and coordinating perioperative resources to support safe, efficient, and high-quality surgical services. Working within a multidisciplinary team across seven operating theatres and a procedure room, you will provide expert clinical leadership while supporting education, quality improvement, and service delivery outcomes.

  • Provide advanced clinical leadership and expert perioperative nursing care for elective and emergency surgical patients across a range of specialties.
  • Coordinate and manage surgical consumables, equipment, and clinical resources to ensure safe, efficient, and effective patient care outcomes.

About you:

You are an experienced and motivated perioperative nursing professional who thrives in a fast-paced clinical environment and is passionate about delivering exceptional patient-centred care. You bring strong clinical judgement, leadership capability, and a commitment to continuous improvement and professional development.

  • Registered Nurse with current registration through the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA) and relevant perioperative nursing experience.
  • Demonstrated ability to work autonomously, apply advanced clinical reasoning, and lead clinical decision-making in complex healthcare environments.

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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:

Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Hospital:

The Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Hospital (QEII) is a medium metropolitan adult facility providing a range of inpatient and outpatient services including a 24-hour Emergency Department. We provide a range of services, including surgery, cardiology, endoscopy, orthopaedics, gynaecology, urology, geriatric, respiratory and emergency medicine.

We're making our hospital bigger and better to make it easier for our growing community to get the health care they need. We'll have more beds, medical wards and expanded intensive care and emergency services planned to be opened by 2027.

QEII Hospital, a place of opportunity to make a difference and grow your career!

 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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