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Clinical Nurse


Wooloongabba

Clinical Leadership Meets Critical Care in Princess Alexandra Hospital.

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Join a high-performing Emergency team where your advanced clinical expertise, leadership and critical thinking will shape patient outcomes. This is an opportunity to deliver specialist Emergency care while mentoring others, driving quality improvement and contributing to education and innovation.

Job details

Position status Permanent
Position type Full-time,Part-time
Occupational group Health - Nursing
Classification Nurse Grade 6 (1)
Workplace Location Brisbane Inner City,Brisbane - South
Job ad reference QLD/MS06684066
Closing date 11-Jun-2026
Job duration Permanent
Contact person sinead Chandler
Contact details (07) 3176 9788
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Your new role:

As a Clinical Nurse within Emergency, you'll play a key role in delivering advanced, person-centred care to patients with complex needs in a dynamic and fast-paced environment. Working autonomously and collaboratively, you'll provide expert clinical leadership, coordinate care delivery and support a culture of excellence across patient care, education and quality improvement initiatives.

You'll make an impact by:

  • Delivering advanced Emergency nursing care and clinical decision-making
  • Leading and coordinating care in complex and rapidly changing situations
  • Supporting and mentoring nursing staff, students and multidisciplinary teams
  • Acting as a clinical leader and role model for evidence-based practice
  • Coordinating shift activities and supporting staffing and team operations

About you:

You are a confident and experienced Emergency nursing professional who thrives in a fast-paced environment and can balance clinical expertise with strong leadership capability. You enjoy mentoring others, thinking critically and delivering high-quality care while supporting positive team outcomes.

You will bring:

  • Current registration as a Registered Nurse with AHPRA/NMBA
  • Minimum 3 years' Emergency nursing experience with advanced clinical capability
  • Advanced assessment, critical thinking and clinical problem-solving skills
  • Strong experience managing complex patient presentations and changing priorities
  • Demonstrated leadership and team coordination experience
  • Ability to delegate, guide and support multidisciplinary team members

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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 (PAH) is a Level 6 major referral centre, offering tertiary referral service to Brisbane South and surrounding areas. All adult specialities are provided with the exception of obstetrics, gynaecological and burns services. The PAH Emergency Department (ED) is one of the largest adult teaching hospital Emergency Departments in Australia. The Emergency Department attends to over 70,000 patients each year and admits approximately 33% patients into the hospital for specialist care.  Within the Emergency Department (ED) is a designated ED Mental Health assessment area and a Toxicology Unit.

 

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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Last updated
2 May 2023

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