Lead Infection Prevention Excellence Across Bayside Health

Make a meaningful impact on patient safety and quality care by providing expert infection prevention and control leadership across Bayside Health Service's diverse hospital and community settings.

Job details

Your new role:

You will provide advanced clinical expertise, consultancy and leadership to support safe, high-quality healthcare across Bayside Health Service. Working collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams, you will drive infection prevention strategies, surveillance programs, staff education and quality improvement initiatives, ensuring compliance with national standards while enhancing patient, staff and community safety. This influential role combines clinical excellence, education, governance and service-wide collaboration to deliver best-practice infection prevention outcomes.

About you:

You are a passionate and experienced infection prevention professional who thrives on improving patient safety, influencing best practice and leading quality healthcare outcomes across diverse clinical environments. You will have:

• Extensive expertise in Infection Prevention and Control, with strong knowledge of national standards and contemporary evidence-based practice.
• Proven ability to provide advanced clinical leadership, consultancy and support to multidisciplinary teams.
• Experience coordinating infection surveillance programs, managing occupational exposure incidents and driving quality improvement initiatives.
• Highly developed communication and education skills, with the ability to deliver effective training and influence positive practice change.
• Collaborative and proactive approach, building strong relationships with clinicians, leaders and stakeholders to achieve outstanding patient and service outcomes.

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.

Redland Hospital:

Redland Hospital is the major healthcare provider for adults and children across the Redlands Coast and Brisbane's southern bayside communities, delivering a comprehensive range of services including emergency care, acute and subacute medicine, surgery, maternity, paediatrics, primary health, minor injury care and mental health services.

As our growing and diverse community continues to expand, so do the opportunities at Redland Hospital. Significant investment in new facilities, additional beds and expanded services is creating exciting career pathways, professional development opportunities and the chance to make a meaningful impact on community health.

Join a growing metropolitan hospital where you can build a rewarding long-term career while enjoying the supportive, close-knit culture of a team that values its people and the difference they make every day.

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.

• Application essentials - things you need to know (PDF)
  
  We are MSH - five reasons why you should join us (PDF)
  
  MS06685307 Role Description (PDF)