Advance Your Career in Cardiothoracic Nursing

Join our 28-bed Cardiothoracic Unit providing specialist care to cardiothoracic surgery, cardiology and complex surgical patients. As a Clinical Nurse, you will provide expert clinical leadership, coordinate patient care, support staff development and contribute to quality improvement initiatives in a dynamic tertiary referral environment. This role is Permanent part- time or Temporary Part-time upto 6 months, 32 to 64 hours per fortnight.

Job details

Your new role:

As a Clinical Nurse within our Cardiothoracic Unit, you will provide advanced clinical care and leadership to patients requiring cardiothoracic, cardiology and complex surgical nursing management. Working collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team, you will coordinate patient care, support clinical decision-making, mentor staff and contribute to quality improvement, education and research activities to achieve exceptional patient outcomes. Key responsibilities include:

• Delivering advanced clinical assessment, care planning and coordination
• Providing clinical leadership, support and guidance to nursing staff
• Leading safe, evidence-based practice and quality improvement activities
• Supporting education, clinical facilitation and professional development

About you:

You are a confident and experienced nursing professional who thrives in a fast-paced specialist environment and is passionate about delivering exceptional patient-centred care.

Skills and experience:

• Advanced clinical assessment and critical thinking skills
• Strong leadership, delegation and team coordination capability
• Excellent communication and multidisciplinary collaboration skills
• Commitment to quality improvement, education and evidence-based practice

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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 tertiary health care centre providing care in most major adult specialties. We provide world class health care to Brisbane City's southern suburbs across emergency, medical, mental health and surgical services, including liver and kidney transplant.

We are nationally recognised for our expertise in trauma management and organ transplants and are one of Australia's leading academic and research health centres. The PAH as a major medical research precinct hosts Australia's most advanced medical research facility, the Translational Research Institute (TRI) as well as a new Clinical Research Facility for the discoveries made at TRI to be trialed in a safe clinical environment.

We're expanding our hospital to make sure everyone gets the care they need. We're adding more beds, modernising our buildings, and improving our spaces to treat kidney and cancer patients with all new services and facilities planned to open by 2027.

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.

Documents

Before applying for this vacancy please ensure you read the documents below.

• Application essentials - things you need to know (PDF)
  
  MS06685443 Role Description (PDF)
  
  We are MSH - five reasons why you should join us (PDF)