Lead innovative aged care emergency services and shape the future of nursing across Metro South Health.

Provide strategic nursing leadership across one of Queensland's most innovative aged care emergency services. Lead a high-performing team, influence models of care across 96 residential aged care facilities, and drive excellence in patient outcomes, clinical governance and workforce capability

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Your new role:

Provide operational and professional nursing leadership for a unique service that delivers timely emergency care to residents of aged care facilities across Metro South Health. Working collaboratively with emergency departments, residential aged care providers, general practitioners and multidisciplinary teams, you'll influence healthcare delivery well beyond the walls of the hospital. In this role you will:

• Lead clinical governance, operational performance and service improvement across CAREPACT (Comprehensive Aged Residential Emergency & Partners in Assessment, Care and Treatment).
• Drive innovative models of care that improve access, quality and patient outcomes for older people.
• Build strong partnerships while leading workforce development, strategic planning and financial management.

About you:

You're an experienced and inspirational nursing leader who is passionate about improving healthcare for older people. You thrive in complex environments, bring a collaborative leadership style, and have the ability to translate strategy into meaningful clinical outcomes. You'll bring:

• Proven experience leading nursing services, clinical governance and organisational change.
• Strong strategic, financial and operational management skills, including performance and workforce planning.
• Exceptional communication and stakeholder engagement skills with the ability to build partnerships across healthcare settings.

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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.

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)
  
  MS07687894 - Role Description (PDF)