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Clinical Nurse
South Brisbane
The Clinical Nurse (CN) role provides advanced clinical and problem-solving skills, expert planning and coordination skills in the clinical management of patients/residents/clients with complex care needs, ensuring quality standards are met.
Job details
| Position status | Permanent |
|---|---|
| Position type | Part-time |
| Occupational group | Health - Nursing |
| Classification | Nurse Grade 6 (1) |
| Workplace Location | Brisbane Inner City,Brisbane - South |
| Job ad reference | QLD/H26CHQ689757 |
| Closing date | 24-Aug-2026 |
| Job duration | 6-12 months |
| Contact person | Aimee Read |
| Contact details | 0488759480 Access the National Relay Service |
About the Team
The Queensland Children's Hospital (QCH) Operating Room Suite (ORS) is a fourteen (14) theatre suite, including a dedicated Cardiac Catheter Laboratory and Gastroenterology theatre. Our unit is a fast-paced environment, requiring collaboration between a broad range of multidisciplinary teams to provide exemplary perioperative care to patients and their families. Our team participate in a full roster, including shift length variations of up to ten hours across a 24/7 service. This may include the requirement to participate in on-call services.
About the Role
The Clinical Nurse (CN) role provides advanced clinical and problem-solving skills, expert planning and coordination skills in the clinical management of patients/residents/clients with complex care needs, ensuring quality standards are met. This role works autonomously within the Healthcare Team structure and is pivotal in the planning, managing and delivering of specialist paediatric perioperative nursing care within Gastroenterology.
The portfolio of Gastroenterology includes the overseeing the provision of surgical care within the ORS environment and may extend to other specialties as required.
Your contribution will include:
Domain 1: Direct comprehensive care or provision of direct care
- Accountable for Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA) and own standards, actions and the outcomes of own nursing practice, professional advice given and for activities delegated.
Domain 2: Support of Systems
- Adhere to established guidelines, protocols, procedures, standards, and systems of work as set out by the Operating Suite unit, CHQHHS and Department of Health, Queensland.
Domain 3: Education
- Act as a clinical and educational resource within an area based on knowledge, skills, and experience to inform evidence-based practice.
Domain 4: Research
- Integrate advanced theoretical knowledge, evidence from a range of sources and own experience to devise and achieve agreed care outcomes for patients/residents/clients in line with organisational priorities.
Domain 5: Professional Leadership
- Act as a clinical leader, with integrity, transparency and accountability.
About Children's Health Queensland Hospital and Health Service (CHQ HHS)
Children's Health Queensland is a recognised leader in paediatric healthcare, teaching and research, delivering a full range of clinical services and training, tertiary and quaternary care and health promotion programs to children and young people from across Queensland and northern New South Wales.
Inclusion and diversity
To encourage inclusive practices in recruitment, we are committed to increasing our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workforce and building inclusive cultures that respect and promote human rights and Workforce Diversity and Inclusion. CHQ is an equal opportunity employer.
Some of the great benefits of working at CHQ HSS
If you're looking for a rewarding career, and you're excited to contribute to the development of Australia's best paediatric health service, come and join the team at CHQ and enjoy a range of benefits including:
- Opportunities for professional growth and development
- Competitive renumeration
- Annual pay increases
- 12.75% employer superannuation contribution
- 17.5% annual leave loading
- Salary packaging
- Employee wellness and assistance program
- Work/life balance, variety, and flexibility
You can find out more about why it's so great to work at CHQ HHS here.
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, Information Pack and Applicant Tool Kit for more information on application process requirements. Agency referrals will not be accepted for this position.
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