Make a difference beyond the hospital walls, lead the delivery of exceptional care in the community.

This role is a frontline role that provides essential frontline services. Join Metro South Health's Acute Care@Home team as a Clinical Nurse, where you will use your advanced clinical expertise and leadership skills to deliver high-quality, person-centred care to patients in the comfort of their own homes.

Job details

Your new role:

As a Clinical Nurse with Acute Care@Home, you will provide expert clinical leadership and coordinate the delivery of high-quality, person-centred acute and post-acute nursing care to patients in their own homes and community settings. You will:

• Apply advanced clinical assessment, critical thinking and problem-solving skills to manage patients with complex care needs, ensuring safe, effective and individualised care.
• Provide clinical leadership, direction and support to nursing staff, contributing to care coordination, clinical decision-making and effective service delivery.
• Drive quality improvement, risk management and evidence-based practice, contributing to clinical audits, research initiatives and the ongoing development of service standards.

About you:

You are an experienced and motivated nursing professional with advanced clinical capabilities and a passion for delivering high-quality care in community and acute care settings. You will bring:

• Demonstrated advanced clinical knowledge and experience in community nursing, acute and post-acute care, including the assessment, planning and management of complex patient needs.
• Highly developed clinical leadership, critical thinking and problem-solving skills, with the ability to coordinate care, provide direction and support effective teamwork.
• Well-developed communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build collaborative relationships with patients, families, medical practitioners and multidisciplinary teams.

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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 AC@H service is part of the Metro South Health@Home Service. The AC@H service provides acute and post-acute care to patients in the home or in a community setting. Care and services provided include Hospital in the Home (HITH), cytotoxic injections, time limited post-acute care and longer term intravenous antibiotic administration. The AC@H service operates from four hospital hubs aligned to and servicing the Princess Alexandra, QEII, Logan and Redland Hospitals in the MSH.   

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)
  
  We are MSH - five reasons why you should join us (PDF)
  
  MS11696467 (PDF)