Empower, Innovate and Lead Excellence in Surgical Nursing!

Take the next step in your nursing leadership journey with PA Hospital. You'll play a key role in leading and shaping high-performing surgical inpatient services at one of Australia's largest and most respected teaching hospitals!

Job details

Your new role:

As the Assistant Nursing Director, you'll provide strategic and operational leadership across the Division of Surgery at Princess Alexandra Hospital. You'll lead high performing nursing teams, drive innovation in care delivery, and ensure the highest standards of clinical excellence and governance.

• Lead and manage surgical inpatient services across multiple specialty areas including Orthopaedics, Neurosurgery, Liver/Renal Transplant, Urology, and more.
• Drive quality in patient care, safety, and service delivery through innovative nursing practice and governance.
• Champion workforce capability, education, and evidence-based practice to deliver person-centred care

About you:

You're a compassionate nursing leader who thrives in complex healthcare environments. With strong governance, communication, and clinical management skills, you inspire teams to achieve excellence in patient care and service delivery.

• Proven experience leading surgical or acute care multidisciplinary teams and managing operational performance.
• Skilled in clinical governance, workforce planning and strategic leadership across large-scale clinical services.
• Committed to fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.

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What we can offer you:

• 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 Princess Alexandra Hospital:

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.

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.

• MS11664978- Role Description (PDF, 499KB)
  Role Description
  
  Application essentials - things you need to know (PDF, 371KB)
  Information Package for Applicants
  
  We are MSH - five reasons why you should join us (PDF, 415KB)
  Information Package for Applicants