Lead Public Health Practice to Protect and Strengthen Our Community

Join the Metro South Public Health Unit and provide advanced clinical leadership in communicable disease prevention, surveillance and immunisation to improve population health outcomes across Metro South.

Job details

Your new role:

In this senior clinical role, you will provide advanced public health nursing expertise and leadership across communicable disease prevention, surveillance and response. Working collaboratively with multidisciplinary stakeholders, you will:

• Deliver expert clinical consultancy and leadership in communicable disease control and immunisation.
• Lead and support safe, evidence-based public health practice aligned to national and state guidelines.
• Contribute to outbreak management, surveillance, education and public health responses.
• Drive quality improvement, education, research and service development initiatives.

About you:

You are an experienced public health nurse with strong clinical leadership capability and a passion for protecting community health. You will bring:

• Advanced clinical knowledge and experience in public health and communicable disease nursing.
• Demonstrated leadership, consultation and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Strong critical thinking, decision-making and problem-solving capability.
• Commitment to evidence-based practice, quality improvement and professional development.

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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:

Community and Oral Health Services:

Community and Oral Health Services deliver a broad range of quality community-based care and support services to help people improve and maintain their wellbeing and independence as well as oral health services to adults and children.

We deliver a myriad of services across Metro South including Hospital in the Home, Rehabilitation, Chronic Disease, Acute Care, Dementia Outreach, Oral Health, and specialist residential care along with delivering numerous other vital community health services.

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.

• MS01672847 RD (PDF)
  
  Application essentials - things you need to know (PDF)
  
  We are MSH - five reasons why you should join us (PDF)