Lead Emergency Care at Princess Alexandra Hospital

Permanent Full-Time opportunity in a high-performing tertiary Emergency Department. Lead teams, optimise resources and deliver safe, person-centred care in one of Queensland’s largest Emergency Departments..

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Your new role:

As the Associate Nurse Unit Manager you will play a pivotal role in ensuring safe, high-quality and cost-effective care while fostering a culture of professionalism, collaboration and continuous improvement. Key responsibilities include:

• Providing advanced clinical leadership and expert decision-making
• Coordinating staffing, rostering and resource allocation to meet acuity demands
• Leading and supporting nursing teams to deliver person-centred care
• Driving quality improvement initiatives, audits and clinical governance activities

About you:

You are a confident and experienced Emergency Department Registered Nurse ready to step into, or further develop within, an operational leadership role. You will demonstrate:

• Advanced clinical expertise in emergency nursing with strong critical thinking and problem-solving capability
• Proven leadership skills, including delegation, team coordination and managing complex clinical environments
• Operational capability, including rostering (IWFM), HR processes, resource management and KPI achievement
• Commitment to quality and continuous improvement, underpinned by evidence-based practice

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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:

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.

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

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• Application essentials - things you need to know (PDF)
  
  MS03676786 Role Description (PDF)
  
  We are MSH - five reasons why you should join us (PDF)