Lead Patient Flow Excellence | NUM Transit Lounge!

Join Metro South Health as a Nurse Unit Manager on a temporary part-time contract (up to 10 months), where you’ll lead patient flow and drive safe, efficient care in a fast-paced Transit Lounge environment.

Job details

Your new role:

As the Nurse Unit Manager (NUM) – Transit Lounge, you will lead a dynamic unit that plays a vital role in patient flow and hospital efficiency. You'll provide advanced clinical and operational leadership, ensuring safe, timely, and person-centred care.

In this role, you will:

• Lead and coordinate patient flow, discharge, and admissions processes
• Manage staffing, resources, and budget to optimise service delivery
• Drive quality improvement, safety, and best practice care outcomes
• Foster a positive team culture through leadership, coaching, and support

About you:

You are a confident and adaptable nursing leader with strong clinical expertise and a passion for improving patient flow and outcomes in a fast-paced environment.

You will bring:

• Proven leadership experience in acute or patient flow environments
• Strong skills in workforce management, rostering, and resource allocation
• Ability to lead change, drive performance, and influence outcomes
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills

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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 Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Hospital (QEII) is a medium metropolitan adult facility providing a range of inpatient and outpatient services including a 24-hour Emergency Department. We provide a range of services, including surgery, cardiology, endoscopy, orthopaedics, gynaecology, urology, geriatric, respiratory and emergency medicine.

We're making our hospital bigger and better to make it easier for our growing community to get the health care they need. We'll have more beds, medical wards and expanded intensive care and emergency services planned to be opened by 2027.

QEII Hospital, a place of opportunity to make a difference and grow your career!

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)
  
  MS04680403 Role Description (PDF)