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Clinical Nurse Movement Disorders Research
Woolloongabba
Lead Clinical Research in Movement Disorders Care in Princess Alexandra Hospital.
Lead clinical research in Movement Disorders, delivering expert care, advancing trials, and supporting patients in a dynamic, collaborative environment.
Job details
| Position status | Fixed Term Temporary |
|---|---|
| Position type | Part-time |
| Occupational group | Health - Nursing |
| Classification | Nurse Grade 6 (1) |
| Workplace Location | Brisbane Inner City,Brisbane - South |
| Job ad reference | QLD/MS04680641 |
| Closing date | 29-Apr-2026 |
| Job duration | 6 months |
| Contact person | Wendy Smibert |
| Contact details | (07) 3176 4880 Access the National Relay Service |
Your new role:
As a Clinical Nurse – Clinical Research, you will play a pivotal role in delivering specialist nursing care and coordinating clinical research within the Movement Disorders Unit. Working autonomously and collaboratively, you'll lead patient-centred care while ensuring research excellence, safety, and quality outcomes.
You'll be at the forefront of innovation—supporting clinical trials, advocating for participants and families, and driving best practice across clinical, education, and research domains.
Key responsibilities include:
- Lead and deliver advanced, person-centred care for complex patients
- Coordinate and manage clinical research participants and trials
- Ensure protocol compliance, data accuracy, and safety reporting
- Provide clinical leadership, mentoring, and team support
- Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams and external stakeholders
About you:
You are an experienced and confident clinical nurse with a passion for research, patient advocacy, and delivering high-quality care in a specialised environment. You thrive in complex settings and bring strong leadership, critical thinking, and collaboration skills.
What you bring:
- Experience in clinical research and trial coordination
- Strong understanding of Good Clinical Practice (GCP)
- Excellent clinical assessment, problem-solving, and decision-making skills
- Proven ability to work autonomously and lead within a team
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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 public movement disorder service at Princess Alexandra Hospital covers Metro South, the largest and most populous health district within Queensland. Our services at PA Hospital include two weekly movement disorders clinic, a deep brain stimulation program for movement disorders in Queensland and a state-wide Gamma knife service for lesioning surgery. Our movement disorder unit includes a clinical research program in the area of movement disorders and Functional Neurological Disorders.
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.
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