Lead Surgical Nursing Excellence at a Strategic Level in Princess Alexandra Hospital.

Lead strategic nursing initiatives, drive clinical excellence, and deliver impactful change across surgical services in a senior leadership role.

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Your new role:

As a Nurse Manager within the Division of Surgery, you will play a pivotal leadership role driving strategic initiatives, clinical excellence, and service improvement across a complex healthcare environment. Working closely with senior leaders, you will influence outcomes through innovation, collaboration, and evidence-based practice.

You will:

• Lead and deliver divisional projects and clinical redesign initiatives
• Drive quality improvement, benchmarking, and patient outcome optimisation
• Provide expert advice on resource management and service delivery
• Support strategic and operational planning across the division
• Lead change management and continuous improvement activities

About you:

You are an experienced and forward-thinking nursing leader with strong strategic, clinical, and operational expertise. You thrive in complex environments and are passionate about driving innovation and improving patient outcomes.

You bring:

• Proven experience in senior nursing leadership or management roles
• Strong clinical knowledge within surgical or acute care settings
• Demonstrated success in leading change and service improvement
• Advanced problem-solving, decision-making, and critical thinking skills
• Experience in resource management, including workforce and finance

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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 Princess Alexandra Hospital is a major teaching and referral centre and one of the largest hospitals in Australia and one of the largest providers of surgical services in the country.  The surgical division incorporates peri-operative services, acute inpatient surgical units and surgical ambulatory care 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.

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