Drive Clinical Leadership and Quality Care in a Dedicated Palliative Care Unit

Temporary Full-Time opportunity for an experienced Nurse Unit Manager to lead the Palliative Care Unit at Logan Hospital, delivering compassionate, patient-centred care within Metro South Health.

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Your new role:

As the Nurse Unit Manager – Palliative Care, you will provide advanced clinical and operational leadership to ensure the delivery of safe, compassionate and evidence-based care within Logan Hospital's dedicated 14-bed Palliative Care Unit by:

• Leading and coordinating multidisciplinary teams to deliver high-quality patient-centred palliative care
• Managing human, financial and material resources to support effective and efficient service delivery
• Driving clinical excellence, quality improvement initiatives and accreditation readiness
• Supporting workforce development, succession planning and a positive team culture
• Ensuring compliance with professional standards, clinical governance frameworks and NSQHS Standards
• Building strong relationships with patients, families, carers and healthcare stakeholders
• Leading innovation, service improvement and evidence-based practice initiatives across the unit

About you:

You are a compassionate and experienced nursing leader with advanced clinical expertise in palliative care and a strong commitment to delivering exceptional patient outcomes with:

• Current registration as a Registered Nurse with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA)
• Extensive senior nursing leadership experience within palliative care or a related specialty area
• Demonstrated ability to lead and develop high-performing multidisciplinary teams
• Strong operational management skills including workforce, budget and resource management
• Advanced communication, negotiation and stakeholder engagement capabilities
• Proven experience driving quality improvement, patient safety and clinical governance outcomes
• A commitment to evidence-based practice, education, mentoring and professional development
• Postgraduate qualifications in palliative care, leadership or a related field highly regarded

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What we can offer you:

• 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.
• The opportunity to lead within a respected and growing specialist palliative care service
• Career development opportunities across one of Queensland's largest public health services
• Access to flexible working arrangements that support work-life balance
• A collaborative and inclusive workplace culture that values diversity and innovation
• Opportunities to contribute to research, quality improvement and service development initiatives

Logan Hospital:

Logan Hospital is the major health centre for one of the fastest growing areas in Queensland. We offer a range of services, including medical, rehabilitation, maternity, surgical and paediatric care.

We offer our staff and students extensive support and training in most medical specialties. As a teaching hospital, we help train future health care professionals and participate in research through strong partnerships with Queensland's leading medical schools, universities, and TAFE Queensland.

Our services will continue to grow as we build bigger and better facilities to support the community. By 2027, we'll have more beds and 5 more birthing suites as part of the Logan Hospital expansion.

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)
  
  We are MSH - five reasons why you should join us (PDF)
  
  MS05682500_Role Description (PDF)