Join our dedicated team delivering expert elective surgery care and coordination!

Advance your nursing career with a collaborative team delivering expert elective surgery coordination and patient-centred care at QEII Hospital.

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Your new role:

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Clinical Nurse to join the Elective Surgery Access Team (ESAT) at QEII Jubilee Hospital, where you will play a pivotal role in coordinating and delivering high-quality, patient-centred elective surgery care and waitlist management.

• Provide advanced clinical leadership, care coordination and pre-operative planning for elective surgical patients with complex care needs.
• Manage and support patients throughout their pre-operative journey, ensuring timely access to surgery and achievement of National Elective Surgery Target (NEST) KPIs.
• Act as a senior clinical resource for nursing and administrative staff, supporting best practice, clinical decision-making, quality improvement and service delivery outcomes.
• Work collaboratively across multidisciplinary teams to optimise theatre planning, waitlist management, patient flow and safe, evidence-based care practices.

About you:

You are a motivated and experienced Registered Nurse with strong clinical leadership skills and a passion for delivering safe, compassionate and person-centred care within a complex healthcare environment.

• Demonstrated advanced clinical knowledge and experience in elective surgery planning, pre-operative care coordination and waitlist management practices.
• Proven ability to apply critical thinking, problem-solving and organisational skills to manage complex patient care and competing priorities effectively.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build collaborative relationships, mentor staff and contribute positively to team culture and service improvement.
• Commitment to evidence-based practice, continuous professional development, quality improvement and achieving high standards of patient care and organisational performance.

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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:

Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Hospital

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)
  
  MS05682860 Role Description (PDF)