Drive Safe, Timely Emergency Surgery Care at Princess Alexandra Hospital

Join Princess Alexandra Hospital as the Unplanned Surgery Coordinator and provide expert clinical leadership across emergency surgical services. You will coordinate real-time surgical flow, support multidisciplinary decision-making and drive safe, timely access to unplanned surgery across one of Queensland’s largest tertiary perioperative services. This role is Temporary Part time until March 31st, 2027 (52 hours per fortnight).

Job details

Your new role:

As the Unplanned Surgery Coordinator, you will provide advanced clinical leadership and operational oversight for emergency surgery coordination across Princess Alexandra Hospital's perioperative services. Working collaboratively with surgical, anaesthetic, emergency and patient flow teams, you will support safe, equitable and timely access to unplanned surgery while contributing to statewide surgical reform initiatives. Key Responsibilities:

• Coordinate and oversee unplanned surgery workflow and escalation processes in real time
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to optimise patient readiness and theatre flow
• Support prioritisation and decision-making for urgent and emergency surgical cases
• Lead quality improvement, clinical governance and patient safety initiatives

About you:

You are an experienced perioperative nurse leader with advanced clinical knowledge, strong operational awareness and a passion for improving patient outcomes within complex surgical environments. You Will Bring:

• Advanced perioperative nursing experience within acute or tertiary healthcare settings
• Strong leadership, communication and stakeholder engagement skills
• Proven ability to coordinate complex clinical workflows and manage escalation pathways
• Commitment to evidence-based practice, patient safety and continuous improvement

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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 (PAH) is a tertiary health care centre providing care in most major adult specialties. We provide world class health care to Brisbane City's southern suburbs across emergency, medical, mental health and surgical services, including liver and kidney transplant.

We are nationally recognised for our expertise in trauma management and organ transplants and are one of Australia's leading academic and research health centres. The PAH as a major medical research precinct hosts Australia's most advanced medical research facility, the Translational Research Institute (TRI) as well as a new Clinical Research Facility for the discoveries made at TRI to be trialed in a safe clinical environment.

We're expanding our hospital to make sure everyone gets the care they need. We're adding more beds, modernising our buildings, and improving our spaces to treat kidney and cancer patients with all new services and facilities planned to open by 2027.

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)
  
  MS06684061 Role Description (PDF)
  
  We are MSH - five reasons why you should join us (PDF)