Lead Specialist Surgical Care in a High-Performing Team

An exciting opportunity for an experienced Clinical Nurse to provide expert patient-centred care, clinical leadership and education in a specialised surgical environment.

Job details

Your new role:

As the Clinical Nurse within Ward 1D, you will provide advanced clinical care and leadership across ENT, Plastics, Burns and Maxillofacial specialties within a fast-paced tertiary surgical unit.  In this role you will:

• Deliver advanced clinical nursing care for patients with complex surgical needs
• Provide leadership, guidance and support to nursing and multidisciplinary team members
• Coordinate patient care and contribute to safe, high-quality clinical outcomes
• Support education, mentoring and professional development within the team

About you:

You are a confident and compassionate Clinical Nurse with strong surgical nursing experience and a commitment to delivering exceptional patient-centred care in a collaborative team environment. You will bring:

• Advanced clinical knowledge within ENT, Plastics, Burns or Maxillofacial nursing
• Strong leadership, communication and clinical decision-making skills
• Experience supporting staff development, education and team collaboration
• A commitment to quality improvement, safety standards and evidence-based practice

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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

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)
  
  MS06684241 Role Description (PDF)