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Associate Nurse Unit Manager
Wooloongabba
Shape the Future of Specialist Outpatient Services in Princess Alexandra Hospital.
Join the Specialist Outpatient Department at Princess Alexandra Hospital as an Associate Nurse Unit Manager and play a pivotal role in delivering exceptional ambulatory care. Working alongside the Nurse Unit Manager, you'll provide clinical leadership, support service delivery, optimise patient flow and mentor nursing teams while contributing to quality improvement and operational excellence in a dynamic surgical outpatient environment.
Job details
| Position status | Fixed Term Temporary |
|---|---|
| Position type | Flexible part-time |
| Occupational group | Health - Nursing |
| Classification | Nurse Grade 6 (2) |
| Workplace Location | Brisbane Inner City,Brisbane - South |
| Job ad reference | QLD/MS07686524 |
| Closing date | 08-Jul-2026 |
| Job duration | 10 months |
| Contact person | Schonnel Gosson |
| Contact details | (07) 3176 2031 Access the National Relay Service |
Your new role:
As the Associate Nurse Unit Manager, you will work in partnership with the Nurse Unit Manager to provide operational leadership and advanced clinical expertise within the Specialist Outpatient Department. This role combines hands-on clinical leadership with service management responsibilities to ensure safe, efficient and patient-centred care delivery across a busy ambulatory setting.
In this role you will:
- Support the day-to-day operational management of the Specialist Outpatient Department and maintain high standards of patient care and service delivery.
- Provide leadership, mentoring and clinical guidance to nursing staff while fostering a positive and collaborative team culture.
- Drive improvements in patient flow, clinic coordination and referral management to enhance the outpatient experience.
- Assist with workforce planning, rostering, leave management and succession planning activities.
About you:
You are an experienced Registered Nurse with a passion for ambulatory care and a desire to develop your leadership capability within a high-performing clinical environment. You thrive in fast-paced settings, enjoy supporting and developing others, and are committed to delivering outstanding patient-centred care.
To be successful you will bring:
- Demonstrated experience in ambulatory, outpatient or surgical nursing environments, with advanced clinical assessment and decision-making skills.
- Strong leadership capability with the ability to support, mentor and influence multidisciplinary teams.
- Excellent communication, stakeholder engagement and relationship management skills.
- Experience or interest in operational management including workforce planning, resource management and quality 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 Division of Surgery; Specialty Outpatient Department (SOPD) supports 21 tertiary referral specialty teams and their associated subspecialties in service provision for ambulatory care patients and services across two locations at the Princess Alexandra Hospital to include SOPD - Ground Floor C and Building 15, level 2.
Our specialist services include, Abdominal Wall Reconstruction, Acute Surgical Services (ASU), Allergy & Immunology; Breast & Endocrine (B&E), Cardiology, Colorectal, General Medicine, General Surgery, Haematology, Hepatobiliary (HPB), Liver Transplant, Neurology, Neurosurgery, Psychiatry, Rheumatology, TACE clinic, Urology, Upper GI, Vascular Medicine and Vascular Surgery.
As a department we align to Specialist Outpatients Services Implementation Standards (SOSIS) and the Metro South Outpatient Governance structure. SOPD emphasises the importance of networking and collaboration through delivering excellence in service delivery while achieving patient centred care.
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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