Advance Your Career as a Nurse Practitioner – Palliative Care

Shape the future of specialist palliative care through leadership, innovation and clinical excellence.

Job details

Your new role:

Join a highly respected multidisciplinary specialist palliative care team where you'll provide advanced clinical leadership, autonomous practice and person-centred care across hospital and community settings. You will:

• Deliver comprehensive assessment, diagnosis, treatment and ongoing management for patients with complex palliative care needs using advanced Nurse Practitioner scope of practice.
• Work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams to coordinate seamless patient journeys, improve outcomes and support patients, families and carers across acute, community and residential aged care settings.
• Lead evidence-based models of care, quality improvement initiatives, clinical governance activities and service innovation to enhance specialist palliative care delivery.
• Mentor, educate and support nursing and multidisciplinary colleagues while contributing to research, workforce development and continuous service improvement.

About you:

We're looking for an experienced and compassionate Nurse Practitioner who combines advanced clinical expertise with exceptional leadership and a commitment to delivering outstanding patient-centred care. You are:

• An endorsed Nurse Practitioner (NMBA) with a Master's qualification and significant advanced clinical experience in specialist palliative care.
• Experienced to work autonomously while collaborating effectively across multidisciplinary teams to manage complex clinical presentations.
• Passionate about leading innovation, improving healthcare systems and driving evidence-based practice, education and quality improvement.
• An engaging communicator with highly developed clinical judgement, leadership skills and the ability to build trusted relationships with patients, families, colleagues and external healthcare providers.

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.

Unit Profile

The Metro South Palliative Care Service (MSPCS) provides specialist palliative care utilising the model for population-based care developed by Palliative Care Australia. MCPCS provides direct care in the Canossa Palliative Care Unit and Wynnum Manly Palliative Care Unit (WMPCU), consultative and/or direct care of patients in all hospitals in the Metro South Hospital and Health Service and provides community-based specialist palliative care across the district. 

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 Metro South Health:

We are the major public healthcare provider for Brisbane's south side, Logan, Redlands, and the Scenic Rim operating five major hospitals and a range of community, specialty, and state-wide healthcare services.

We are bold, innovative, collaborative, inspiring. We save lives, change lives, and make the world a better place. We are part of and proud of the community we serve.

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.

• MS07688135 Role Description (PDF)
  
  Application essentials - things you need to know (PDF)
  
  We are MSH - five reasons why you should join us (PDF)