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Clinical Nurse Consultant - Patient Safety Advisor
Woolloongabba
Make Patient Safety Your Impact
Lead meaningful change in patient safety at Princess Alexandra Hospital, using your clinical expertise to strengthen incident management, drive quality improvement and influence safer care across the organisation.
Job details
| Position status | Fixed Term Temporary |
|---|---|
| Position type | Full-time,Part-time |
| Occupational group | Health - Nursing |
| Classification | Nurse Grade 7 |
| Workplace Location | Brisbane - South |
| Job ad reference | QLD/MS09691467 |
| Closing date | 15-Sep-2026 |
| Job duration | Up to 12 months |
| Contact person | Karen Boch |
| Contact details | (07) 3176 2673 Access the National Relay Service |
Your new role:
As a Clinical Nurse Consultant – Patient Safety Advisor, you'll provide advanced clinical leadership and expert consultancy across clinical incident management, risk identification and quality improvement. You will:
- Analyse incident data, identify trends and provide advice on system-level improvement opportunities
- Support morbidity and mortality reviews and the Coronial Liaison Office
- Deliver patient safety education, mentoring and clinical consultancy
- Promote evidence-based practice, organisational learning and a safe and just culture
About you:
You are an experienced Registered Nurse who combines advanced clinical judgement with strong quality improvement, communication and leadership capabilities. You're confident working across multidisciplinary teams and passionate about using evidence, data and clinical insight to improve patient safety. You will have:
- Advanced clinical leadership and critical thinking
- Clinical incident management, RCA and HEAPS analysis
- Quality improvement, data analysis and evidence-based practice
- Highly developed communication, collaboration and influencing skills
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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.
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