Lead Complex Aged Care with Clinical Expertise

Join CAREPACT at Princess Alexandra Hospital as a Clinical Nurse Consultant and provide advanced clinical leadership across gerontology, aged care and emergency care.

Job details

Your new role:

As a Clinical Nurse Consultant with CAREPACT, you will provide advanced clinical expertise across gerontology and emergency care while working collaboratively with residential aged care, hospital and multidisciplinary teams. You will:

• Provide expert assessment, clinical consultancy and advanced nursing care for older people with complex needs
• Support clinical triage, recognition of deterioration and escalation across CAREPACT services
• Provide specialist advice and leadership across the Emergency Support Line, Mobile Emergency Team and Hospital Inreach
• Lead education, mentoring, quality improvement, clinical governance and evidence based practice

About you:

You are an experienced Registered Nurse with advanced clinical capability and a strong interest in gerontology and emergency care. You bring sound clinical judgement, confident communication and a commitment to person centred care, while supporting colleagues to deliver safe and contemporary practice. You will have:

• Advanced clinical assessment, critical thinking and decision making
• Specialist knowledge of complex geriatric and acute presentations
• Strong clinical leadership, communication, coaching and collaboration
• Commitment to evidence based practice, quality improvement and professional development

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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)
  
  MS10692857 Role Description (PDF)
  
  We are MSH - five reasons why you should join us (PDF)