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Nurse Navigator Cairns
Cairns
The role of Nurse Navigator (Navigate Your Health) is to provide advanced clinical and professional practice, facilitate the safe and efficient patient journey across the care continuum by applying the Nurse Navigator key principals of coordinating patient centred care, creating partnerships, improving patient outcomes, and facilitating systems improvement.
Job details
| Position status | Contract,Temporary |
|---|---|
| Position type | Full-time |
| Occupational group | Health - Nursing |
| Classification | Nurse Grade 7 |
| Workplace Location | Cairns region |
| Job ad reference | QLD/H26CHQ695868 |
| Closing date | 11-Nov-2026 |
| Job duration | 6 months |
| Contact person | Lexi Shah |
| Contact details | 0436612908 Access the National Relay Service |
About the Role
In this role you will coach and support others to deliver for children, young people and families (Leader of Others) in accordance with the Children's Health Queensland Leadership Excellence Framework and the Queensland Public Service and the CHQ values.
Your contribution will include:
Domain 1: Direct comprehensive care or provision of direct care
- Accountable for Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA) and own standards, actions and the outcomes of own nursing practice, professional advice given and for activities.
- Responsible for providing safe, compassionate care, integrating the nursing Professional Practice Model, quality frameworks Planetree philosophy of caring for each patient's psychological, social, emotional, spiritual, and physical care needs. This supports achievement of best clinical practice and individualised patient care and outcomes.
Domain 2: Support of Systems
- Contribute to and integrate key objectives into service delivery from the Children's Health Queensland Strategic Plan and those of key internal/external partners.
- Adhere to, develop and evaluate established guidelines, protocols, procedures, standards and systems of work as set by the organisation.
Domain 3: Education
- Provide educational leadership and expertise, supporting a learning environment by mentoring and promoting team development opportunities to enhance and assure Person Centred Care.
Domain 4: Research
- Engage in quality initiative and research projects relevant to the improvement of the patient care journey.
- Utilise contemporary information, research evidence, personal knowledge and experience to support decision making.
Domain 5: Professional Leadership
- Provide a central point of communication, engagement and coordination for key partners involved in the individual patients care across primary, secondary and tertiary care providers utilising multi-modal communication pathways facilitating the patient focused care journey.
- Coordinate key partners engagement facilitating patient focused care enhancing health literacy and self-care management.
About Children's Health Queensland Hospital and Health Service (CHQ HHS)
Children's Health Queensland is a recognised leader in paediatric healthcare, teaching and research, delivering a full range of clinical services and training, tertiary and quaternary care and health promotion programs to children and young people from across Queensland and northern New South Wales.
Inclusion and diversity
To encourage inclusive practices in recruitment, we are committed to increasing our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workforce and building inclusive cultures that respect and promote human rights and Workforce Diversity and Inclusion. CHQ is an equal opportunity employer.
Some of the great benefits of working at CHQ HSS
Come and join the team at CHQ and enjoy a range of benefits including:
- Opportunities for professional growth and development
- Competitive renumeration
- Annual pay increases
- 12.75% employer superannuation contribution
- 17.5% annual leave loading
- Salary packaging
- Employee wellness and assistance program
- Work/life balance, variety, and flexibility
You can find out more about why it's so great to work at CHQ HHS here.
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, Information Pack and Applicant Tool Kit for more information on application process requirements. Agency referrals will not be accepted for this position.
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