Lead patient flow and deliver exceptional nursing care!

Join the QEII Transit Lounge team as a Clinical Nurse and play a pivotal role in supporting patient flow and delivering high-quality, person-centred care. Bring your clinical expertise and leadership skills to a varied and fast-paced environment, coordinating complex patient care and supporting timely hospital transfers and discharges. We are seeking a motivated nursing professional who thrives on collaboration, problem-solving and improving patient outcomes.

Job details

Your new role:

As a Clinical Nurse in our Transit Lounge, you will provide clinical leadership and coordinate safe, person-centred patient care while supporting efficient hospital flow, transfers and discharges.

In this role, you will:

• Coordinate clinical assessment, care planning and nursing care for patients with complex needs.
• Lead, support and mentor nursing staff to promote safe practice and effective teamwork.
• Facilitate patient flow, hospital discharges, transfers and patient transport arrangements.
• Contribute to quality improvement, clinical audits and evidence-based practice.

About you:

You are an experienced Registered Nurse with strong clinical knowledge, leadership skills and the ability to coordinate patient care in a fast-paced hospital environment.

To be successful, you will demonstrate:

• Clinical expertise: Advanced assessment, critical thinking and problem-solving skills in medical and surgical nursing.
• Leadership: Ability to lead, support and coordinate nursing teams through effective communication and delegation.
• Patient flow: Experience coordinating patient transfers and discharges, with knowledge of RAFT, QAS and NuPT bookings highly regarded.
• Quality improvement: Commitment to evidence-based practice, clinical education and continuous 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 Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Hospital:

The Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Hospital (QEII) is a medium metropolitan adult facility providing a range of inpatient and outpatient services including a 24-hour Emergency Department. We provide a range of services, including surgery, cardiology, endoscopy, orthopaedics, gynaecology, urology, geriatric, respiratory and emergency medicine.

We're making our hospital bigger and better to make it easier for our growing community to get the health care they need. We'll have more beds, medical wards and expanded intensive care and emergency services planned to be opened by 2027.

QEII Hospital, a place of opportunity to make a difference and grow your career!

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)
  
  We are MSH - five reasons why you should join us (PDF)
  
  MS11696647 Role Description (PDF)