Take the Lead in Specialist Respiratory Services at PAH

An exciting leadership opportunity awaits an experienced nursing professional to lead & coordinate specialist respiratory outpatient and tuberculosis services at Princess Alexandra Hospital

Job details

This role is a frontline role that provides essential frontline services

Your new role:

As Nurse Unit Manager, you will provide advanced clinical and operational leadership, supporting a skilled multidisciplinary team to deliver safe, effective and patient centred care while driving service performance and continuous improvement. In this role, you will:

• Provide strategic and operational leadership across specialist respiratory outpatient and tuberculosis services, promoting contemporary clinical practice, patient safety and positive patient outcomes.
• Lead workforce, financial and resource management, including staff development, performance management, rostering and budget oversight.
• Drive quality improvement, clinical governance, education and evidence-informed practice, building a positive team culture and supporting the ongoing development of nursing services.

About you:

You are an experienced nursing leader with strong clinical knowledge, a collaborative leadership style and the ability to inspire and motivate a team. You bring sound operational and business management skills, alongside a commitment to delivering high quality, person centred care and improving specialist healthcare services. You will demonstrate:

• Proven experience leading teams, managing workforce and financial resources, and delivering effective outpatient or ambulatory services, with strong skills in rostering, performance management and service improvement.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder engagement and change management skills, with the ability to build a positive team culture, support professional development and drive quality, evidence-informed clinical practice.
• Demonstrated ability to lead clinical governance, quality assurance and service improvement initiatives, using data, performance indicators and patient outcomes to identify opportunities and enhance service delivery.

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What we can offer you:

• 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

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• Application essentials - things you need to know (PDF)
  
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  MS12696720_Role Description (PDF)