Lead Across Surgical and Specialist Services - Assistant Director of Nursing

Take the lead in shaping surgical and specialist outpatient services, influencing strategic direction and driving clinical excellence at Redland Hospital

Job details

This role is a frontline role that provides essential frontline services

Your new role:

An exciting leadership opportunity exists for an accomplished nursing professional to lead and shape the delivery of surgical and specialist outpatient services at Redland Hospital. As the Assistant Director of Nursing, you will provide strategic, operational and professional nursing leadership, driving clinical excellence, effective service delivery and positive patient outcomes across a diverse portfolio. In this influential position, you will:

• Provide contemporary operational and professional nursing leadership across Stradbroke Ward, Perioperative Services (including Endoscopy and Central Sterilising), Specialty Outpatients and the Infection Control team.
• Lead clinical and corporate governance, ensuring the delivery of safe, high-quality, person-centred care while driving service performance, continuous improvement and evidence-based models of care.
• Oversee workforce, financial and resource management, using data analysis, performance monitoring and effective business planning to achieve operational priorities and sustainable service delivery.
• Build a capable, engaged and high-performing nursing workforce through transformational leadership, staff development, stakeholder collaboration and the successful implementation of organisational change.

About you:

You are an accomplished and strategic nursing leader with a passion for delivering exceptional healthcare, developing people and driving innovation. You bring the clinical expertise, business acumen and collaborative leadership capabilities needed to influence service delivery and achieve outstanding outcomes across complex healthcare environments. To be successful in this role, you will demonstrate:

• Extensive contemporary nursing leadership and management experience, with specialist knowledge across surgical nursing, perioperative services, endoscopy, sterilising, specialist outpatients, infection control and patient flow.
• Highly developed strategic, operational and financial management capabilities, including experience in budget management, workforce planning, data analysis, performance reporting and the application of business planning frameworks.
• Exceptional interpersonal, communication, negotiation and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to influence, resolve complex challenges, manage competing priorities and lead organisational change.
• A strong commitment to clinical governance, evidence-based practice, research, continuous quality improvement and workforce development.

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.

Redland Hospital:

Redland Hospital is the major health centre for adults and children in the Redlands and Brisbane's southern bayside suburbs. We provide a range of services including emergency care, primary health and minor injury care, acute and subacute medicine, general surgery, maternity and paediatric, mental specialist outpatient and mental health care.

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.

• MS12696767 Role Description (PDF)
  
  Application essentials - things you need to know (PDF)
  
  We are MSH - five reasons why you should join us (PDF)