Lead perioperative excellence as a Clinical Nurse Consultant in Toowoomba.
Use your advanced clinical expertise and leadership skills to support safe, efficient and high-quality surgical care while mentoring others, driving improvement and helping shape positive outcomes for patients, teams and the wider community.
What Your Day Could Look Like
As a Clinical Nurse Consultant – Operating Theatre, you'll help deliver outstanding surgical care across the region.
Working with a multidisciplinary team, you'll coordinate services, strengthen clinical practice and support safe, efficient patient outcomes.
Every Day, You'll Contribute By
Leading perioperative services to support safe, timely and effective surgical care.Partnering with clinicians and stakeholders to optimise theatre resources and service outcomes.Driving quality, safety and continuous improvement initiatives across the service.Mentoring and developing nursing staff to build capability and future leadership.
Let's talk about you!
You're a confident nursing leader who combines advanced clinical expertise with genuine care for people.
You make sound decisions in busy environments, build strong relationships and support others to succeed.
You're motivated by improving patient outcomes, advancing practice and contributing to a positive team culture.
Guided by compassion, integrity, dignity, courage and innovation, you're committed to making a meaningful difference every day.
Here's What Will Help You Thrive In This Role
Current registration as a Registered Nurse with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia.Strong perioperative nursing experience and advanced clinical knowledge.Proven ability to lead teams, manage change and foster collaboration.Experience applying quality, safety and risk management principles.
You'll stand out if you have postgraduate qualifications, or are working towards further study, and experience supporting education, workforce development or service improvement.




Most importantly, we're looking for someone passionate about perioperative care and committed to improving outcomes for patients, colleagues and community.
Why Join Darling Downs Health?
At Darling Downs Health, we care for over 300,000 people across our expansive region.
No matter where you live in our region, from Taroom in the north to Texas in the south, our purpose is to ensure accessible and sustainable care.
It's complex, challenging work that makes a real difference – and the career possibilities are endless.
Whether you're a doctor, nurse, allied health professional, facilities team member, or administrator, you'll see your impact firsthand.
Here, you'll find opportunities that simply don't exist elsewhere: the chance to lead initiatives, develop specialties, and embrace responsibilities that would take years to access in larger health services.
Darling Downs Health is where you can step up sooner, grow faster, and help shape the future of care across our region.
Your career at Darling Downs Health also comes with meaningful rewards:
Maximise your take‐home pay with salary packaging and generous leave entitlements.Enjoy flexible work arrangements that support balance and variety.Access professional development funding, study leave and explicit career pathways.Be part of a diverse and inclusive culture that values learning and collaboration.Take care of your wellbeing with EAP access, private health insurance discounts and the Fitness Passport.
For a full list of benefits, visit: Darling Downs Health Benefits
Your future is here.
Where are you?
If you're ready to make a meaningful impact and grow your career in a place that values people and purpose, we'd love to hear from you.
Click "Apply Now" to submit your application and upload the requested documents.
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📌 Clinical Nurse Consultant - Operating Theatre (Queensland)
🏢 Darling Downs Hospital & Health Service
📍 Queensland