The Clinical Nurse (CN) role provides advanced clinical and problem-solving skills, expert planning and coordination skills in the clinical management of families ensuring quality standards are met.

About The Team The Child Health Service (CHS) provides universal, multidisciplinary primary community health care services for children from birth to 8 years who reside in the catchment area for the Child and Youth Community Health Service (CYCHS), CHQ. The service seeks to achieve positive early childhood health and development outcomes through surveillance and monitoring of child growth and development and addressing family areas of concern using an early intervention, relationship-based framework, to reduce and minimize the impact of risk factors and strengthen parents/carers' capacity to support their child's ongoing health and development needs.

About The Role The Clinical Nurse (CN) role provides advanced clinical and problem-solving skills, expert planning and coordination skills in the clinical management of families ensuring quality standards are met. This role works autonomously within the Healthcare Team structure and is pivotal in the planning, managing and delivering of child health nursing care. The CN provides clinical leadership for professional and clinical practice, education and research.

The role supports in management activities including portfolio responsibilities.

Autonomy

Practices autonomously.

Provides leadership in clinical decision making to give and/or coordinate care to particular clients.

Assumes responsibility for professional leadership for a ward, service or unit in the absence of the Nurse Grade 7 (NG7).

Applies critical thinking across all the domains.

Your Contribution Will Include

Domain 1: Direct comprehensive care or provision of direct care Domain 2: Support of Systems Domain 3: Education Domain 4:



Research Domain 5: Professional Leadership 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. Our interprofessional workforce of more than 5,000 people deliver responsive, integrated and internationally recognised person-centred care through a network of services and facilities, including the Queensland Children's Hospital , Jacaranda Place, Ellen Barron Family Centre, our Child and Youth Community Health Service , our Child and Youth Mental Health Service , and other statewide services and programs including specialist outreach and telehealth services. 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 Perks If you're looking for a rewarding career, and you're excited to contribute to the development of Australia's best paediatric health service, 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 . Occupational group Health - Nursing

📌 Clinical Nurse (Brisbane)
🏢 Children's Health Queensland Hospital and Health Service
📍 Brisbane