Clinical Nurse – Lead, Coordinate & Make a Difference

Bring your advanced clinical nursing expertise and leadership skills to the Surgical Care Unit and Extended Stay Unit at Princess Alexandra Hospital. This is an opportunity to combine quality patient care with workforce coordination, education, clinical leadership and service improvement within a supportive and innovative environment.

About This Role

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As a Clinical Nurse you will work collaboratively with the Nurse Unit Manager to provide clinical, operational and human resource management support across the Surgical Care Unit and Extended Stay Unit. You will,

- Play a key role in coordinating the nursing workforce, supporting clinical excellence and contributing to education, research and continuous improvement.
- Support workforce planning, rostering, staffing, shift coordination and the effective use of resources to optimise service delivery.
- Lead and contribute to education, quality improvement, clinical audits, research and practice change while supporting the professional development of nursing staff.

About You You are an experienced Registered Nurse with advanced clinical knowledge, strong critical thinking and the ability to lead and coordinate care in complex situations. You will bring,

- Demonstrated advanced clinical and problem-solving skills, with experience managing complex surgical nursing care.
- Strong planning, coordination and communication skills, with the ability to support workforce and operational priorities.
- A demonstrated commitment to clinical leadership, education, quality improvement, evidence-based practice and developing others.





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 Us

Princess Alexandra Hospital 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.

📌 Clinical Nurse - Surgical Care Unit / Extended Stay Unit (Queensland)
🏢 Metro South Health
📍 Queensland