Clinical Nurse - Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO)

Lead specialist care. Shape excellence in ECMO nursing.

Join the Intensive Care Unit at Princess Alexandra Hospital as a Clinical Nurse – ECMO and provide expert, specialised nursing care to complex ECMO patients. This is an opportunity to use your advanced clinical expertise, leadership and critical thinking in one of Australia’s leading adult tertiary specialist ICUs, while contributing to education, research and service improvement.

Your new role:

As a Clinical Nurse – ECMO, you will provide advanced clinical, problem-solving, planning and coordination skills in the management of complex Intensive Care ECMO patients. Working autonomously within a highly skilled multidisciplinary team, you will provide specialist nursing care and clinical leadership across practice, education and research.

You will:

- Deliver expert, person-centred nursing care to complex Intensive Care and ECMO patients.
- Provide clinical leadership, support and direction to the healthcare team, including delegation, mentoring and education.
- Contribute to ECMO service development, quality improvement, research and portfolio responsibilities, including ECMO databases and ECMO Retrieval support.

About you:

You are an experienced critical care nurse with advanced clinical knowledge and demonstrated expertise in ECMO nursing. You bring strong clinical judgement, problem-solving and leadership skills, together with a commitment to evidence-based practice, education and continuous improvement.

You will bring:

- Mandatory experience caring for ECMO patients and completion of ECMO competency.
- Advanced Intensive Care and ECMO clinical skills, with the ability to manage complex patient care and provide effective clinical leadership.

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:

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 recent 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.

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📌 Clinical Nurse - Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) (Brisbane City)
🏢 Queensland Health
📍 Brisbane City