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Join a team dedicated to protecting patients, consumers and healthcare workers through excellence in infection prevention and control. Reporting across CHHHS facilities, you will provide expert leadership, advice and guidance to support compliance. This is an opportunity to make a meaningful impact on patient safety, workforce wellbeing, and healthcare quality through clinical leadership and innovation in infection prevention and control.

Cairns and Hinterland Hospital and Health Service covers an area of 142,900 square kilometres. We go as far as Tully in the south, Cow Bay in the north and Croydon in the west.

Working closely with the Clinical Nurse Consultant (Infection Prevention) and multidisciplinary teams, you will support and promote best-practice infection prevention and control across CHHHS. Acting as a key clinical resource, you will provide evidence-based advice, education and support to clinicians and stakeholders, contributing to safe, high-quality patient care and compliance. This role offers the opportunity to make a meaningful impact on patient safety, healthcare quality and infection prevention outcomes across the health service.

About your opportunity:

- Practice collaboratively and provide clinical leadership within the interdisciplinary health care team to promote the safety, security and personal integrity of individuals and groups.
- Demonstrate sound knowledge and application of relevant legislation, guideline and standards specifically relating to infection prevention.
- Clinical Nurse (CN)



provides an early leadership role within the career pathway for nursing within the Cairns and Hinterland Hospital and Health services and can function in more complex situations while providing support and direction.
- Undertake quality improvement and evidence-based practice activities to ensure the provision of quality, cost-effective patient care.
- Knowledge of quality improvement processes and activities and ability to apply validated research in ongoing improvements of clinical practice.
- Demonstrate evidence of increasing autonomous practice and greater levels of qualified judgement, influencing practice as a team member.

For more information about this role, please refer to the attached Role Description.

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Vaccine Preventable Diseases (VPD) evidence as required for your employment in accordance with legislation/government policy and Directives.

What we offer:

Cairns and Hinterland Hospital and Health service offer a number of workplace benefits. Besides attractive remuneration, generous superannuation, salary packaging and career development opportunities, we value a healthy work/life balance that allows you take advantage of the sunshine, hiking tracks, swimming spots, reef and rainforest.

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📌 Clinical Nurse (Infection Control) - Cairns
🏢 Queensland Health
📍 Cairns