Lead Daily Staffing & Patient Flow

Use your nursing leadership, workforce planning and analytical expertise to make a meaningful impact on patient flow and service delivery.

About This Role

Your new role

As Nurse Manager, Daily Staffing Allocations, you will provide operational leadership across nursing workforce allocation and patient flow, ensuring staffing resources are effectively matched to service demand. You will:

- Lead the Daily Staffing Allocations Team and optimise nursing workforce deployment
- Analyse staffing, patient flow and performance data to identify trends, risks and opportunities
- Provide expert advice to Nurse Unit Managers, senior nurses and executive stakeholders
- Lead quality improvement, workforce development and change initiatives

About You You are an experienced nursing leader who combines advanced clinical knowledge with strong workforce management, analytical and communication skills. You are confident making decisions in a complex environment and can build effective relationships across all levels of the organisation. You will have:

- Advanced nursing leadership and patient flow expertise
- Exceptional workforce planning, staffing allocation and analytical capability
- Strong communication, negotiation and change management skills
- Experience in rostering, IWFM, performance management and resource optimisation

Check out our quick tips and application essentials! 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 solid 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 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.

📌 Nurse Manager - Daily Staffing Allocations Team (Queensland)
🏢 Metro South Health
📍 Queensland