Karuna Hospice Services is seeking a Nurse Practitioner Palliative Care to join our specialist community palliative care team. This is a unique opportunity to work within a multidisciplinary service dedicated to supporting people with life-limiting illness and their families to live well and die with dignity.

Working alongside our Medical Officer and specialist nursing team, you will play a key role in delivering advanced clinical care to patients in their homes across the Metro North region.

About Karuna

Karuna Hospice Services is a Brisbane-based not-for-profit organisation guided by Buddhist principles of compassion, humility and respect.

For over 30 years we have provided specialist community palliative care, grief and bereavement support, and carer services to individuals and families experiencing life-limiting illness.

Our service model is person-centred, holistic and multidisciplinary, supporting people to remain in their homes wherever possible.

About the Role

The Nurse Practitioner will provide advanced clinical leadership and specialist palliative care expertise, working collaboratively with the Medical Officer and nursing team to support patients with complex needs in the community.

Key responsibilities include:

Advanced Clinical Practice

- Conduct comprehensive assessment and diagnosis of complex palliative care needs.
- Lead management of complex symptoms, including pain, dyspnoea, delirium and nausea.
- Prescribe, monitor and evaluate treatment within Nurse Practitioner scope, including anticipatory prescribing and syringe driver management.




- Provide timely clinical intervention for patients with changing or deteriorating needs.
- Facilitate advance care planning and goals-of-care discussions.

Clinical Leadership and Collaboration

- Provide specialist consultation and clinical support to nursing staff and multidisciplinary team members.
- Lead interdisciplinary care planning and complex case review.
- Mentor and support capability development within the service.
- Collaborate effectively with GPs, hospitals, and community providers.

Service Development and Quality Improvement

- Contribute to clinical governance, quality improvement and service evaluation activities.
- Support the implementation of evidence-based practice & contemporary models of care.
- Participate in education, innovation and initiatives that improve access to specialist hospice and palliative care.
- Contribute to the development and review of clinical resources, policies and care pathways.

About You

- You are a highly experienced clinician who combines strong clinical judgement with compassion, collaboration and a commitment to person-centred care.




- You are comfortable working autonomously while contributing to a collaborative multidisciplinary team.
- You bring advanced palliative care knowledge and enjoy supporting other clinicians to build confidence in complex care.
- Masters of Nurse Practitioner or enrolled in same
- Endorsement as a Nurse Practitioner with AHPRA
- Demonstrated advanced practice experience in palliative and end-of-life care (minimum 3 years full time)
- Eligibility for a Medicare Provider Number and access to relevant MBS Nurse Practitioner items
- Eligibility to prescribe under the PBS
- Experience prescribing and managing Schedule 8 medications
- Advanced clinical assessment and decision-making capability
- Highly developed communication and interpersonal skills, including facilitating sensitive end-of-life discussions
- Commitment to delivering culturally safe, person-centred and inclusive care
- Current unrestricted Queensland driver’s licence
- Experience working in community-based specialist hospice/palliative care services
- Experience providing clinical education, supervision or mentorship
- Experience in quality improvement, service development or clinical governance

What We Offer

- The prospect to work within a highly respected specialist palliative care service
- A supportive multidisciplinary team environment
- Meaningful work supporting patients and families at a critical time in their lives
- Flexibility within a 0.6 FTE role
- Opportunities to contribute to service innovation and development
- Not-for-profit salary packaging

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📌 Nurse Practitioner Palliative Care (Brisbane City)
🏢 Karuna Hospice Services
📍 Brisbane City