Lead the Way in Chronic Disease Care - Make Every Patient Journey Count

Empower patients, connect care and drive better health outcomes.

Join Metro South

Health as a Nurse Navigator and use your advanced clinical expertise and leadership to transform the care journey for people living with complex chronic conditions.

Your New Role

As the Nurse Navigator within Chronic Disease, Community and Oral Health Services, you will provide advanced clinical leadership and coordinate person-centred care for adults with complex chronic conditions, supporting improved health outcomes and reducing avoidable hospital presentations and readmissions.

Key responsibilities include

- Coordinate complex patient care across primary, secondary and tertiary healthcare settings, building effective partnerships with patients, families, carers and multidisciplinary teams to ensure seamless care transitions.
- Apply advanced clinical judgement and specialist chronic disease knowledge to develop individualised care plans, promote health literacy and empower patients to actively participate in self-management and informed healthcare decisions.
- Lead service improvement initiatives, strengthen referral pathways and use evidence-based practice, research and data to enhance care coordination, clinical outcomes and service efficiency.

About you You Are An Experienced And Motivated Nursing Professional With Advanced Clinical Expertise, a Commitment To Person-centred Care And The Ability To Navigate Complex Healthcare Systems To Achieve Positive Outcomes For Patients Living With Chronic Disease.

You Will

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- Current registration as a Registered Nurse with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia and a tertiary qualification in nursing, with relevant postgraduate qualifications or evidence of enrolment highly desirable.
- Advanced knowledge and clinical experience in complex chronic disease management, contemporary nursing practice and the application of primary healthcare principles to improve patient outcomes.
- Demonstrated leadership, communication, negotiation and problem-solving skills, with the ability to build collaborative partnerships, coordinate multidisciplinary care and influence service improvement across organisational boundaries.

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 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 Community And Oral Health Services Community and Oral Health Services deliver a broad range of quality community-based care and support services to help people improve and maintain their wellbeing and independence as well as oral health services to adults and children. We deliver a myriad of services across Metro South including Hospital in the Home, Rehabilitation, Chronic Disease, Acute Care, Dementia Outreach, Oral Health, and specialist residential care along with delivering numerous other vital community health services.

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 significant 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 .

Occupational group Health - Nursing

📌 Nurse Navigator Generalist Community (Queensland)
🏢 Metro South Health
📍 Queensland