Make the move. Make a difference.

Work collaboratively to make a difference.

As the Clinical Nurse Consultant, Rapid Access Medical Services (RAMS), you will make a meaningful difference to adults with complex and chronic health conditions. Working alongside Medical Officers and multidisciplinary teams, you will provide advanced clinical leadership, assessment, triage and care coordination. Through telehealth, face-to-face consultations and case management, you will help patients access timely specialist care and achieve improved health outcomes across hospital and community settings.

COMPASSION | ACCOUNTABILITY | INTEGRITY | RESPECT

About us:

Rapid Access Medical Services (RAMS) is an initiative to facilitate alternative pathways to specialist care, enabling rapid access to physician input. The goals are to enhance patient experience, reduce emergency presentations and length of stay, to alleviate the burden of unplanned admissions. RAMS provides rapid assessments and early specialist consultations to support diagnosis, treatment, and onward care whether that be admission or redirection to alternate community pathways to clients with a range of complex chronic diseases and operates out of Cairns Hospital.

These services also work to address unplanned medical admissions and support to a cohort of the community requiring step up care from GP that does not necessitate a presentation to Emergency Department.

We're committed to improving the health and wellbeing of people in Far North Queensland by providing high quality acute health care services.

About you:

In your new role you will....

- Conduct comprehensive assessment at time of initial contact by applying problem-solving and critical thinking skills in the provision of complex care.




- Triage and escalate care through urgent and non-urgent pathways to achieve best practice outcomes.
- Lead the application and evaluation of contemporary human, material and financial resource management including monitoring occasions of service, referral volumes, and patient-reported outcomes to measure service effectiveness.
- Develop and encourage a learning environment by mentoring and promoting team development and individual capacity building.
- Educate and train in collaboration with the nursing education unit, nursing staff, patients, and their families about health conditions, treatments, and care plans.

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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Documents

Before applying for this vacancy please ensure you read the documents below.

- CAH696684 Role Description (PDF)

CHHHS Application Kit (PDF)

CHHHS Information for applicants (PDF)

📌 Clinical Nurse Consultant, Rapid Access Medical Services - Cairns
🏢 Queensland Health
📍 Cairns