AddressThe Princess Alexandra Colorectal surgical unit are looking for a Clinical Nurse to join their team. This unit provides specialist surgery and care to Colorectal patients with a cancer diagnosis, inflammatory bowel disease and other colorectal conditions throughout the state of Queensland. The Queensland Peritonectomy Unit is managed by the Princess Alexandra Colorectal Unit and is the only provider of cytoreduction surgery and HIPEC for the residents of Queensland.
Metro South Health is Australia's first digital health service and one of the largest in Queensland, with an estimated residential population of approximately one million people or 23 per cent of Queensland's population.
This is your opportunity to join the dedicated team of professionals at Metro South Health and be part of a world-class, dynamic and growing health service that embraces technology, excellence in health care, teaching, research and empowering our people to be the best in serving our community.
About the Role
- Responsible for actively contributing to the Colorectal Unit outcomes and performance indicators for the Colorectal Service.
- Utilise knowledge and critical judgement to manage/change the nursing model or other relevant model of care to better suit the staff skill-mix and/or patient acuity e.g. individual patient allocation to team nursing.
- Demonstrate advanced experience in clinical and outpatient management of patient care within resources, demonstrating problem solving expertise to ensure quality standards are maintained.
- Demonstrate application of advanced clinical leadership through effective delegation, communication, problem solving and critical thinking.
Find out about the role in more detail and how to apply in the attached Role Description.
Our values of Integrity, Compassion, Accountability, Respect, Engagement and Excellence, shape our culture within Metro South Health. Our values guide our day-to-day decision making and are fundamental to what we care about as a health service, how we behave, how we interact with each other and provide care to the many patients who come through our doors every day.
We offer rewarding career opportunities across a wide range of clinical and non-clinical areas across our health service and pride ourselves on providing a work environment that is safe, satisfying, flexible, and promotes a healthy work-life balance.
As a Metro South employee, you will benefit from a higher than standard employer contribution to Superannuation of up to 12.75%, access to salary packaging, flexible working arrangements and competitive salary rates with annual incremental increases.
Eligible health workers may qualify for a Workforce Attraction Incentive payment. To find out more and see if you are eligible visit: https://www.healthycareers.health.qld.gov.au/attraction-incentives ( https://www.healthycareers.health.qld.gov.au/attraction-incentives )
You can find out more about why it's so great to work at Metro South here: www.metrosouth.health.qld.gov.au/join-our-team ( http://www.metrosouth.health.qld.gov.au/join-our-team ).
