Clinical Nurse - Geriatric Emergency Department Initiative (Gedi)

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

The Clinical NurseGeriatric Emergency Department Initiative (CN GEDI) role provides advanced clinical and problem-solving skills, expert planning, and coordination skills in the clinical management of geriatric patients/residents/clients with complex care needs in the Emergency Department (ED), ensuring quality standards are met. This role works autonomously within the healthcare team structure and is pivotal in the planning, managing, and delivering of geriatric and emergency specialist nursing care. The CN GEDI provides clinical leadership for professional and clinical practice, education, and research. The role supports in management activities including portfolio responsibilities.

Specifically, the role will:

• Deliver specialist clinical gerontic nursing within the ED for older patients identified as frail including those over the age of 75 years of age and 55 years of age for patients who identify as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander.
• Facilitate the early identification and coordination of care for geriatric patients presenting to the ED (excluding CARE-PACT patients).
• Conduct timely assessment, intervention and documentation of frailty, geriatric indicators, and goals of care.
• Co-ordinate care including managing inter-professional communication, client/carer communication and care planning of the elderly within the ED.
• Identify barriers/delays to discharge and intervene as required to limit unnecessary time spent in the ED.
• Collect, analyse, and report data (including clinical care delivery) and benchmarking with like roles and facilities.
• Participates and collaborates with GEDI nursing roles at other facilities and the Metro South HHS GEDI Clinical Nurse Consultant.

Find out about the role in more detail and how to apply in the attached Role Description.

Our ICARE² 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

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.