Enrolled Nurse Advanced Skills

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 Internal Medicine Unit is a group of 3 Medical Wards (5A, 5B and 5C) co-located on the 5th Floor of Building 1 at the Princess Alexandra Hospital. Ward 5C consists of 24 beds catering to general medical patients with acute illness or exacerbation and sub-specialties in Diabetes and Endocrinology and Medically Unstable Eating Disorder. Ward 5C offers a multidisciplinary approach to patient centred care. Evidenced based nursing practices with innovative models of care delivery are actively embraced and incorporated aimed at improving quality outcomes for its specific client population and staff. The ward therefore offers exciting leadership and management opportunities for clinical nurses wanting to contribute in a positive, proactive and safe nursing team environment.

The Enrolled Nurse Advanced Skills (ENAS) practices under predominantly indirect supervision of a Registered Nurse (RN); utilising advanced clinical skills to provide evidence based person centred care within Ward 5C. The ENAS applies their depth of knowledge, experience, and competence to effectively develop, provide and evaluate patient care, with regular communication and/or assistance from the RN.

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.

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.