AddressJob details
Position status Fixed Term Temporary Position type Flexible part-time Occupational group Health - Nursing Classification Nurse Grade 7 Workplace Location Brisbane Inner City,Brisbane - South Job ad reference QLD/MS03546420 Closing date 04-Mar-2024 Yearly salary Fortnightly salary Total remuneration Salary Other Job duration 12 months Contact person Joanne Dyson Contact details 0417 139 824
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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 Nurse Manager role provides coordination and guidance in relation to nursing management practises by enabling and supporting operational and strategic organisational/divisional goals; working in collaboration with other Nurse Managers supporting Disaster and Emergency Management in overall efficient and effective management, benchmarking, maintaining standards and optimising patient/program outcomes.
The purpose of the Nurse Manager, Disaster and Emergency Management is to:
- Lead the development, delivery and continuous improvement of a health service wide clinical Disaster and Emergency Management program.
- Work with all Metro South clinical areas to undertake appropriate training and exercising, including annual training needs analysis, in accordance with relevant legislation, international standards and associated MSH policies, frameworks and plans relating to disaster management, emergency response and mass casualty management.
- Work with other clinical disaster practitioners in other health services and partner agencies to align and promote training and exercises, identifying lessons to further inform planning, training and exercises.
- lead the clinical aspects of Metro South's business continuity program, ensuring that clinical services have appropriate and practised arrangements in place to ensure they can be maintained during any disaster or emergency related disruption.
- Support the management of incidents at a MSH level as clinical liaison, both during work hours, and in the event of out-of-hours incidents.
- Provide quarterly reports and clinical advisory representation to the MSH Disaster and Emergency Management (Tier 3) Committee.
- Represent Metro South Health as a clinical advisor on multi-agency local and district disaster management and disaster recovery groups, exercises and forums as required.
- Support the deployment of MSH clinical staff to assist disaster affected communities as required.
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.
Further information
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