AddressThe Internal Medicine Unit are looking for a Nurse Practitioner to join their team. Rapid Access Service for Known Patients (RAS-KP) enables timely and streamlined access to specialist general medicine care for a specific cohort of patients with chronic health conditions that are known to general medicine services at Princess Alexandra Hospital (PAH) and have a high risk of readmission. The Nurse Practitioner (NP) will provide and coordinate comprehensive care of patients using advanced practice skills in the area of general medicine, cognitive impairments, frailty, and heart disease.
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
- Provide expert clinical leadership through the application of advanced clinical knowledge, skills and competency according to contemporary practice and standards of care.
- Provide expert clinical leadership in development and evaluation of guidelines, protocols, procedures, standards and systems of work as set by the organisation and governing bodies in collaboration with the health care team.
- Articulate and promote the Nurse Practitioner role in clinical, political and professional contexts to encourage the contribution and advancement of knowledge and skills within scope of practice when engaging with others.
- Provide support, guidance, mentoring, preceptorship, role modelling and promote cooperation and collaborative teamwork.
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 ).
