Address 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 providing safe, compassionate care, integrating the nursing and midwifery Professional Practice Model, quality frameworks (Magnet or Pathway to Excellence) and Person-Centred Care approaches of caring for each patient's psychological, social, emotional, spiritual, and physical care needs. This supports achievement of best clinical practice and individualised patient care and outcomes.
Responsible for educating nursing team/s on the application of critical thinking and reasoning, advanced problem-solving skills and expert clinical judgement to provide safe contemporary nurse care according to NMBA/ perioperative standards.
Coordinate, develop, implement, translate and evaluate Perioperative Services clinical practice standards, guidelines, procedures and protocols using an evidence-based approach as required.
Support a culture of continuous quality improvement by initiating and conducting quality initiatives in conjunction with healthcare team.
Develop, lead and coordinate the Nurse Sensitive Indicators (NSI) and Unit Key Performance Indicators (KPI) in relation to education, training and quality service improvement activities.
Understand and align to Business Planning Framework (BPF) resource utilisation and fiscal accountability.
Responsible for completing required documentation and becoming a proficient user of the Electronic Medical Record (EMR) and other Information Technology systems; once proficient remain current with changes, updates and contingencies.
Design and develop, in collaboration with the Nurse Unit Manager, an educational framework and operational plan in relation to nursing education and training to include performance coaching and mentoring for all levels of staff from beginning practitioner to advanced clinician.
Conduct an educational needs analysis in consultation, to identify opportunities for development and from this analysis formulate an educational plan.
Lead and support education and research to promote innovation specific to healthcare trends, to promote patient and service outcomes within the scope of the position.
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.
