About the Team
The Division of Surgery & Perioperative Services at Children's Health Queensland delivers a statewide, consultant-led tertiary and quaternary referral service, providing ambulatory, emergency, and inpatient care for pre-term infants, children, and adolescents with complex surgical needs. Paediatric Surgical Services, including Urology, manage a range of congenital and lifelong conditions, working closely with Allied Health, medical specialists, and other surgical teams to coordinate care and perform complex multi-organ procedures. The service is also integrated with the Paediatric Burns, Trauma, and Family Support services. Additionally, the unit provides specialised care for inpatients and outpatients at QCH, Mater Mothers NICU, and RBWH NICU, supporting children with stomas, urological conditions, complex wounds, pressure injuries, and surgical gastrostomies, including neonates under the PSUB team.
About the Role
The Clinical Nurse (CN) role provides advanced clinical and problem-solving skills, expert planning, and coordination skills in the clinical management in both inpatients and outpatients at QCH, Mater NICU, and RBWH NICU attending to children with complex care needs, while maintaining quality standards. This position manages patients with complex surgical cares including, but not limited to, bowel/bladder stomas, surgical urology needs, complex wounds, pressure injuries, and surgical gastrostomies, including neonates under the PSUB team. This nursing service works closely with the paediatric general surgical teams as well as the CNC Surgical Infants and CNC Wound and Stomal Therapy. This role works autonomously within the Healthcare Team structure and is pivotal in the planning, managing, and delivering specialist surgical nursing care. The CN provides clinical leadership for professional and clinical practice, education, and research. The role supports management activities including portfolio responsibilities.
Autonomy
Practices autonomously.
Provides leadership in clinical decision making to give and/or coordinate care to particular patients.
Assumes responsibility for professional leadership in the absence of the Nurse Grade 7 (NG7).
Applies critical thinking across all the domains.
Inclusion and diversity
To encourage inclusive practices in recruitment, we are committed to increasing our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workforce and building inclusive cultures that respect and promote human rights and Workforce Diversity and Inclusion. CHQ is an equal opportunity employer.
Some of the great benefits of working at CHQ HSS
If you're looking for a rewarding career, and you're excited to contribute to the development of Australia's best paediatric health service, come and join the team at CHQ and enjoy a range of benefits including:
Opportunities for professional growth and development
Competitive renumeration
Annual pay increases
12.75% employer superannuation contribution
17.5% annual leave loading
Salary packaging
Employee wellness and assistance program
Work/life balance, variety, and flexibility
You can find out more about why it's so great to work at CHQ HHS here.This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License.
