Your new role:
As the Nurse Unit Manager, you will provide advanced clinical and operational leadership across the Respiratory Outpatients Department and Metro South Clinical Tuberculosis Service. You will lead a skilled nursing workforce, oversee service delivery, and drive quality, safety and performance outcomes while ensuring exceptional patient-centred care.
Key responsibilities include:
Providing advanced nursing leadership and clinical governance
Managing workforce planning, staffing, rostering and performance
Overseeing human, financial and material resources for the service
Driving quality improvement, service development and risk management initiatives
Ensuring compliance with healthcare standards, policies and legislation
Leading change and implementing innovative models of care
About you:
You are a confident and experienced nursing leader who thrives in a complex healthcare environment. You bring a passion for delivering high-quality patient care, developing high-performing teams and driving service excellence through collaboration, innovation and strong operational management.
You will bring:
Significant leadership experience within nursing or healthcare services
Advanced knowledge of clinical governance, quality and safety frameworks
Strong people leadership, coaching and team development skills
Experience managing budgets, resources and workforce planning
Expertise in rostering, HR processes and performance management
Excellent communication, negotiation and stakeholder engagement skills
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What we can offer you:
We offer a family-friendly work environment that supports you in making the most of Queensland's laid-back lifestyle.
We are renowned for teaching and research excellence with strong relations with Queensland's leading tertiary institutions.
We want to empower you to build a long-term career, with countless opportunities to learn and grow, no matter your role
You'll have all the benefits of working for Queensland's world-class public health system including generous leave entitlements, attractive salary and remuneration packages, salary packaging and access to relevant professional development allowances and/or leave, study and research assistance, corporate discounts and employee wellness programs.
About us:
PAH Respiratory Department provides a coordinated, holistic tertiary (level 6) inpatient and outpatient services for patients affected with respiratory illnesses utilising a multidisciplinary approach while maintaining a safe environment, thus resulting in optimal patient outcomes and a cost-efficient service.
INTEGRITY | COMPASSION | ACCOUNTABILITY | RESPECT | ENGAGEMENT | EXCELLENCE
Our values were created by employees for employees to shape our culture and inspire positive interactions in the workplace. Diversity of ideas, skills, traditions, and customs is celebrated as one of our greatest strengths. Having a workforce that reflects and understands the needs and expectations of our community is important to delivering safe, kinder, and more inclusive care.
We recognise our strength comes from the diversity of our people and so we encourage people of all genders, ethnicities, ages, abilities, languages, sexual orientation, and family responsibilities to apply.
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