Your new role:
As a Clinical Nurse within the Anaesthetic Care Unit, you will provide advanced clinical care and leadership to patients with complex peri-anaesthetic needs. Working within a multidisciplinary team, you will coordinate care delivery, support staff development, contribute to quality improvement initiatives and play a key role in ensuring safe, high-quality patient outcomes. This is an excellent opportunity to combine hands-on clinical practice with leadership, education and service improvement activities.
In this role, you will:
Deliver advanced peri-anaesthetic nursing care to complex patients
Coordinate and lead clinical care within a fast-paced specialist environment
Provide clinical leadership, support and guidance to nursing staff
Manage patient assessment, care planning and evaluation activities
Contribute to quality improvement, audits and patient safety initiatives
Support workforce development through education, mentoring and clinical facilitation
About you:
You are an experienced Registered Nurse with advanced anaesthetic nursing knowledge and a passion for delivering exceptional patient care. You are a confident clinical leader who thrives in a collaborative environment and is committed to professional excellence, continuous improvement and supporting the development of others.
You will bring:
Advanced clinical experience in anaesthetic nursing practice
Strong assessment, clinical decision-making and problem-solving skills
Demonstrated ability to manage complex patient care requirements
Experience leading, mentoring and supporting nursing teams
Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills
Commitment to person-centred, evidence-based care
Knowledge of quality improvement, risk management and patient safety principles
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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:
The Anaesthetic Care Unit provides anaesthetic nursing care in the Princess Alexandra Hospital's 21 operating theatres and areas other than theatre, including the Cardiac Catheter Laboratory, Endoscopy Suite and Radiology Departments. We are a tertiary referral centre, our client base includes liver transplant patients, cardio-thoracic, spinal, major trauma and those at high anaesthetic or surgical risk. The Anaesthetic Care Unit provides a 7 day per week, 24 hours per day 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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