Clinical Nurse

Lead with Expertise in Geriatric & Rehabilitation Nursing

Lead exceptional care for older people and make a difference through clinical leadership, specialist dementia, delirium and rehabilitation nursing at Princess Alexandra Hospital.

About This Role

Your new role:

As a Clinical Nurse within the Geriatric and Rehabilitation Unit, you will provide advanced clinical leadership and expert nursing care to older people, rehabilitation patients and people experiencing dementia, delirium and complex behavioural and psychological needs. Working across Banksia Place and the Acute Cognitive Unit, you will collaborate with a multidisciplinary team to deliver safe, evidence-based and person-centred care while contributing to education, quality improvement, research and service development.

Use advanced critical thinking and problem-solving skills in complex clinical situations.Mentor, educate and support nurses, students and other healthcare professionals.Contribute to clinical audits, research, quality improvement and practice innovation.Lead and support portfolios across clinical practice, education, management and quality.

About You

You are an experienced Registered Nurse with strong clinical knowledge and a passion for supporting older people with complex health and cognitive needs. You bring confidence in clinical leadership, sound judgement and a commitment to developing others and improving patient outcomes.

Experience caring for people with dementia, delirium and complex behaviours.Strong assessment, care planning, coordination and clinical decision-making skills.Demonstrated leadership, delegation, mentoring and communication skills.A commitment to evidence-based practice and continuous improvement.

Check out our quick tips and application essentials!

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 roleYou'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 Princess Alexandra Hospital (PAH) is a tertiary health care centre providing care in most major adult specialties. We provide world class health care to Brisbane City's southern suburbs across emergency, medical, mental health and surgical services, including liver and kidney transplants.

We are nationally recognised for our expertise in trauma management and organ transplants and are one of Australia's leading academic and research health centres. The PAH as a major medical research precinct hosts Australia's most advanced medical research facility, the Translational Research Institute (TRI) as well as a new Clinical Research Facility for the discoveries made at TRI to be trialed in a safe clinical environment.

We're expanding our hospital to make sure everyone gets the care they need. We're adding more beds, modernising our buildings, and improving our spaces to treat kidney and cancer patients with all new services and facilities planned to open by 2027.

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.

We are better together.

Further information

We are committed to building inclusive cultures in the Queensland public sector that respect and promote human rights and diversity.

Applicants are encouraged to apply online. Please review the Role Description for more information on application process requirements. Agency referrals will not be accepted for this position.