Nurse Unit Manager

Lead a dedicated paediatrics team in Toowoomba and help deliver exceptional care for children and families. As Nurse Unit Manager, you'll provide clinical and operational leadership, support staff growth, and drive service excellence while making a meaningful difference to the health and wellbeing of your community.

What your day could look like

As Nurse Unit Manager, you'll help create positive experiences for children, families and staff by leading a high-performing team and supporting high-quality care across the service. You'll combine clinical leadership, people leadership and service improvement to deliver outcomes that matter.

Every day, you'll contribute by:

• Leading a team to deliver safe, person-centred care.
• Building capability through coaching, support and development.
• Using service insights to improve quality, performance and outcomes.
• Driving change and innovation that strengthens patient care.

Let's talk about you!

You're a compassionate and capable nursing leader who brings people together to achieve great outcomes. You lead with integrity, value respectful relationships and enjoy helping teams grow and succeed. You'll be proud of creating an environment where children and families receive excellent care while staff feel supported, valued and empowered to do their best work.

Here's what will help you thrive:

• Current registration as a Registered Nurse.
• Experience leading clinical teams and services.
• Strong people, resource and operational management skills.
• Ability to drive improvement and lead change positively.

You'll stand out if you have:

• Postgraduate qualifications in nursing, management or health administration.
• Experience leading service improvements in complex healthcare settings.

Above all, you'll bring Compassion, Integrity, Dignity, Innovation and Courage to everything you do.

Why Join Darling Downs Health?

At Darling Downs Health, we care for over 300,000 people across our expansive region. No matter where you live in our region, from Taroom in the north to Texas in the south, our purpose is to ensure accessible and sustainable care. It's complex, challenging work that makes a real difference – and the career possibilities are endless. 

Whether you're a doctor, nurse, allied health professional, facilities team member, or administrator, you'll see your impact firsthand. Here, you'll find opportunities that simply don't exist elsewhere: the chance to lead initiatives, develop specialties, and embrace responsibilities that would take years to access in larger health services.  

Darling Downs Health is where you can step up sooner, grow faster, and help shape the future of care across our region. 

Your career at Darling Downs Health also comes with meaningful rewards:

• Maximise your take‑home pay with salary packaging and generous leave entitlements
• Enjoy flexible work arrangements that support balance and variety
• Access professional development funding, study leave and clear career pathways
• Be part of a diverse and inclusive culture that values learning and collaboration.
• Take care of your wellbeing with EAP access, private health insurance discounts and the Fitness Passport.

For a full list of benefits, visit: Darling Downs Health Benefits

Your future is here. Where are you?

If you're ready to make a meaningful impact and grow your career in a place that values people and purpose, we'd love to hear from you.

Click “Apply Now” to submit your application and upload the requested documents.

Find out more about us!

Visit our careers site to learn more about working with Darling Downs Health:

www.health.qld.gov.au/darlingdowns

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