Clinical Nurse

Lead the Way in Specialist Kidney Nursing

Join Ward 4BK at Princess Alexandra Hospital as a Clinical Nurse and provide advanced specialist kidney nursing care within Queensland’s only super-specialist kidney service. This is an opportunity to lead clinical practice, support education and contribute to research and quality improvement.

Your new role:

As a Clinical Nurse in Ward 4BK, you will provide expert nursing care to patients with complex kidney conditions while working autonomously within a multidisciplinary team. You'll play a key role in clinical leadership, care coordination and supporting best practice across the service. You will,

• Provide person-centred kidney nursing care to patients with complex needs, including dialysis, acute and chronic kidney failure, transplantation and palliative care.
• Provide clinical leadership through assessment, care planning, critical thinking, delegation and coordination of care, while supporting the wider healthcare team.
• Contribute to education, research, clinical audits, quality improvement and practice development to promote safe, evidence-based kidney care.

About you:

You're an experienced Registered Nurse with strong specialist kidney nursing knowledge and the confidence to provide clinical leadership in a complex acute care environment. You bring sound judgement, excellent communication skills and a commitment to achieving positive outcomes for patients and the service. You have;

• Advanced clinical knowledge and experience in kidney nursing, including the assessment and management of complex patient care.
• Strong clinical leadership, critical thinking, problem-solving and care coordination skills.
• A collaborative approach, with the ability to mentor, educate and support the development of colleagues and students.

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:

Princess Alexandra Hospital:

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 transplant.

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.