Clinical Nurse Consultant

Queensland Health; Mackay Regional; On-site; AUD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Family-friendly work environment

Teaching and research excellence

Long-term career opportunities

Employee wellness programs

Job summary

Queensland Health's Metro South Kidney and Transplant Service (MS KATS) seeks a Clinical Nurse Consultant to provide advanced clinical leadership, expert advice and consultancy in haemodialysis care. You will collaborate with the Nurse Unit Manager, Nurse Educator and multidisciplinary team to promote safe, compassionate, person-centred care and excellence in clinical practice.

The role emphasises mentoring, research and continuous improvement to support workforce capability and professional

Responsibilities

• Provide expert clinical guidance and support to nursing staff in haemodialysis care, clinical decision-making and patient management.
• Lead clinical practice improvements, quality and risk management initiatives, and the implementation of evidence-based policies, procedures and standards.
• Mentor, coach and educate staff while supporting professional development, workforce capability and a positive learning culture.
• Promote research, innovation and clinical redesign to improve patient outcomes, service delivery and nursing practice.

Skills

Clinical leadership

Haemodialysis expertise

Evidence-based practice

Consultancy skills

Job description

Your new role:

Join Metro South Kidney and Transplant Service (MS KATS), Queensland's only super-specialist kidney service, and play a key role in delivering high-quality, evidence-based haemodialysis care. As the Clinical Nurse Consultant, you will provide advanced clinical leadership, expert advice and consultancy while working collaboratively with the Nurse Unit Manager, Nurse Educator and multidisciplinary team to promote safe, compassionate, person-centred care and excellence in clinical practice.

In this role, you will:

• Provide expert clinical guidance and support to nursing staff in haemodialysis care, clinical decision-making and patient management.
• Lead clinical practice improvements, quality and risk management initiatives, and the implementation of evidence-based policies, procedures and standards.
• Mentor, coach and educate staff while supporting professional development, workforce capability and a positive learning culture.
• Promote research, innovation and clinical redesign to improve patient outcomes, service delivery and nursing practice.

About you:

Join Metro South Kidney and Transplant Service (MS KATS), Queensland's only super-specialist kidney service, and play a key role in delivering high-quality, evidence-based haemodialysis care.

In this role, you will:

• Provide expert clinical guidance and support to nursing staff in haemodialysis care, clinical decision-making and patient management.
• Lead clinical practice improvements, quality and risk management initiatives, and the implementation of evidence-based policies, procedures and standards.
• Mentor, coach and educate staff while supporting professional development, workforce capability and a positive learning culture.
• Promote research, innovation and clinical redesign to improve patient outcomes, service delivery and nursing practice.

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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 Metro South Kidney and Transplant Service (MS KATS) is the only super-specialist kidney service in Queensland and provides a world class service in the management of kidney diseases. The primary function of the service is to provide comprehensive, innovative, high quality, efficient, multidisciplinary kidney services that produce high levels of patient satisfaction and world class outcomes within clinically appropriate timeframes in the areas of kidney transplant, dialysis, chronic/acute kidney disease. The Haemodialysis Service provides haemodialysis or plasma exchange to patients with Acute Kidney Injury (AKI), Chronic Kidney Disease, Kidney Transplants, and high-risk intraoperative liver transplantation. As a tertiary referral hospital, the unit provides 24hr service 7 days a week with nurses on-call overnight and a limited on-campus service available on Sunday for emergencies.

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.