Clinical Nurse Paediatric Surgery

Children's Health Queensland Hospital and Health Service; Brisbane; On-site; AUD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Professional growth

Competitive renumeration

Annual pay increases

Employer superannuation 12.75%

Annual leave loading 17.5%

Salary packaging

Wellbeing program

Work-life balance

Job summary

Children's Health Queensland Hospital and Health Service seeks a Clinical Nurse to provide advanced pediatric clinical care across CHQ sites including Queensland Children's Hospital, Mater NICU, and RBWH NICU. You will manage complex surgical cases, ensure NMBA-compliant practice, and lead quality-driven care for children with complex needs.

The role emphasizes professional leadership, ongoing education, and collaboration with a multidisciplinary team to improve patient outcomes in a national

Qualifications

• Provides safe, compassionate care aligned with NMBA standards.
• Inform clinical practice with evidence-based knowledge.
• Lead and educate nursing staff within the PMH/PSUB framework.

Responsibilities

• Direct comprehensive care for inpatients and outpatients.
• Delegate to and supervise nursing staff per NMBA guidelines.
• Act as clinical and educational resource for the team.
• Participate in quality initiatives and clinical audits.

Skills

Advanced clinical care

Leadership

Pediatric nursing

Tools

NMBA standards

Job description

The Clinical Nurse (CN) role provides advanced clinical and problem-solving skills, expert planning, and coordination skills in the clinical management in both inpatients and outpatients at QCH, Mater NICU, and RBWH NICU attending to children with complex care needs, while maintaining quality standards. This position manages patients with complex surgical cares including, but not limited to, bowel/bladder stomas, surgical urology needs, complex wounds, pressure injuries, and surgical gastrostomies, including neonates under the PSUB team.

About The Role

Your contribution will include:

Domain 1: Direct comprehensive care or provision of direct care

• Accountable for Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA) and own standards, actions and the outcomes of own nursing practice, professional advice given and for activities delegated.
• Responsible for providing safe, compassionate care, integrating the nursing Professional Practice Model, quality frameworks and Planetree philosophy of caring for each patient's psychological, social, emotional, spiritual, and physical care needs. This supports achievement of best clinical practice and individualised patient care and outcomes.

Domain 2: Support of Systems

• Adhere to established guidelines, protocols, procedures, standards, and systems of work as set out by the general surgical and stomal therapy nursing service, CHQHHS and Department of Health, Queensland.
• Delegate to and supervise RNs, ENAS's, USIN's, EN's and AIN's consistent with the NMBA decision making framework.

Domain 3: Education

• Act as a clinical and educational resource within an area based on knowledge, skills, and experience to inform evidence-based practice.
• Responsible for updating and managing own contemporary nursing specialist knowledge, competence, and capability.

Domain 4: Research

• Integrate advanced theoretical knowledge, evidence from a range of sources and own experience to devise and achieve agreed care outcomes for patients/residents/clients in line with organisational priorities.
• Participate in developing and undertaking quality initiatives, clinical audits, clinical trials and research.

Domain 5: Professional Leadership

• Act as a clinical leader, with integrity, transparency and accountability.
• Provide clinical leadership for professional and clinical practice, education and research.

About Children's Health Queensland Hospital and Health Service (CHQ HHS)

Children's Health Queensland is a recognised leader in paediatric healthcare, teaching and research, delivering a full range of clinical services and training, tertiary and quaternary care and health promotion programs to children and young people from across Queensland and northern New South Wales.

Our interprofessional workforce of more than 5,000 people deliver responsive, integrated and internationally recognised person-centred care through a network of services and facilities, including the Queensland Children's Hospital , Jacaranda Place, Ellen Barron Family Centre, our Child and Youth Community Health Service , our Child and Youth Mental Health Service , and other statewide services and programs including specialist outreach and telehealth services.

Inclusion and diversity

To encourage inclusive practices in recruitment, we are committed to increasing our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workforce and building inclusive cultures that respect and promote human rights and Workforce Diversity and Inclusion. CHQ is an equal opportunity employer.

Some of the great benefits of working at CHQ HSS

Benefits

If you're looking for a rewarding career, and you're excited to contribute to the development of Australia's best paediatric health service, come and join the team at CHQ and enjoy a range of benefits including:

• Opportunities for professional growth and development
• Competitive renumeration
• Annual pay increases
• 12.75% employer superannuation contribution
• 17.5% annual leave loading
• Salary packaging
• Employee wellness and assistance program
• Work/life balance, variety, and flexibility

You can find out more about why it's so great to work at CHQ HHS here .

Occupational group Health - Nursing