Enrolled Nurse Advanced Skills

Queensland Health; Innisfail; On-site; AUD 65,000 - 86,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Attractive remuneration

Generous superannuation

Career development opportunities

Healthy work-life balance

Job summary

Queensland Health's Innisfail Hospital invites an Enrolled Nurse Advanced Skills to join the Perioperative Unit. You will contribute to surgical and endoscopy care across scrub, anaesthetic, recovery and sterilisation services, supporting the full patient journey.

Located in Far North Queensland, the role offers a rewarding environment with opportunities to work across preadmission, theatre admissions and related perioperative activities.

Responsibilities

• Assisting with preadmission clinic and anaesthetic assessments.
• Theatre and instrument preparation.
• Theatre admissions.

Education

Enrolled Nurse Registration

Job description

Looking for more than just a nursing job?

Get paid to live in paradise and join the Perioperative Unit, Innisfail Hospital as an Enrolled Nurse Advanced Skills. In your role, you will be part of a dynamic perioperative nursing team delivering high-quality patient care across surgical, endoscopy, preadmission, anaesthetic, recovery and sterilisation services.

Make the move. Make a difference.

About us:

Cairns and Hinterland Hospital and Health Service covers an area of 142,900 square kilometres. We go as far as Tully in the south, Cow Bay in the north and Croydon in the west.

We're committed to improving the health and wellbeing of people in Far North Queensland by providing high quality acute health care services.

Innisfail Hospital services include emergency department, general medical and surgical, low risk maternity (3 beds), chemotherapy (4 chairs), and renal dialysis (8 chairs). Innisfail Hospital has 49 inpatient beds and 7 emergency department treatment spaces. Beds include three high dependency unit beds and ten same day beds/bed alternatives.

The hospital serves a population of over 8000 people and is 1.5 hours' drive from Cairns. The Innisfail region is renowned for spectacular waterfalls, fishing, Mission Beach, the Family Islands, and World Heritage rainforest.

About your role:

The Perioperative Unit delivers a broad range of surgical and endoscopy services across multiple specialties, supported by a seven-day Sterilisation Department and Pre-Admission Clinic. Our nursing team plays a vital role across the full patient journey, including scrub, scout, anaesthetics, recovery, endoscopy, clinic and sterilisation services.

Your main tasks may include (but are not limited to):

• Assisting with preadmission clinic and anaesthetic assessments.
• Theatre and instrument preparation.
• Theatre admissions.

For more information about this role, please refer to the attached Role Description and Role Overview.

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What we offer:

• Cairns and Hinterland Hospital and Health service offer a number ofworkplace benefits. Besides attractive remuneration, generous superannuation, salary packaging and career development opportunities, we value a healthy work/life balance that allows you take advantage of the sunshine, hiking tracks, swimming spots, reef and rainforest.

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