Nurse Navigator - CAREPACT

Queensland Health; Brisbane; Vor Ort; AUD 85.000 - 110.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

The Princess Alexandra Hospital (PAH) in Brisbane, part of Queensland Health, is seeking a Nurse Navigator to lead the CAREPACT program. You will coordinate person-centred care across hospitals, aged care facilities, GPs and community services to improve access and outcomes for residents.

You will bring extensive nursing experience, gerontology expertise and a drive to reduce fragmentation while empowering residents and families through education and shared decision-making.

Qualifikationen

• Experienced Registered Nurse with gerontology and complex care coordination experience.
• Ability to lead practice improvements and strengthen cross‑sector partnerships.
• Experience using clinical data, research and quality improvement to improve patient outcomes.

Aufgaben

• Coordinate person-centred care across hospitals, aged care homes, GPs and community services.
• Support early intervention, timely referrals and alternatives to avoidable ED presentations.
• Build collaborative partnerships to improve continuity of care and reduce fragmentation.

Kenntnisse

Gerontology

Care coordination

Autonomous clinical decision-making

Partnership development

Clinical data & quality improvement

Ausbildung

Registered Nurse (RN)

Jobbeschreibung

Join Metro South Health’s CAREPACT team as a Nurse Navigator and help improve healthcare outcomes for older people living in residential aged care. Lead coordinated, person-centred care, build strong partnerships and help residents access the right care at the right time.

Your new role:

As a CAREPACT Nurse Navigator, you will play a key role in improving healthcare access and outcomes for residents of residential aged care homes. You will:

• Coordinate person-centred care across hospitals, residential aged care homes, GPs and community services.
• Support early intervention, timely referrals and alternatives to avoidable emergency department presentations.
• Build collaborative partnerships to improve continuity of care and reduce service fragmentation.
• Empower residents, families and carers through education, advocacy and shared decision-making.

About you:

You are an experienced Registered Nurse with advanced clinical judgement, a passion for aged care and the leadership skills to bring people and services together. You thrive in a collaborative environment and are committed to delivering safe, compassionate and evidence-informed care that makes a meaningful difference. You will have:

• Demonstrated knowledge and experience in gerontology, complex care coordination and autonomous clinical decision-making.
• Ability to build trusted relationships with residents, families, carers and multidisciplinary healthcare teams.
• Skills in leading practice improvements, strengthening partnerships and developing effective care pathways.Experience using clinical data, research and quality improvement strategies to enhance patient outcomes and service delivery.

Check out our quick tips and application essentials!

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 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.