Nurse Unit Manager

Metro South Health; City of Brisbane; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Family-friendly environment

Leave entitlements

Professional development allowances

Wellness programs

Job summary

Metro South Health is seeking a Nurse Unit Manager to provide high-level nursing and operational leadership across the Central Referral Hub and GPLO services. You will drive patient-centred care, lead a multidisciplinary team and manage budgets and resources to ensure best-practice outcomes.

The role emphasizes transformational leadership, evidence-based practice and collaboration to enhance patient access and service delivery within Queensland’s public health system.

Qualifications

• Advanced clinical and leadership experience in nursing.
• Experience with outpatient services and referral management.
• Ability to lead multidisciplinary teams and manage resources.
• Evidence-based practice and quality improvement focus.
• Strong communication, negotiation and change-management skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide advanced clinical and operational leadership across CRH and GPLO.
• Lead multidisciplinary workforce and foster team engagement.
• Drive quality improvement, governance, and service development.
• Oversee human, financial and material resources, including budgeting and rostering.

Skills

Advanced nursing leadership

Outpatient services expertise

Budget management

Change management

Communication & collaboration

Education

Bachelor of Nursing

Postgraduate study desirable

Job description

Nurse Leadership with Purpose and Impact

Bring your leadership expertise to a service focused on integration, innovation and better patient experiences

About This Role

Your new role:

As Nurse Unit Manager, You Will Provide Advanced Nursing And Operational Leadership Across The Central Referral Hub (CRH) And General Practice Liaison Officer (GPLO) Teams, Driving High-quality, Patient-centred Care And Effective Service Delivery. You Will Lead a Multidisciplinary Workforce While Managing Clinical, Human, Financial And Material Resources To Achieve Best-practice Outcomes. You Will

• Provide advanced clinical and operational leadership across the Central Referral Hub and GPLO services, supporting contemporary nursing practice, patient-centred care and service performance.
• Lead and coordinate a multidisciplinary workforce, fostering team cohesion, capability, engagement and a positive practice environment.
• Drive quality improvement, clinical governance, innovation and service development, ensuring care and referral processes align with relevant standards, evidence and organisational priorities.
• Oversee human, financial and material resources, including workforce planning, rostering, performance development, budget management and efficient allocation of resources.

About You

• A Registered Nurse with demonstrated advanced clinical and leadership experience, supported by a Bachelor of Nursing or equivalent qualification; relevant postgraduate study is highly desirable.
• Very knowledgable and experienced in outpatient services, particularly referral management, stakeholder engagement and supporting effective access to care.
• Demonstrably capable in leading teams, managing resources and budgets, and using transformational leadership to build workforce capacity, capability and engagement.
• An innovative and collaborative leader with strong communication, negotiation and change-management skills, committed to evidence-based practice, quality improvement and exceptional patient outcomes.

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.

Unit Profile

The Central Referral Hub (CRH) receives, processes and distributes external referrals for MSH Outpatient services which are offered at five Metro South Health Hospital facilities and both satellite health centres. The CRH is a multidisciplinary team comprising of administration officers, registered nurses, clinical nurses, physiotherapy, and social workers.

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.

Further information

We are committed to building inclusive cultures in the Queensland public sector that respect and promote human rights and diversity.