Registered Nurse

Metro South Health; Brisbane; On-site; AUD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Family-friendly environment

Teaching and research links

Long-term career opportunities

Public health system benefits

Job summary

Metro South Health in Brisbane is seeking a Registered Nurse in the Community Services Team to deliver person-centred nursing care in clients' homes and community settings, including Hospital in the Home and MAPS programs.

You will work with multidisciplinary teams to assess, plan, deliver and evaluate care, with increasing autonomy, contributing to hospital avoidance and positive health outcomes.

Qualifications

• Clinically capable with demonstrated skills in comprehensive assessment, care planning, implementation and evaluation.
• Community focused, able to adapt nursing skills to home and clinic environments and collaborate with patients, carers and multidisciplinary teams.
• Strong clinical thinker, prioritising care and making decisions in complex situations.
• Committed to continuous learning and evidence-based practice with ongoing professional development.
• Collaborative and compassionate, upholding integrity, empathy and respect in the team.

Responsibilities

• Provide safe, compassionate nursing care to clients in homes and clinic settings.
• Assess, plan, deliver and evaluate individualised care across HITH, GEMRHITH and MAPS programs.
• Support hospital avoidance, recovery and positive health outcomes.

Skills

Clinical assessment

Care planning

Wound care

Multidisciplinary teamwork

Evidence-based practice

Professional development

Education

Bachelor of Nursing

Job description

Take Your Nursing Practice Beyond the Hospital Walls

Deliver meaningful, person-centred care where it matters most—supporting community clients in their homes and clinic settings across acute and post-acute care pathways.

Your New Role

As a Registered Nurse in the Community Services Team, you'll provide safe, compassionate and evidence-based nursing care to clients across Hospital in the Home (HITH), GEMRHITH and Multidisciplinary Avoidance and Post-Acute Service (MAPS) programs. Working alongside nursing, allied health and medical teams, you'll assess, plan, deliver and evaluate individualised care—including wound care and other complex clinical needs—while supporting hospital avoidance, recovery and positive health outcomes. This is an opportunity to build your clinical expertise, work with increasing autonomy and make a meaningful difference to people in their homes and community.

About You

You're a compassionate and confident Registered Nurse who thrives in a community setting, bringing strong clinical judgement, collaborative practice and a commitment to delivering person-centred care that supports positive outcomes.

• Clinically capable, with demonstrated skills in comprehensive assessment, care planning, implementation and evaluation.
• Community focused, with the ability to adapt your nursing skills to home and clinic environments and work collaboratively with patients, carers and multidisciplinary teams.
• Strong clinical thinker, able to prioritise care, respond to changing needs and make sound decisions in complex situations.
• Committed to continuous learning, with a proactive approach to professional development, evidence-based practice and building your clinical skills.
• Collaborative and compassionate, demonstrating integrity, empathy and respect while contributing positively to team culture and 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.

Community and Oral Health Services:

Community and Oral Health Services deliver a broad range of quality community-based care and support services to help people improve and maintain their wellbeing and independence as well as oral health services to adults and children.

We deliver a myriad of services across Metro South including Hospital in the Home, Rehabilitation, Chronic Disease, Acute Care, Dementia Outreach, Oral Health, and specialist residential care along with delivering numerous other vital community health services.

Our services are delivered by multidisciplinary teams of nursing and allied health staff with the skills and experience to treat a full range of health needs.

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 .

Occupational group Health - Nursing