Nursing Director - Healthcare Standards Unit
North West Hospital and Health Service
Posted 9 days ago
North West Hospital and Health Service (HHS)
- Unique locations
- Friendly communities
- Regional, rural and remote $$$ incentives
Working with us
- Base salary ranges between $5,973.00 and $6,262.40 p.f. (Nurse Grade 10).
- 12.75% employer superannuation contribution.
- Long Service Leave and Sick Leave accrual.
Professionally, our HHS values professionalism, leadership capability, excellence and resilience in our staff. We are committed to providing extraordinary opportunities for career development including in-house training, development and mentoring programs.
The lifestyle in Mount Isa is family friendly; it is a vibrant city with an outback community feel. You will fall in love with the natural splendour of the North West Queensland region, the experience of a rural/urban community and the opportunity to make a real and positive difference... and want to stay.
The Traditional Owners of the area are the Kalkadoon people.
Mount Isa is a great place to live and work!
About the role
The Nursing Director provides contemporary operational and professional nursing leadership for the Healthcare Standards Unit. The role shapes clinical and corporate governance; and provides the coordination of service delivery, human and material management, expertise in health care team communication, data analysis and fiscal management to deliver safe, quality, effective and efficient healthcare provision.
- Promote a quality-supportive culture and consistently apply evidence-based practice.
- Provide leadership, direction, and management of clinical and non-clinical staff of the Healthcare Standards Unit.
- Lead the planning, coordination, development, and implementation of registered documents relating to the provision of safe and effective clinical care for the North West Hospital and Health Service.
- Work collaboratively with leadership groups and healthcare team members.
- Employ professional and clinical expertise in collaboration with nursing/midwifery executive and multidisciplinary stakeholders.
Requirements
- Mandatory requirements are a relevant tertiary degree qualification and appropriate registration/licences as a Registered Nurse.
- A post graduate qualification or currently enrolled in a post graduate program in a relevant area of study is highly desirable.
- Appointees will be required to work Monday to Friday business hours and as required for the organisation.
- The position may involve travel to various facilities or units within the North West Hospital and Health Service.
- C Class Motor Vehicle Licence.
- Pre-employment screening will be conducted for the successful applicant, including Criminal History checks.
- This is a VPD risk role and may require evidence of vaccination or immunity to: Hepatitis A/B, Measles, Mumps, Rubella, Varicella, Pertussis, and Tuberculosis.
- A period of probation may apply.
Interested?
Download the Role Description for further information and application / interview preparation.
Apply ONLINE: https://smartjobs.qld.gov.au/jobs/QLD-MI631814-NG10
Contact: Karen Slater on 0419 782 260.
Applications close: Thursday, 01 May 2025.
About North West Hospital and Health Service
Our vision
Healthier Queenslanders.
Our purpose
To provide leadership and direction, and to work collaboratively to ensure the health system to deliver quality services that are safe and responsive for Queenslanders.
Our responsibilities
The Department of Health's role include:
1.providing strategic leadership and direction for health through the development of policies, legislation and regulations
2.developing statewide plans for health services, workforce and major capital investment
3.managing major capital works for public sector health service facilities
4.purchasing health service delivery
5.supporting and monitoring the quality of health service delivery
6.delivering specialised health services, providing ambulance, health information and communication technology and statewide health support services.
Hospital and Health Services are independent statutory agencies responsible for their own strategic plans.
Our strategic objectives
1.Supporting Queenslanders to be healthier: promoting and protecting the health of Queenslanders
2.Enabling safe, quality services: delivering and enabling safe, clinically effective, high quality health services
3.Equitable health outcomes: improving health outcomes through better access to services for Queenslanders
4.High performance: responsive, dynamic and accountable management of the department, and of funding and service performance
5.Dynamic policy leadership: drive service improvement and innovation through a collaborative policy cycle
6.Broad engagement with partners: harnessing the skill and knowledge of our partners
7.Engaged and productive workforce: foster a culture that is vibrant, innovative and collaborative
Source: this is an extract from the company’s own website.
Director - Healthcare Standards Unit
North West Hospital and Health Service
Director - Healthcare Standards Unit
North West Hospital and Health Service
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