
Nurse Manager - Patient Transport
Metro South Health Service
Posted 22 days ago
Your new role:
We are seeking an experienced Nurse Manager to lead the operational and clinical management of patient transport services across Metro South Health. In this role, you will:
- Oversee MSH Patient Transport operations, including Non-Urgent Non-Ambulance (NuNa) services, inter-hospital transfers, and RaFT system management.
- Provide clinical leadership, guidance, and specialist advice to ensure safe, timely, and patient-centred transport.
- Manage resources, budgets, and data reporting to optimise service efficiency and compliance with quality standards.
- Lead workforce development, mentoring, and professional learning within the Patient Transport team.
About you:
You are a highly skilled nurse leader with advanced expertise in patient transport and flow management. You will also:
- Demonstrate advanced knowledge of patient flow strategies, transport logistics, and healthcare systems.
- Exhibit strong leadership, critical thinking, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
- Support quality improvement initiatives, evidence-based practice, and research in patient transport.
- Promote a culture of collaboration, accountability, and person-centred care across teams.
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What we can offer you:
- 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.
- Flexible work arrangements to balance career, personal and cultural commitments.
- Opportunity to lead patient flow initiatives in a high-impact, specialist transport service.
- A diverse, inclusive workplace reflecting the community we serve.
Princess Alexandra Hospital:
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. Princess Alexandra Hospital, a place of countless opportunities to learn and grow your career!
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 Metro South Health:
We are the major public healthcare provider for Brisbane's south side, Logan, Redlands, and the Scenic Rim operating five major hospitals and a range of community, specialty, and state-wide healthcare services.
We are bold, innovative, collaborative, inspiring. We save lives, change lives, and make the world a better place. We are part of and proud of the community we serve.
We are better together.
About Metro South Health Service
Metro South Health is the major provider of public health services, and health education and research, in the Brisbane south side, Logan, Redlands and Scenic Rim regions.
We serve an estimated population of 1 million people, 23 per cent of Queensland’s population. We employ more than 10,000 staff and have an annual operating budget of $1.6 billion.
Our catchment spans 3,856 square kilometres and covers the area from the Brisbane River in the north to Redland City in the east, south to Logan and the eastern portion of the Scenic Rim to the border of New South Wales.
We have five major hospitals in addition to a number of health centres throughout the region.
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