About your role

As an Associate Nurse Unit Manager, you will play a key leadership role in the Princess Alexandra Hospital Intensive Care Unit. Working in partnership with the Nurse Unit Manager, you will provide operational leadership, support clinical excellence, and ensure delivery of safe, person-centred care.

Your key responsibilities will include:

• Leading and coordinating nursing teams to deliver high-quality ICU care
• Monitoring unit activity, adjusting staff allocation and models of care as needed
• Applying evidence-based practice to improve patient outcomes
• Supporting education, mentoring, and professional development of staff
• Participating in quality improvement initiatives and change management

About you

You are an experienced ICU nurse and proven leader who thrives in a fast-paced, collaborative environment. You are passionate about clinical excellence, team development, and patient-centred outcomes.

You will bring:

• Postgraduate qualification in a relevant area of study and minimum 5 years' clinical experience in ICU (mandatory)
• Advanced clinical knowledge, judgement, and leadership skills
• Commitment to quality improvement, education, and evidence-based practice
• Strong communication, negotiation, and problem-solving abilities
• Demonstrated ability to manage staff, resources, and workflows effectively
• Commitment to working day shift Monday to Friday

What we can offer you:

• 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.

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. 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 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.