Your new role:

As a Senior Nurse within Surgical Services at QEII Hospital, you will practice at an advanced level to deliver high-quality, cost-effective care, contributing to surgical quality improvement and service excellence. You will lead operational initiatives, collaborate closely with multidisciplinary teams, and ensure reliable data submission to the ACS NSQIP database. Your role includes supporting clinical governance, mentoring staff, and promoting a culture of continuous learning and evidence-based practice.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide advanced, autonomous nursing care in collaboration with the surgical team.
• Collaborate with nursing, surgical, and anaesthetic directors to identify quality improvement opportunities.
• Lead operational and service development projects aligned with clinical governance principles.
• Mentor, precept, and support nursing staff to foster professional growth.

About you:

We are seeking an experienced Registered Nurse with advanced clinical expertise and a passion for surgical care quality and leadership. You are a proactive, analytical thinker with strong communication skills, committed to fostering teamwork, innovation, and excellence.

• Proven experience in advanced nursing practice within surgical or acute care settings.
• Strong knowledge of clinical governance, quality improvement, and patient safety standards.
• Postgraduate qualification or enrolment in related advanced nursing studies is highly desirable.

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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.

About us:

The Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Hospital (QEII) is a medium metropolitan adult facility providing a range of inpatient and outpatient services including a 24-hour Emergency Department. We provide a range of services, including surgery, cardiology, endoscopy, orthopaedics, gynaecology, urology, geriatric, respiratory and emergency medicine.

We're making our hospital bigger and better to make it easier for our growing community to get the health care they need. We'll have more beds, medical wards and expanded intensive care and emergency services planned to be opened by 2027.

QEII Hospital, a place of opportunity to make a difference 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.