About your role

As a Registered Nurse in the Elective Surgery Access Team, you will play a key role in preparing and optimising patients for planned surgery. Working closely with the interprofessional team, you will coordinate care in preadmission clinics, drawing on your clinical knowledge and assessment skills to deliver safe, compassionate, and person-centred care.

In this role you will:

• Provide comprehensive preadmission assessments and patient education.
• Coordinate and optimise patients for surgery in collaboration with case managers and clinicians.
• Use critical thinking and clinical judgement to support patient-centred outcomes.
• Contribute to quality initiatives, evidence-based practice, and continuous improvement.
• Support patients and families with clear communication, empathy, and professionalism.
• Work as part of a collaborative, multidisciplinary team to meet surgical access targets.

About you

We're looking for a motivated and compassionate Registered Nurse who thrives in a team environment and is committed to excellence in patient care.

You will bring:

• Current registration with AHPRA as a Registered Nurse.
• Strong clinical knowledge and assessment skills, ideally in preadmission or surgical planning.
• Excellent communication and documentation skills.
• Ability to provide safe, high-quality, patient-centred care.
• Commitment to professional development and evidence-based practice.
• Teamwork, integrity, and a patient-first approach.

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.

Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Hospital:

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.