
Nurse Manager - Patient Flow Program
Metro South Health Service
Posted 6 days ago
Your new role:
As a Nurse Manager – Patient Flow Program, you'll play a key leadership role in coordinating patient admissions, discharges and transfers to ensure efficient hospital operations and safe, person-centred care. Working collaboratively with senior nursing and multidisciplinary teams, you'll support the Assistant Director of Nursing in delivering operational excellence across the Patient Flow Program by:
- Leading and benchmarking performance across patient flow and workforce practices
- Coordinating and implementing quality improvement and service redesign initiatives
- Providing operational leadership and expert clinical governance
- Managing data integrity, resources and budgets to support service delivery outcomes
- Promoting education, research and evidence-based practice within the nursing workforce
About you:
You are a proactive and compassionate nursing leader with advanced decision-making skills, operational insight and a passion for driving patient flow efficiency. You will bring a collaborative mindset and proven ability to manage complex systems by:
- Holding current registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA) as a Registered Nurse
- Demonstrating advanced leadership and communication skills across multidisciplinary teams
- Possessing strong analytical, planning and resource management abilities
- Displaying expertise in workforce rostering, data analysis and clinical governance
- Fostering education, innovation and a culture of continuous improvement
- Holding (or working toward) postgraduate qualifications in nursing or health management (highly regarded)
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What we can offer you:
- The opportunity to lead a motivated and supportive multidisciplinary team
- Access to Magnet® and Pathway to Excellence® professional environments that value nursing excellence
- Ongoing education and development to support your leadership growth
- Flexible work arrangements supporting work-life balance
- A chance to contribute to innovation and service improvement across a leading tertiary hospital
- 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.
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 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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