Your new role:

As a Clinical Nurse Consultant, you'll provide expert clinical leadership and guidance in emergency care, driving excellence, collaboration, and innovation by:

• Providing expert clinical guidance, assessment, and care planning for complex emergency presentations.
• Leading quality improvement, research, and clinical redesign initiatives to enhance patient flow and outcomes.
• Acting as a mentor, educator, and clinical resource for nursing and multidisciplinary team members.
• Supporting clinical governance frameworks, policy development, and evidence-based best practice.
• Contributing to education programs, workforce development, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Working collaboratively with the Nurse Manager, Nurse Educator, and divisional leadership to deliver excellence in emergency care.

About you:

You are an experienced emergency nurse passionate about leadership, education, and innovation, thriving in a dynamic environment and providing expert guidance by:

• Holding current registration as a Registered Nurse with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA).
• Demonstrating extensive emergency nursing experience, ideally 5+ years in advanced or leadership roles.
• Possessing advanced clinical knowledge, critical thinking, and decision-making capabilities.
• Showing proven leadership and communication skills to influence and support positive team culture.
• Having a commitment to evidence-based practice, patient-centred care, and continuous learning.
• (Highly desirable) Holding or working toward a postgraduate qualification in Emergency Nursing or related specialty.

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What we can offer you:

• The opportunity to work within one of Australia's leading tertiary referral emergency departments.
• Access to professional recognition through Magnet® accreditation and Pathway to Excellence® programs.
• Flexible work options that promote work-life balance and wellbeing.
• Career progression opportunities within Metro South Health's extensive network.
• 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.