Clinical Nurse

Your new role:

As the Clinical Nurse within the General Medicine Patient Flow Initiative, you will play a key leadership role in delivering advanced clinical care and improving the patient journey across a busy and dynamic healthcare environment. Working collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams, you will support timely discharges, coordinate complex care, and help drive innovative patient flow strategies that enhance safety, efficiency, and patient outcomes.

In this role, you will:

• Deliver advanced clinical nursing care for patients with complex needs
• Lead and coordinate patient flow and discharge planning activities
• Support implementation of Criteria Led Discharge (CLD) practices
• Provide clinical leadership, mentorship, and support to nursing staff
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to reduce operational delays

About you:

You are an experienced and motivated Clinical Nurse who thrives in a fast-paced healthcare environment and is passionate about improving patient outcomes. You bring strong clinical leadership skills, excellent communication, and the ability to confidently manage complex situations while supporting team success.

To succeed in this role, you will demonstrate:

• Advanced clinical knowledge within General Medicine nursing
• Strong patient flow and discharge coordination experience
• Exceptional clinical assessment and problem-solving skills
• Ability to lead, mentor, and support multidisciplinary teams
• Experience managing complex patient care and competing priorities

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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 department of Internal Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology provides general medicine inpatient care to approximately 110 patients who are mostly of older age, with multiple co-morbidities and with various impairments. It has approximately 5000 admissions and over 1500 outpatient visits per year. The department comprises 5 general medicine consultant units and a consultant-led perioperative medicine service, and interfaces with the Medical Assessment and Planning Unit, the Hyperacute Stroke Unit, and clinical pharmacology, palliative care, geriatric rehabilitation departments, and Hospital in the Home programs. It has well-established teaching and research activities for medical students, junior staff and physician trainees.

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.