Registered Nurse - Lagoon Ward

Your new role:

As a Registered Nurse within Lagoon Ward, you'll provide high-quality, person-centred nursing care while developing your clinical knowledge and contributing to a high-performing team. You will:

• Deliver safe, compassionate and comprehensive nursing care to adult patients across acute and subacute medical settings, including patients with complex and multi-system conditions.
• Apply your clinical assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation skills to coordinate individualised care in partnership with patients, families and the broader healthcare team.
• Work collaboratively with nursing, medical and allied health professionals, with opportunities to take on team leader responsibilities and coordinate clinical care as delegated.
• Contribute to quality improvement, evidence-based practice, education and professional development while supporting a culture of safety, innovation and continuous improvement.

About you:

We're looking for a motivated and compassionate Registered Nurse who is committed to delivering excellent patient outcomes and continually developing their clinical practice. To be successful:

• You demonstrate strong clinical knowledge, critical thinking and decision-making skills, with a commitment to safe, quality and person-centred care.
• You work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team and demonstrate empathy, integrity, respect, accountability and a collaborative approach.
• You are committed to lifelong learning and professional development, with an enthusiasm for building your knowledge and skills in acute and subacute medical nursing.
• You are adaptable and proactive, with the ability to respond to changing clinical environments, prioritise competing demands and contribute positively to quality improvement initiatives.

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.

Unit Profile

Bayside Health Service provides services within the hospital and community setting such as Emergency Care, Primary Health and Minor Injury Care, Acute and subacute medicine, general surgery, maternity and paediatric, mental specialist outpatient and mental health care. Lagoon Ward is a 28-bed inpatient medical unit including a 16 Bed Medical Assessment and Planning Unit (MAPU) and 12 Bed Acute Medical Unit (AMU).

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.