Community and Oral Health Services are looking for a Clinical Nurse to join their team. This role involves applying advanced clinical expertise, problem-solving abilities, and expert planning and coordination skills to manage the care of cardiac patients with complex needs, ensuring that quality standards are upheld. Operating autonomously within the healthcare team, the CN plays a crucial role in the planning, delivery, and management of specialized cardiac nursing care. Additionally, the CN provides leadership in clinical practice, education, and research, and supports management tasks, including portfolio responsibilities.
About the Role Demonstrate knowledge of social factors impacting on health outcomes and the importance in the application of the Principles of Primary Health Care (PHC) to guide the delivery of clinical care. Displays an ongoing commitment to the acquisition of advanced skills in PHC.Provide expert clinical leadership in patient's/resident's/client's assessment, care planning and practice and role model to and collaborate with the healthcare team.Apply the quality framework by engaging in incident reporting/investigation and conducts quality improvement audits and develops risk minimisation strategy activities to promote safe and/or rectify unsafe practice.Apply change management principles by providing support, guidance, mentoring, preceptorship, role modelling and promotion of cooperation and collaborative teamwork.Our values of Integrity, Compassion, Accountability, Respect, Engagement and Excellence, shape our culture within Metro South Health. Our values guide our day-to-day decision making and are fundamental to what we care about as a health service, how we behave, how we interact with each other and provide care to the many patients who come through our doors every day.
We offer rewarding career opportunities across a wide range of clinical and non-clinical areas across our health service and pride ourselves on providing a work environment that is safe, satisfying, flexible, and promotes a healthy work-life balance.
As a Metro South employee, you will benefit from a higher than standard employer contribution to Superannuation of up to 12.75%, access to salary packaging, flexible working arrangements and competitive salary rates with annual incremental increases.
We are committed to building inclusive cultures in the Queensland public sector that respect and promote human rights and diversity.
Applicants are encouraged to apply online; please review the Role Description for more information on application process requirements. Agency referrals will not be accepted for this position.
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