Job Description
Your new role:
Bring your advanced clinical expertise, autonomous decision-making and leadership to our Emergency Department at Redland Hospital. As a Nurse Practitioner - Emergency, you will deliver comprehensive, evidence-based and person-centred care while helping shape innovative models of care and improve patient outcomes. You will: * Deliver advanced emergency care: Conduct comprehensive health assessments, diagnose and manage patient conditions, interpret diagnostic pathology and radiology, prescribe medications within your approved scope of practice * Lead patient-centred models of care: Work autonomously and collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams to deliver safe, high-quality and cost-effective care, responding to the evolving needs of patients and the emergency service. * Drive service improvement and innovation: Contribute to clinical governance, quality improvement initiatives, clinical audits and the development of guidelines and processes that improve patient flow. * Inspire clinical excellence: Provide expert clinical leadership, mentoring and education to support colleagues. About you:
You are an experienced and motivated Nurse Practitioner with advanced emergency nursing expertise, strong clinical judgement and a passion for delivering exceptional patient care. You thrive in a dynamic environment, confidently manage complex clinical presentations and enjoy empowering teams to achieve the best possible outcomes. You have: * Advanced clinical expertise: Demonstrate extensive specialist knowledge and advanced practice skills in emergency nursing, including the ability to assess, diagnose and manage patients across all clinical situations. * Autonomy and accountability: Apply sound clinical judgement and exercise independent decision-making within your approved scope of practice. * Leadership and collaboration: Build effective partnerships with patients, families and multidisciplinary teams, using your communication, problem-solving and leadership skills to support positive patient experiences and outcomes. * Commitment to excellence and improvement: Demonstrate a proactive approach to professional development, clinical education, research and quality improvement. 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. Redland Hospital:
Redland Hospital is the major health centre for adults and children in the Redlands and Brisbane's southern bayside suburbs. We provide a range of services including emergency care, primary health and minor injury care, acute and subacute medicine, general surgery, maternity and paediatric, mental specialist outpatient and mental health care.
It's an exciting time as our Redlands Coast community grows bringing a diverse range of patients & an opportunity to make a real difference in the community. The Emergency Department sees approximately 56,000 adult and paediatric presentations per year with an admission rate of approximately 18%.
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.