Clinical Leadership Opportunity | Geriatric Rehabilitation in Princess Alexandra Hospital

Are you an experienced Registered Nurse ready to lead in complex geriatric rehabilitation care? This Clinical Nurse (Grade 6.1) role offers the opportunity to practise autonomously, provide clinical leadership, and drive excellence in person-centred care within a supportive multidisciplinary team environment.

Your new role:

As a Clinical Nurse (CN), you will deliver advanced clinical care to geriatric patients with complex needs while providing leadership across clinical practice, education, research, and quality improvement. Practising autonomously, you will play a pivotal role in coordinating care, supporting staff, and ensuring high standards aligned with organisational values and the Professional Practice Model.

This role reports operationally and professionally to the Cassia Nurse Unit Manager and assumes leadership responsibilities in their absence.

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver expert, comprehensive, person-centred geriatric rehabilitation nursing care
• Lead clinical decision-making and coordinate complex patient care
• Provide supervision, delegation, and mentorship to nursing staff and students
• Support shift coordination, rostering, and team performance in collaboration with leadership
• Drive quality improvement initiatives, incident review, and risk mitigation strategies

About you:

You are a confident and capable clinical leader with advanced expertise in geriatric rehabilitation nursing. You thrive in complex environments, apply critical thinking to clinical challenges, and are passionate about delivering high-quality, compassionate care.

You lead by example, foster collaboration, and are committed to continuous improvement in practice, education, and service delivery.

• Advanced clinical knowledge in geriatric evaluation and rehabilitation nursing
• Demonstrated high-level assessment, care planning, and evaluation skills for complex patients
• Strong clinical leadership, delegation, and team coordination capabilities
• Proven ability in quality improvement, audits, and risk management processes
• Experience applying evidence-based practice and contemporary nursing theory
• Highly developed communication and relationship-building skills
• Commitment to professional standards, patient-centred care, and organisational values

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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:

Cassia Ward provides care for inpatients undertaking the rehabilitation program as well as geriatric inpatients requiring comprehensive medical assessment and follow up. The Geriatric Rehabilitation Unit is a tertiary referral unit that consists of 26 beds. The unit provide excellent care by providing specialised holistic nursing care in conjunction with medical staff, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, social workers, speech pathologists and other health professionals as required by the patient's needs.

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.