Children's Health Queensland Hospital and Health Service (CHQ HHS) is seeking a Clinical Nurse Consultant to provide clinical expertise and consultancy through advanced leadership in Paediatric Respiratory and Sleep Medicine. The role supports safe, high-quality care and exemplary nursing standards in the specialty.

The CNC will work with a multidisciplinary team, lead quality improvement, education, and research, and align with CHQ values and the Queensland Health awards to drive better

Children's Health Queensland Hospital and Health Service is seeking a Nurse Manager to coordinate and guide nursing management across the Patient Flow and Safety Unit, supporting operational and strategic goals.

You will coach staff to deliver high-quality paediatric care, lead in alignment with CHQ Leadership Excellence Framework, and contribute to safe patient journeys from admission to discharge across CHQ facilities.

Children's Health Queensland Hospital and Health Service (CHQ HHS) seeks a Nurse Manager, Business Planning to provide strategic leadership and expert advice across business planning, governance, and workforce planning. The role coordinates annual planning cycles and supports informed decision-making to drive sustainable service outcomes.

Working with Nursing Services and executive stakeholders, the successful candidate will deliver high quality analysis, reporting and continuous improvement

About the Role

• Clinically assess patients, arrange necessary investigations, surgical treatment, medical treatment and discharge under the supervision of consultants.
• Attend and assist with procedures and become competent in appropriate clinical and technical practice under supervision. This includes ultrasound for vascular access, lung, and cardiac.
• Maintain comprehensive, accurate and concise medical records for assigned patients.
• Ensure that discharge summaries and other correspondence are completed without delay and communication with other specialty teams and healthcare agencies is maintained.
• Work collaboratively with nursing staff and allied health professionals.
• Participate in clinical outreach services of the PICU i.e. assessment and management of children in other locations of the hospital.
• Participate in the registrar education program.
• Take part in audits and quality management meetings and initiatives of the PICU.
• Completes quality improvement activities by undertaking clinical audits and clinical risk management activities on an annual basis.
• Participate in bedside teaching of medical students on placement in the PICU.

Additional responsibilities for senior registrars:

• Participate in the Paediatric Retrieval Service (CHQRS)
• Supervise junior registrars to develop procedural skills and other ICU clinical skills

 About Children's Health Queensland Hospital and Health Service (CHQ HHS)

Children's Health Queensland is a recognised leader in paediatric healthcare, teaching and research, delivering a full range of clinical services and training, tertiary and quaternary care and health promotion programs to children and young people from across Queensland and northern New South Wales.   

Our interprofessional workforce of more than 5,000 people deliver responsive, integrated and internationally recognised person-centred care through a network of services and facilities, including the Queensland Children's Hospital, Jacaranda Place, Ellen Barron Family Centre, our Child and Youth Community Health Service, our Child and Youth Mental Health Service, and other statewide services and programs including specialist outreach and telehealth services.

Inclusion and diversity

To encourage inclusive practices in recruitment, we are committed to increasing our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workforce and building inclusive cultures that respect and promote human rights and Workforce Diversity and Inclusion. CHQ is an equal opportunity employer.

Some of the great benefits of working at CHQ HSS

If you're looking for a rewarding career, and you're excited to contribute to the development of Australia's best paediatric health service, come and join the team at CHQ and enjoy a range of benefits including:

• Opportunities for professional growth and development
• Competitive renumeration
• Annual pay increases
• 12.75% employer superannuation contribution
• 17.5% annual leave loading
• Salary packaging
• Employee wellness and assistance program
• Work/life balance, variety, and flexibility

You can find out more about why it's so great to work at CHQ HHS here.

About the Role

The Children's Health Queensland (CHQ) RN Pool is your chance to work across diverse specialist areas at a world-class, person-centred facility. The Nursing Pool provides a highly skilled and flexible paediatric workforce to meet the emergent, short term and peak demands for staffing for Children's Health Queensland Hospital and Health Service.

The key objectives of the service are:

• Safe, high quality and clinically effective specialist paediatric health care delivered in a clinically appropriate time as cost effectively as possible.
• An engaged, productive and harmonious workforce with the right qualifications, knowledge, skills and experience.
• A collaborative family-centred approach in which children, young people and their families are at the centre of all we do and are engaged with mutual respect and timely, open communication.
• Zero serious safety events in a culture where staff are constantly aware of the potential for harm, report problems, learn from experience, and strengthen the defences that protect patients, staff and others from harm.
• Consistent delivery of a patient experience that exceeds patients', families' and referrers' expectations.
• Continuous drive for innovation and improvements in the way holistic family-centred complex paediatric nursing care is provided.

 The Registered Nurse (RN) working at the QCH delivers safe compassionate clinical care, working collaboratively with the Healthcare team to achieve best practice patient outcomes. The RN engages in reflective, analytical practice through effective assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of direct person-centred care. Nursing Pool staff are recruited and managed to maintain the required level of competence to practice safely in the specialised areas in which they are deployed.  Pool nurses are aware of their personal responsibility to maintain a high level of competence in paediatric nursing and are provided with relevant opportunities for learning and professional development including performance development and planning (PDP).

About Children's Health Queensland Hospital and Health Service (CHQ HHS)

Children's Health Queensland is a recognised leader in paediatric healthcare, teaching and research, delivering a full range of clinical services and training, tertiary and quaternary care and health promotion programs to children and young people from across Queensland and northern New South Wales.   

Our interprofessional workforce of more than 5,000 people deliver responsive, integrated and internationally recognised person-centred care through a network of services and facilities, including the Queensland Children's Hospital, Jacaranda Place, Ellen Barron Family Centre, our Child and Youth Community Health Service, our Child and Youth Mental Health Service, and other statewide services and programs including specialist outreach and telehealth services.

Inclusion and diversity

To encourage inclusive practices in recruitment, we are committed to increasing our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workforce and building inclusive cultures that respect and promote human rights and Workforce Diversity and Inclusion. CHQ is an equal opportunity employer.

Some of the great benefits of working at CHQ HSS

If you're looking for a rewarding career, and you're excited to contribute to the development of Australia's best paediatric health service, come and join the team at CHQ and enjoy a range of benefits including:

• Opportunities for professional growth and development
• Competitive renumeration
• Annual pay increases
• 12.75% employer superannuation contribution
• 17.5% loading on your annual leave with up to 27.5% for shift workers.
• Salary packaging
• Employee wellness and assistance program
• Work/life balance, variety, and flexibility

You can find out more about why it's so great to work at CHQ HHS here.