The Team
The Emergency Preparedness and Response team supports Hospitals South to strengthen emergency readiness across clinical services. The team works closely with service leadership, multidisciplinary teams, operational stakeholders, and external agencies to improve preparedness, coordinate response arrangements, and support safe, effective care during emergencies and major incidents.
The Role
This is a unique opportunity to help shape emergency preparedness across Hospitals South and make a real system-wide impact on patient safety, workforce readiness, and service resilience. The role offers variety, professional autonomy, and the chance to work with senior leaders, multidisciplinary teams, and external emergency partners to strengthen how services prepare for and respond to emergencies and major incidents.
As the Clinical Nurse Consultant, Emergency Preparedness and Response, you will help drive planning, training, exercises, reviews, and continuous improvement activities that strengthen preparedness and support safe, effective emergency response.
You will need
* Demonstrated senior clinical expertise and professional leadership as a Registered Nurse, with experience providing high‐level clinical consultation, advice, and education related to emergency preparedness, response, or complex clinical risk environments.
* Proven ability to contribute to the development, implementation, and evaluation of emergency preparedness and response policies, plans, procedures, exercises, or quality improvement initiatives within a healthcare setting.
* Demonstrated experience supporting operational preparedness activities, including coordination of training, drills, exercises, audits, reviews, or post‐incident evaluations, in collaboration with clinical and operational stakeholders.
Details of appointment
Permanent, full time, day worker position, working 76 hours per fortnight, commencing as soon as possible. (Hours to be negotiated with the successful applicant.) Applicants should note that, for a period of twelve months from the date of publication, this selection process may be used to fill subsequent or similar full time, part time, and casual vacancies.
Salary
$118,297 to $125,543 per annum. Our employer 12% superannuation contribution is on top of this amount. Salary range is in accordance with Nurses and Midwives (Tasmania State Service) Agreement 2023.
Salary Packaging
You'll have access to salary packaging that includes living expenses up to $9,010 and $2,650 in meal entertainment each FBT year, plus other benefits if eligible.
Benefits
* Travel and relocation assistance support up to $10,000 for appointees from interstate.
* Professional development and accelerated pathways.
* A range of leave entitlements, including study leave and Professional Development Support.
* Fitness Passport – family access to 40+ fitness facilities across Tasmania for $14.50 per week per person, or $28.05 for a family.
* Carer Accredited Employer Status – support for employees with caring responsibilities (see Carer Recognition Act 2023).
Eligibility
Successful applicants will be required to meet the essential criteria: Registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia as a Registered Nurse.
Desirable criteria: Relevant postgraduate qualification in Emergency Management, Healthcare Management, Education and/or Quality Improvement.
We strongly encourage applicants from key communities including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, LGBTIQA+ people, and people living with disabilities.
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