Your new role:
As the Nurse Unit Manager – Perioperative Services, you will lead and coordinate a complex clinical service, with responsibility for:
* Providing advanced clinical and professional leadership across perioperative services including theatres, PACU, anaesthetics, acute pain, surgical admissions and pre-operative services
* Leading safe, high-quality care aligned with NMBA standards, national safety standards and Metro South Health frameworks
* Managing human, material and financial resources, including cost centre and workforce planning
* Driving service improvement, innovation, and evidence-based practice to meet performance targets and patient outcomes
* Fostering a positive, learning-focused culture that supports education, research, succession planning and staff development
* Working collaboratively with multidisciplinary stakeholders to achieve best practice surgical and perioperative care
About you:
To be successful in this role, you will bring advanced perioperative expertise and strong leadership capability, with:
* Current registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia as a Registered Nurse
* Extensive perioperative services experience with demonstrated advanced clinical knowledge and autonomous practice
* Proven experience in operational leadership, including rostering, workforce management and budget accountability
* Strong interpersonal, communication and negotiation skills to lead teams and influence positive culture
* Experience driving quality improvement, achieving KPIs and managing change in complex healthcare environments
* A commitment to person-centred care, professional excellence and developing others
* (Postgraduate qualifications in a relevant specialty are highly desirable)
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What we can offer you:
* Flexible working arrangements that support work-life balance
* A diverse, inclusive workplace that reflects and supports the community it serves
* Access to education, leadership development and research opportunities within a recognised teaching and research health service
* 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:
Logan Hospital:
Logan Hospital is the major health centre for one of the fastest growing areas in Queensland. We offer a range of services, including medical, rehabilitation, maternity, surgical and paediatric care.
We offer our staff and students extensive support and training in most medical specialties. As a teaching hospital, we help train future health care professionals and participate in research through strong partnerships with Queensland's leading medical schools, universities, and TAFE Queensland.
Our services will continue to grow as we build bigger and better facilities to support the community. By 2027, we'll have more beds and 5 more birthing suites as part of the Logan Hospital expansion.
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.