Ready to lead with impact in a role that blends clinical expertise, leadership, and real connection to community care? As an Associate Nurse Unit Manager at Dalby Health Service, you’ll be at the heart of a collaborative, rural healthcare team—empowered to make critical decisions, support your colleagues, and drive high-quality patient outcomes. If you're looking for a role where your voice matters and every shift brings purpose, this is your opportunity to thrive.
What your day will look like….
You'll be the go-to leader for guiding nursing teams through complex care scenarios and ensuring safe, timely, and effective service delivery. Your day will be a balance of hands-on clinical coordination, mentoring staff, and managing hospital capacity—all while navigating challenges with a calm, solutions-focused mindset. You'll contribute to workforce planning, emergency response, quality improvement, and continuous professional development. Whether you're resolving clinical incidents, supporting patient flow, or fostering a supportive environment for team learning and growth, every action you take will help drive better health outcomes for the community.
Let's talk about you!
Our ideal candidate will be someone who can inspire the following:
Compassion – you will engage with others and demonstrate empathy, care, kindness, support and understanding.
Integrity – you are open, honest, approachable, equitable and consistent in everything we do.
Dignity – you treat others with respect, display reasonableness and take pride in what you do.
Innovation – you embrace change and strive to know more, learn more and do better.
Courage – you respectfully question for clarity and have the strength and confidence to Speak Up.
Why Us?
Darling Downs Health's (DDH) region is a large geographic area covering approximately 90,000 square kilometres across Southeast Queensland. We are one of the largest employers in the region, with a diverse team of more than 6,000 staff. We deliver frontline health services across our 30 facilities and care for nearly 300,000 people, support the birth of almost 3,000 babies and perform more than 15,000 breastscreens.
We offer rewarding career opportunities across a wide range of clinical and non-clinical areas throughout our health service and pride ourselves on providing a work culture that values and respects diversity in the workplace. We also believe that all our employees should be treated fairly, with dignity and with respect. DDH is committed to providing a safe, secure, supportive, and inclusive workplace.
Benefits!
Competitive wages, salary packaging and leave entitlements
A diverse work culture
Career development
Professional development opportunities
Education opportunities, Study and Research
Paid parental leave
Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
Discounted Private Health Insurance
Fitness Passport
Work-Life Balance, Variety and Flexibility
Generous Salary Sacrificing
Next step….
Applicants are to apply online and supply the requested documentation.
Find out more about us!
Work with Us | Rural (PDF) ( https://www.darlingdowns.health.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0017/104741/5550-workforusrural.pdf )
Work with Us | Toowoomba (PDF) ( https://www.darlingdowns.health.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0024/104739/Team-Darling-Downs-Toowoomba.pdf )
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