Patient Flow Program | Lead System-Wide Care Coordination
Drive patient flow, lead high-performing teams, and shape safe, efficient care delivery across a complex health service. This role is critical in leading change, strengthening partnerships, and ensuring seamless, person‐centred patient journeys across the service.
About This Role
The Assistant Director of Nursing (ADON) – Patient Flow provides strategic and operational leadership across the Patient Flow Program, including Bed Management, Transit Care Hub and After Hours Nurse Manager Service. You will lead multidisciplinary teams, ensure safe staffing and patient access, and drive performance against service, quality and financial targets. With accountability for governance, resource management and service delivery, you will use data and contemporary models of care to improve patient outcomes and system efficiency.
About You
You are an experienced and strategic nursing leader with a strong track record in patient flow, service optimisation and clinical governance, capable of leading multidisciplinary teams, managing complex operations and driving system‐wide improvements in care delivery. You will have:
* Proven leadership in patient flow, bed management and access
* Strong governance, risk and quality improvement expertise
* Advanced data analysis and performance management capability
* Experience managing budgets, resources and workforce planning
* Highly developed stakeholder engagement and change leadership skills
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.
The Patient Flow Program
The Patient Flow Program improves patient flow and care coordination across Logan and Beaudesert Health Service and Metro South Health.
It Includes
* Bed Management Unit: Manages patient movement across acute beds
* Transit Care Hub: Supports admissions, transfers and discharges
* After Hours Nurse Manager Service: Oversees staffing, operations and escalations 24/7
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 committed to building inclusive cultures in the Queensland public sector that respect and promote human rights and diversity.
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