About the role
Mater Hospital Brisbane Emergency Department has a unique and exciting opportunity, for an experienced Emergency Department Nurse Manager. This role will be offered at a permanent full-time basis, 38 hours a week with an immediate start is available.
The department offers a 24-hour comprehensive emergency service for adult patients, staffed by experienced emergency doctors, nurse practitioners, nurses, training registrars and house officers. The department provides care to adolescents and adults with a full range of acute illness and injuries.
Mater Hospital Brisbane Emergency Department see 60,000 adult patients per year working within a bed platform of 14 acute and 14 short stay beds with additional fast track capacity.
Salary range: $71.42 - $76.81 per hour plus 11.5% superannuation and access to not-for-profit salary packaging up to $15,900 + access to many staff benefits!
What you’ll be doing
As the leader of this team, you will provide exceptional nursing management and be responsible for the clinical, resource management, education, research, and material accountabilities of nursing within this area. Additionally, in conjunction with the medical leadership of the service, you will ensure the provision of best practice, quality, and safety aspects of patient care.
Other duties and responsibilities include:
- Caring for and leading a team of professionals
- Communication and coordination of patient care
- Engagement with stakeholders in other departments to ensure the highest quality patient care, that services are efficient, that patient safety is optimized, and to resolve barriers to patient flow.
- Team management, including performance management and compliance with Human Resources processes.
- Delivery of work against relevant timeframes
About you
You will be an experienced leader and will drive innovation in your field; using evidence-based research to suggest new ways of doing things and take a positive and adaptive approach to embedding change.
Other skills and responsibilities include:
- Extensive experience in Emergency with sound clinical expertise & leadership
- Current AHPRA Nursing registration
- Post graduate qualification in emergency or critical care nursing.
- Ability to demonstrate strong capability in leading both the clinical and commercial aspects of a tertiary service.
- High level communication skills within a multidisciplinary environment
- Demonstrated competence in cost centre management.
Why join us?
Mater is Queensland’s largest and most innovative not-for-profit healthcare service, providing care for almost 700,000 patients a year across a network of 11 hospitals.
We are a leader in healthcare, education and research — and that’s because we employ exceptional people. #MAKEYOURMATERMOVE
- Via salary packaging arrangements, allocate some living expenses directly from your pre-taxable income and ultimately increase your take-home pay
- Access to package meal and entertainment expenses via salary packaging
- Access to leading education and professional development via Mater Education
- Access to our Employee Assistance Program and on-site pastoral care teams
- Discounts to local and national business/venues for Dining/Retail/Travel & Accommodation/Other
- Unlimited access to a multitude of discounted fitness facilities through Fitness Passport
- Access to on-site, discounted parking
- Discounted food and beverage at various campus cafés and coffee venues
- Access to gym, pool and end of trip facilities within our new purpose-built corporate office in Newstead
For more information regarding the role, please contact Roslyn Gavin at Roslyn.Gavin@mater.org.au
Please view position description 
Mater Health PD - Nurse Manager ED.pdf
Applications close Monday 13th January 2025. Please note, we may contact applications prior to the closing date, please do not hesitate to APPLY NOW!
Please be advised that our recruitment process may be temporarily paused for the holiday period and we will begin contacting applicants again in January 2025. We appreciate your patience and look forward to connecting with you at that time.
Mater is committed to the wellbeing of their staff, and it is underpinned by our flexible and remote working policies.
Please Note: We will not require any support from Recruitment Agencies at this time and kindly request no contact is made. Only direct applications will be considered.
Mater Group is dedicated to creating a workplace that values diversity and inclusion. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds and abilities. We believe in providing equal opportunities for all qualified candidates.
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