About the role
The Mater Mothers’ Hospital has an exciting opportunity for a Neonatal Clinical Nurse Specialist to join their Neonatal Critical Care Unit. This role is available in either full-time or part-time capacity and is a permanent position, based at our South Brisbane Campus.
The Neonatal Clinical Nurse Specialist is a registered nurse with expertise in guiding nursing and midwifery staff in delivering comprehensive patient/family-centred care and contemporary nursing practices. This individual serves as a critical care resource with leadership in clinical practice, research, education, and ensuring patient safety and quality healthcare. The role involves managing patient care and supporting staff from various disciplines to enhance healthcare delivery and meet the highest standards of care for vulnerable populations.
Salary range: $66.85 – $72.58 (RN3) per hour plus 12% superannuation and access to not-for-profit salary packaging up to $15,900 + access to many staff benefits!
What you’ll be doing
- To provide clinical support 24 hours per day for High risk/complex neonatal patients and their families across MMH
- Collaborate with the multidisciplinary team with the aim to keep the mother baby dyad together when baby is requiring additional care/monitoring or observations
- Provide organisational awareness of the most at-risk infants/families and to communicate this to leadership within business hours and afterhours management including at medical handover and safety huddles
- Provide direct patient care when required to facilitate clinical transfers of babies on postnatal floors to different areas for care or investigations
- Reviewing of babies identified with additional needs, care requirements or follow-up before discharge from postnatal floors
- Support palliative care infants, their families and midwifery and nursing staff with assessment, symptom management and coordination of care
- Proficiency in completing baby checks for babies on the postnatal floors before discharge
- Demonstrate competency in the delivering of advanced clinical skills (e.g. PIVC insertion)
- Educate the multi-disciplinary team on specifics of neonatal care to improve care outcomes and family experience
- Assist with neonatal programs across MMH (NBS)
- Support the neonatal team with provision of antenatal counselling for non-case managed women with high-risk pregnancies
About you
You will have extensive experience practicing as a Neonatal Nurse with complex and unwell babies with the ability to provide expert clinical advice. You will bring extensive leadership experience within a in a complex hospital environment paired with excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills.
Essential qualifications
- Current registration with APHRA
- Minimum of 5 years+ experience in Neonatal Critical care
- Neonatal qualification (graduate certificate or higher)
Desired qualifications
- Experience in clinical leadership
- Experience in quality improvement or research
- Master’s qualification or working towards
Why join us?
Mater is Queensland’s largest not-for-profit healthcare provider, delivering exceptional care to nearly 700,000 patients each year across 11 (soon to be 12) hospitals. We’re leaders in healthcare, education, fundraising & philanthropy and research — and it’s our people who make the difference.
We’re looking for passionate individuals to join our team and help shape the future of care. At Mater, you’ll be part of a purpose-driven organisation that values innovation, compassion, and excellence.
- Increase your take-home pay with generous salary packaging options, including meal and entertainment benefits
- Grow your career with access to industry-leading training and professional development through Mater Education
- Wellbeing support through our Employee Assistance Program and on-site pastoral care teams
- Access a range of health and wellbeing services with a corporate discount on private health insurance
- Exclusive discounts across dining, retail, travel, accommodation (just to name a few!)
- Stay active with unlimited access to discounted gyms via the Fitness Passport program
- Convenient, discounted on-site parking
- Enjoy great food with reduced prices at our campus cafés and coffee spots
- Join Queensland’s Largest and Most Innovative Not-for-Profit Healthcare Team
Be part of something bigger. Make your move with Mater. #MAKEYOURMATERMOVE
Applications close on Thursday the 10th of July 2025. Please note, we may contact applicants prior to the closing date, please do not hesitate to APPLY NOW!
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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