Innisfail Hospital is a 49 bed rural hospital providing health care services at Level 3 – 4 within the Clinical Services Capability Framework. The Emergency Department is a busy rural department with approximately 1400 presentations per month. The Specialist Clinics area supports approximately 10 – 14 public and private visiting outreach specialist services. The Innisfail Chemotherapy unit within the Specialist clinic area operates 2 days per week providing medical oncology services.
Get paid to live in paradise and join Innisfail Hospitals Emergency Department, Specialist Clinics and Ambulatory Care team as a Nurse Unit Manager.
The Cairns and Hinterland Hospital and Health Service covers a large geographic area with a diverse and growing population. The Health Service provides a wide range of primary care, acute and specialist services.
Our staff are a part of the community we serve, and we strongly believe that health outcomes are enhanced by involving our community in the planning and evaluation of local health services.
About us:
Cairns and Hinterland Hospital and Health Service covers an area of 142,900 square kilometres. We go as far as Tully in the south, Cow Bay in the north and Croydon in the west.
About your opportunity:
In this position you will be accountable at an advanced practice level for the coordination of meeting best practice standards for clinical practice, patient centred care within a multidisciplinary team for the Emergency Department, Specialist Clinics and Ambulatory care areas through role specific expertise and the provision of effective and efficient human and material resources.
About your role:
- Provide effective and efficient management of service in collaboration with the Director of Nursing, clinical and non-clinical staff to facilitate the provision of quality evidence based care.
- Provide leadership to effectively plan, manage and evaluate health services to achieve organisational goals.
- Accountable for providing sound professional leadership in dealing with significant issues related to assessment, planning, review, evaluation and coordination of service programs in a defined practice area for groups and individuals with diverse requirements.
- Effectively manage self and in collaboration with Nurse Educators and other Nurse Unit Managers and develop staff to enable fulfilment of role responsibilities.
As a Cairns and Hinterland Hospital and Health Service employee, not only will you receive competitive remuneration, you will also have access to:
- Generous superannuation
- Salary packaging
- Annual incremental increases
- Career training and development
- Flexible work arrangements
- Wellness programs
Vaccine Preventable Diseases (VPD) evidence as required for your employment in accordance with legislation/government policy and Directives.
For more information about this role, please refer to the attached Role Description.
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You can find out more about why it's so great to work at Cairns and Hinterland here: https://www.health.qld.gov.au/cairns_hinterland
Further information
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Documents
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