Clinical Nurse - Coordinator Spinal Injuries

Make an Impact in Spinal Injury Care

Join Queensland’s specialist spinal cord injury service and provide expert, person-centred care across outpatient and inpatient pathways. A unique opportunity to lead, coordinate and shape specialist nursing practice.

About This Role

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Join the Spinal Injuries Outpatient Department within the Queensland Spinal Cord Injuries Service, providing specialist care to patients across Queensland. As a Clinical Nurse, you'll combine advanced clinical practice with leadership, coordination, education and service improvement to deliver safe, person-centred spinal injury care. You will:

Provide expert assessment, care planning and coordination for people with complex spinal injuries.Lead and/or collaborate in specialist outpatient clinics, including wound assessment and interim external fixation management.Provide clinical leadership, mentoring and support to nurses and the broader multidisciplinary team.Contribute to quality improvement, clinical audits, education, research and implementation of evidence-based practice.

About You

You're an experienced Registered Nurse who brings strong spinal injury knowledge, sound clinical judgement and a genuine commitment to person-centred care. You're confident working autonomously, leading others and identifying opportunities to improve patient outcomes and service delivery. You will:

Bring more than two years' specialist spinal injury experience, with strong assessment, care planning and complex clinical management skills.Confidently coordinate care, delegate effectively, mentor colleagues and support a high-performing team.Use strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills to manage complex situations, assess risk and make evidence-informed clinical decisions.Contribute to the development of others through education, mentoring, audits, research, innovation and continuous improvement.

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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 roleYou'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.

About Us

The Princess Alexandra Hospital (PAH) is a tertiary health care centre providing care in most major adult specialties. We provide world class health care to Brisbane City's southern suburbs across emergency, medical, mental health and surgical services, including liver and kidney transplant.

We are nationally recognised for our expertise in trauma management and organ transplants and are one of Australia's leading academic and research health centres. The PAH as a major medical research precinct hosts Australia's most advanced medical research facility, the Translational Research Institute (TRI) as well as a new Clinical Research Facility for the discoveries made at TRI to be trialed in a safe clinical environment.

We're expanding our hospital to make sure everyone gets the care they need. We're adding more beds, modernising our buildings, and improving our spaces to treat kidney and cancer patients with all new services and facilities planned to open by 2027.

INTEGRITY | COMPASSION | ACCOUNTABILITY | RESPECT | ENGAGEMENT | EXCELLENCE

Our values were created by employees for employees to shape our culture and inspire positive interactions in the workplace. Diversity of ideas, skills, traditions, and customs is celebrated as one of our greatest strengths. Having a workforce that reflects and understands the needs and expectations of our community is important to delivering safe, kinder, and more inclusive care.

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 better together.

Further information

We are committed to building inclusive cultures in the Queensland public sector that respect and promote human rights and diversity.

Applicants are encouraged to apply online. Please review the Role Description for more information on application process requirements. Agency referrals will not be accepted for this position.