Clinical Nurse Consultant - REST (Rehabilitation Engagement & Safety Team)

Your new role:

As the Clinical Nurse Consultant, you'll be a recognised clinical leader, providing expert nursing care, consultancy and guidance to support exceptional patient outcomes within Queensland Spinal Cord Injuries Service. You'll work collaboratively with nursing, allied health and psychology teams to drive evidence-based practice, support innovation and strengthen rehabilitation services.

In this role you will:

Provide advanced clinical leadership and expert nursing care within spinal cord injury rehabilitation.

Partner with multidisciplinary teams to deliver person-centred, evidence-based care.

Support patients, families and staff through expert clinical consultancy and education.

Lead quality improvement, service development and clinical practice initiatives.

Mentor, coach and develop nursing staff while fostering a positive learning culture.

Collaborate with the Advanced Clinical Psychologist (REST) to improve patient engagement, minimise distress and support behavioural care strategies.

Drive research, innovation and continuous improvement to enhance rehabilitation outcomes.

About you:

You're an experienced Registered Nurse who is passionate about rehabilitation and enjoys leading others to deliver outstanding patient care. You bring advanced clinical expertise, strong leadership skills and a collaborative approach that inspires excellence across multidisciplinary teams.

You'll be successful if you have:

Extensive experience in spinal cord injury, rehabilitation or a related specialist clinical setting.

Advanced clinical judgement with the ability to manage complex patient care.

Strong leadership, coaching and mentoring skills that support team development.

Excellent communication, collaboration and stakeholder engagement skills.

A commitment to evidence-based practice, quality improvement and innovation.

A passion for delivering compassionate, person-centred care and improving patient outcomes.

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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 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.

About us:

The Spinal Injuries Unit (SIU) provides inpatient specialist acute and rehabilitation management, in addition to outpatient services, for people with spinal cord injuries as part of the statewide Queensland Spinal Cord Injuries Service (QSCIS). Rehabilitation services are provided incorporating person-centred goal planning using an interdisciplinary professional team model.

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.

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