Nurse Unit Manager

5 days ago


Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia Darling Downs Hospital and Health Service Full time

Darling Downs Health is seeking a Nurse Unit Manager to lead Medical Unit 5 in Toowoomba, offering a chance to guide a committed team and drive safe, person-centred care. This leadership role focuses on enhancing patient outcomes, team development, and service excellence.

What Your Day Will Look Like….

As Nurse Unit Manager, you'll lead a passionate team to deliver safe, consumer-focused care while ensuring resources are effectively managed. You'll mentor staff, drive clinical excellence, and foster a culture of continuous learning and improvement. Your leadership will shape daily decision-making, guide quality initiatives, and support a collaborative, high-performing environment.

Let's talk about you

Our ideal candidate will be someone who can inspire the following:

  • Compassion – you will engage with others and demonstrate empathy, care, kindness, support and understanding.
  • Integrity – you are open, honest, approachable, equitable and consistent in everything we do.
  • Dignity – you treat others with respect, display reasonableness and take pride in what you do.
  • Innovation – you embrace change and strive to know more, learn more and do better.
  • Courage – you respectfully question for clarity and have the strength and confidence to Speak Up.

Why Us?

Darling Downs Health's (DDH) region is a large geographic area covering approximately 90,000 square kilometres across Southeast Queensland. We are one of the largest employers in the region, with a diverse team of more than 6,000 staff. We deliver frontline health services across our 30 facilities and care for nearly 300,000 people, support the birth of almost 3,000 babies and perform more than 15,000 breastscreens.

We offer rewarding career opportunities across a wide range of clinical and non-clinical areas throughout our health service and pride ourselves on providing a work culture that values and respects diversity in the workplace. We also believe that all our employees should be treated fairly, with dignity and with respect. DDH is committed to providing a safe, secure, supportive, and inclusive workplace.

Benefits
  • Competitive wages, salary packaging and leave entitlements
  • A diverse work culture
  • Career development
  • Professional development opportunities
  • Education opportunities, Study and Research
  • Paid parental leave
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
  • Discounted Private Health Insurance
  • Fitness Passport
  • Work-Life Balance, Variety and Flexibility
  • Generous Salary Sacrificing

Next step….

Applicants are to apply online and supply the requested documentation.

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