Clinical Nurse

Clinical Nurse Leader – Cancer Trials, Princess Alexandra Hospital
Join a highly specialised Cancer Trials Unit as a Clinical Nurse – Clinical Trial Coordinator, where your advanced clinical expertise, leadership, and research coordination skills will directly support patients with complex haematology and oncology needs. This role offers autonomy, influence, and the opportunity to contribute to cutting-edge clinical research that changes lives.
About This Role
Your new role:

As a Clinical Nurse – Clinical Trial Coordinator, you will provide expert clinical leadership and advanced coordination for haematology clinical trials across the Division of Cancer Services. You will work autonomously while collaborating closely with investigators, research nurses, multidisciplinary teams, and external partners to ensure safe, ethical, and high-quality trial delivery.

You will be pivotal in supporting trial participants and their families, overseeing protocol implementation, maintaining data integrity, and ensuring compliance with national and international clinical research standards.

Key Responsibilities Include

• Coordinating complex haematology clinical trials from referral through to completion
• Delivering advanced, person-centred nursing care to trial participants
• Providing clinical leadership, mentoring, and support to research and nursing staff
• Ensuring compliance with Good Clinical Practice (GCP), ethical, and governance requirements

About You
You are an experienced and confident Registered Nurse with strong clinical judgement and a passion for clinical research and patient advocacy. You thrive in complex environments, work collaboratively, and bring a high level of attention to detail and professional integrity to your practice.

You Will Bring

• Advanced clinical experience in haematology, oncology, or clinical trial coordination
• Strong knowledge of ICH Good Clinical Practice and ethical research standards
• Proven ability to manage complex protocols, data accuracy, and safety reporting
• Excellent leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills

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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 Division of Cancer Services - Cancer Trials Unit (DOCS CTU) of the Princess Alexandra Hospital (PAH) is dedicated to providing a high quality service for the delivery of clinical research treatments for patients with cancer. The research conducted explores questions of optimal drug use, novel combination chemotherapies, targeted therapies, radiation therapy, new diagnostic tests, prognostic indices, best supportive care, molecular predictors of response and cost effectiveness. The aims of CTU are to offer patients with cancer access to new treatments or treatments that would be otherwise unavailable to them, and to contribute answers to important scientific questions to the cancer care community.

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
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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.