Clinical Nurse Consultant Paediatric Surgery

The purpose of this role is to provide clinical expertise and consultancy through advanced clinical leadership relevant to the speciality of paediatric surgery. The Clinical Nurse Consultant (CNC) provides direct and indirect care as required and works in collaboration with the Nurse Unit Manager, Nurse Educator and wider health care team support the clinical unit in provision of safe quality healthcare through exemplary clinical nursing standards of practice for the specialty of paediatric surgery.

About The Team
The Division of Surgery & Perioperative Services at CHQ provides a comprehensive state-wide consultant-led tertiary referral service providing ambulatory, emergency, and in-patient care. The multiple specialty teams provide quaternary care for pre-term infants, babies, children, and young people requiring emergency, urgent and planned acute care. The Paediatric Surgical services (including Urology), provide surgical care and input for a variety of complex congenital abnormalities and lifelong diseases. It works closely with a variety of Allied Health teams and Physicians to inform care pathways and collaborate with other surgical disciplines to plan and undertake complex multi-organ surgeries. More broadly, the service is integrated with the Paediatric Burns service and the Trauma and Family Support service. The unit also provides specialist paediatric care for inpatients and outpatients at QCH, Mater NICU, and RBWH NICU, and manages children with bowel/bladder stomas, surgical urology needs, complex wounds, pressure injuries, and surgical gastrostomies, including neonates under the PSUB team.

About The Role
You'll fulfil the responsibilities of this role in accordance with Schedule 2, Nurses and Midwives (Queensland Health) Award - State Generic Level Statements (GLS) Nurse Grade 7 and the Queensland Health and Children's Health Queensland Hospital and Health Service (CHQHHS) commitments and values, in achievement of the organisational goals and Domains of Practice.

Your Contribution Will Include

• Direct comprehensive care or provision of direct care
• Support of Systems
• Education
• Research
• Professional Leadership

Refer to the Role Description for more information.

About Children's Health Queensland Hospital and Health Service (CHQ HHS)
Children's Health Queensland is a recognised leader in paediatric healthcare, teaching and research, delivering a full range of clinical services and training, tertiary and quaternary care and health promotion programs to children and young people from across Queensland and northern New South Wales.

Our interprofessional workforce of more than 5,000 people deliver responsive, integrated and internationally recognised person-centred care through a network of services and facilities, including the Queensland Children's Hospital , Jacaranda Place, Ellen Barron Family Centre, our Child and Youth Community Health Service , our Child and Youth Mental Health Service , and other statewide services and programs including specialist outreach and telehealth services.

Inclusion and diversity
To encourage inclusive practices in recruitment, we are committed to increasing our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workforce and building inclusive cultures that respect and promote human rights and Workforce Diversity and Inclusion. CHQ is an equal opportunity employer.

Some of the great benefits of working at CHQ HSS
Benefits
If you're looking for a rewarding career, and you're excited to contribute to the development of Australia's best paediatric health service, come and join the team at CHQ and enjoy a range of benefits including:

• Opportunities for professional growth and development
• Competitive renumeration
• Annual pay increases
• 12.75% employer superannuation contribution
• 17.5% annual leave loading
• Salary packaging
• Employee wellness and assistance program
• Work/life balance, variety, and flexibility

You can find out more about why it's so great to work at CHQ HHS here .

Occupational group
Health - Nursing