About the role
Your new role
Bring your advanced clinical expertise and passion for diabetes care to the Logan Endocrine and Diabetes Service (LEADS), where you'll provide specialist leadership, support high-quality patient outcomes and help shape contemporary diabetes and endocrine nursing practice by:
- Providing expert clinical consultation and person-centred care for patients with diabetes and endocrine conditions.
- Leading clinical practice, supporting complex clinical decision-making and promoting evidence-based care.
- Mentoring, coaching and educating nurses and the wider multidisciplinary team to strengthen clinical capability.
- Driving quality improvement, clinical innovation and the implementation of best-practice guidelines.
- Supporting research, service development and collaborative care across the patient journey.
About you
You're a confident and collaborative nursing professional who brings strong specialist knowledge, sound clinical judgement and a commitment to improving outcomes for people living with diabetes. You'll demonstrate your capability through:
- Current registration as a Registered Nurse with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA) and a tertiary nursing qualification.
- Advanced clinical knowledge and experience in diabetes and endocrine nursing, including contemporary diabetes treatments and their outcomes.
- Strong clinical leadership, communication, critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
- A commitment to evidence-based practice, patient and staff education, research and continuous quality improvement.
- Current Credentialled Diabetes Educator status with the Australian Diabetes Educators Association (ADEA).
- Knowledge of insulin pump therapy and continuous glucose monitoring, which is highly desirable.
- A relevant postgraduate qualification, or current enrolment in a postgraduate program, is also highly desirable.
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What we can offer you
- The opportunity to use your specialist expertise to influence clinical practice and improve patient outcomes.
- Opportunities to mentor colleagues, strengthen team capability and contribute to service innovation and research.
- A supportive, multidisciplinary environment that values collaboration, professional excellence and person-centred care.
- Access to ongoing learning and development opportunities to support your professional growth.
- Flexible working arrangements that support work life balance, where operationally feasible.
- 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.
Logan Hospital
Logan Hospital is the major health centre for one of the fastest growing areas in Queensland. We offer a range of services, including medical, rehabilitation, maternity, surgical and paediatric care.
We offer our staff and students extensive support and training in most medical specialties. As a teaching hospital, we help train future health care professionals and participate in research through strong partnerships with Queensland's leading medical schools, universities, and TAFE Queensland.
Our services will continue to grow as we build bigger and better facilities to support the community. By 2027, we'll have more beds and 5 more birthing suites as part of the Logan Hospital expansion.
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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