About the role
About the Role
The Children's Health Queensland (CHQ) RN Pool is your chance to work across diverse specialist areas at a world-class, person-centred facility. The Nursing Pool provides a highly skilled and flexible paediatric workforce to meet the emergent, short term and peak demands for staffing for Children's Health Queensland Hospital and Health Service.
The key objectives of the service are:
- Safe, high quality and clinically effective specialist paediatric health care delivered in a clinically appropriate time as cost effectively as possible.
- An engaged, productive and harmonious workforce with the right qualifications, knowledge, skills and experience.
- A collaborative family-centred approach in which children, young people and their families are at the centre of all we do and are engaged with mutual respect and timely, open communication.
- Zero serious safety events in a culture where staff are constantly aware of the potential for harm, report problems, learn from experience, and strengthen the defences that protect patients, staff and others from harm.
- Consistent delivery of a patient experience that exceeds patients', families' and referrers' expectations.
- Continuous drive for innovation and improvements in the way holistic family-centred complex paediatric nursing care is provided.
The Registered Nurse (RN) working at the QCH delivers safe compassionate clinical care, working collaboratively with the Healthcare team to achieve best practice patient outcomes. The RN engages in reflective, analytical practice through effective assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of direct person-centred care. Nursing Pool staff are recruited and managed to maintain the required level of competence to practice safely in the specialised areas in which they are deployed. Pool nurses are aware of their personal responsibility to maintain a high level of competence in paediatric nursing and are provided with relevant opportunities for learning and professional development including performance development and planning (PDP).
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
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% loading on your annual leave with up to 27.5% for shift workers.
- 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.