Your new role: As the Nurse Unit Manager, you will provide advanced leadership to the Central Sterilising Department, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, safe, and efficient sterilisation services that support exceptional patient outcomes. Key responsibilities include: Leading and coordinating the Central Sterilising Department, ensuring best practice in the reprocessing of reusable medical devices. Overseeing human, material and financial resources, ensuring efficient and sustainable service delivery. Driving quality, safety, and service improvement activities aligned with organisational standards and National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards. Fostering a positive, collaborative team culture that supports education, capability development and succession planning across the workforce. About you: You are an experienced nursing leader with advanced clinical knowledge in sterilisation services and the capability to lead a large, multi-disciplinary team in a complex clinical environment. You will bring: Advanced specialist knowledge and experience in sterilisation services, reprocessing standards, and evidence-informed practice. Demonstrated capability in operational leadership, including HR management, rostering, and resource optimisation. Strong communication, negotiation and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build team engagement and lead change. A strategic, improvement-focused mindset, with experience implementing quality, safety, and service-improvement initiatives to enhance patient outcomes and operational efficiency. Check out our quick tips and application essentials! 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: Princess Alexandra Hospital: The Princess Alexandra Hospital (PAH) is a tertiary health care centre providing care in most major adult specialties. We provide world class health care to Brisbane City's southern suburbs across emergency, medical, mental health and surgical services, including liver and kidney transplant. We are nationally recognised for our expertise in trauma management and organ transplants and are one of Australia's leading academic and research health centres. The PAH as a major medical research precinct hosts Australia's most advanced medical research facility, the Translational Research Institute (TRI) as well as a new Clinical Research Facility for the discoveries made at TRI to be trialed in a safe clinical environment. We're expanding our hospital to make sure everyone gets the care they need. We're adding more beds, modernising our buildings, and improving our spaces to treat kidney and cancer patients with all new services and facilities planned to open by 2027. 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.
