Nurse Navigator Paediatric Palliative Care Service

To provide advanced practice clinical and professional practice, facilitating a safe and efficient patient journey across the continuum of care through applying the Nurse Navigator principles of coordinating patient centred care, creating partnerships, improving patient outcomes, and facilitating systems improvement. The role improves complex patient care, increases system efficiencies, reduces costs by streamlining and coordinating care.

About the Team

The purpose of the Paediatric Palliative Care Service (PPCS) is to provide holistic care and support to all patients with life limiting conditions and their families.  This is achieved through the provision of competent and compassionate care in an appropriate setting for all children engaged with our service.  The service makes good use of resources and looks for opportunities to work within established care pathways without replicating resources and carrying inefficiencies.

About the Role

To provide advanced practice clinical and professional practice, facilitating a safe and efficient patient journey across the continuum of care through applying the Nurse Navigator principles of coordinating patient centred care, creating partnerships, improving patient outcomes, and facilitating systems improvement. The role improves complex patient care, increases system efficiencies, reduces costs by streamlining and coordinating care.

Your contribution will include:

Domain 1: Direct comprehensive care or provision of direct care

• Accountable for Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA) and own standards, actions and the outcomes of own nursing practice, professional advice given and for activities.

Domain 2: Support of Systems

• Contribute to and integrate key objectives into service delivery from the Children's Health Queensland Strategic Plan and those of key internal/external partners.

Domain 3: Education

• Provide educational leadership and expertise, supporting a learning environment by mentoring and promoting team development opportunities to enhance and assure Person Centred Care for paediatric palliative care patients.

Domain 4: Research

• Engage in quality initiative and research projects relevant to the improvement of the patient care journey.

Domain 5: Professional Leadership

• Provide a central point of communication, engagement and coordination for key partners involved in the individual patients care across primary, secondary and tertiary care providers utilising multi-modal communication pathways facilitating the patient focused care journey.

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.   

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% 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.