Nurse Unit Manager - Kidney Dialysis

Lead a High-Performing Kidney Dialysis Team

Step into a senior nursing leadership role where your specialist expertise can shape the future of kidney dialysis at Bayside Health. Lead a team of approximately 18 FTE, oversee clinical and operational performance, and champion safe, evidence-informed and person-centred care! Temporary 12 month full-time opportunity!

About your role

As Nurse Unit Manager – Kidney Dialysis, you'll provide advanced clinical and operational leadership across Bayside Health's Kidney Dialysis service. 

In this role you will:

• Lead and coordinate the Kidney Dialysis service across Bayside Health.
• Provide advanced clinical leadership in specialist nephrology nursing.
• Lead a team of approximately 18 FTE and foster a positive team culture.
• Oversee safe staffing, rostering, skill mix and workforce planning.
• Manage human, material and financial resources for the service.
• Drive quality, risk management and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Champion evidence-informed, person-centred care and patient outcomes.
• Lead education, mentoring, professional development and succession planning.
• Monitor service data, performance indicators and clinical outcomes.
• Build strong partnerships across nursing and multidisciplinary teams.

About you

You're an experienced Registered Nurse and inspiring clinical leader with specialist knowledge of kidney dialysis and contemporary nephrology nursing. 

You'll bring:

• Advanced knowledge of nephrology and kidney dialysis nursing.
• Strong clinical leadership and specialist nursing expertise.
• Experience managing teams, staffing, rostering and skill mix.
• Strong financial, resource and operational management capability.
• Proven ability to lead quality improvement and service change.
• Excellent communication, negotiation and stakeholder skills.
• Commitment to education, mentoring and workforce development.
• Ability to analyse service data and drive performance improvement.

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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 Bayside Health Kidney Dialysis Service

Bayside Health Service provides services within the hospital and community setting such as Emergency Care, Primary Health and Minor Injury Care, Acute and subacute medicine, general surgery, maternity and paediatric, mental specialist outpatient and mental health care.

The Bayside Health Kidney Dialysis Service provides maintenance haemodialysis for patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) on the Redland Hospital Campus at Cleveland. The service has increased to include a second haemodialysis location at the Redland Bay Satellite Health Centre. Patients requiring acute dialysis care or tertiary care will require transfer to the Princess Alexandra Hospital.

The service is committed to providing high quality person focused care to patients with complex end stage renal failure receiving maintenance haemodialysis.

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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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