Nurse Unit Manager - Pandanus and Primary Care Clinic

Lead with purpose. Make a difference. Join us as a Nurse Unit Manager.

Bring your clinical expertise and leadership to a role where you can shape exceptional patient care, empower your team and drive positive change across primary care and inpatient services.

About This Role

Your new role:

As the Nurse Unit Manager (NUM), you will provide advanced clinical and operational leadership across the Primary Care Clinic and Pandanus Ward, with day-to-day oversight of Wynnum-Manly Community Health Centre – Gundu Pa. Leading a multidisciplinary team, you will champion safe, person-centred care while overseeing workforce, resources, performance, quality improvement and financial management. This is an opportunity to build a positive and capable nursing workforce, influence service delivery and lead innovative, evidence-informed practice that delivers better outcomes for patients and the community.

About You

You are an experienced and inspiring nursing leader who brings advanced clinical expertise, sound operational judgement and a genuine commitment to delivering safe, person-centred care and empowering teams to succeed.

Lead with confidence – Demonstrated experience leading nursing teams, building a positive workplace culture and motivating staff to deliver high-quality, evidence-informed care.Bring clinical expertise – Advanced contemporary nursing knowledge and clinical skills, with the ability to provide expert advice and make sound, autonomous decisions.Drive service excellence – Experience in operational management, quality improvement, performance monitoring and using data to achieve service outcomes and best-practice standards.Manage resources effectively – Strong capability across workforce planning, rostering, human and material resources, budget management and achieving operational priorities.Champion growth and change – A collaborative and transformational leader who develops others, embraces innovation and creates a culture of learning, improvement and professional development.

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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 roleYou'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 Service

Bayside Health Service provides a diverse range of hospital and community-based healthcare across five campuses, including Redland Hospital, Gundu Pa, Marie Rose Centre, Pandanus Ward and Redlands Satellite Health Centre. Gundu Pa is a state-of-the-art community health facility offering a 24-hour Primary Care Centre alongside mental health, allied health, chronic disease, oral health, child development and specialist outpatient services. Pandanus Ward, located at Casuarina Lodge, provides eight general healthcare beds supporting the Wynnum-Manly community. Together, Bayside Health Service delivers comprehensive care across emergency, primary, acute and subacute medicine, surgery, maternity, paediatrics and mental health services.

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.

Further information

We are committed to building inclusive cultures in the Queensland public sector that respect and promote human rights and diversity.

Applicants are encouraged to apply online. Please review the Role Description for more information on application process requirements. Agency referrals will not be accepted for this position.