Nurse Manager

Nurse Manager / Health Practitioner Capability Development Shape the Future of Emergency Preparedness at Metro South Health Use your advanced nursing leadership to strengthen disaster readiness, response and recovery across Metro South. Your New Role As our Nurse Manager, Capability Development, you will play a pivotal leadership role strengthening clinical disaster, emergency and continuity management capability across Metro South Health. In this role, you will: Lead the design, delivery and evaluation of clinical disaster and emergency management programs across all hospitals and facilities. Coordinate service-wide workforce training and exercising, including clinical capability assessments and annual training needs analysis. Provide expert clinical liaison and advisory support during incident management and emergency operations, including after-hours response when required. Drive clinical business continuity planning, ensuring services can maintain safe, high-quality care during disruption. Build strong relationships with internal teams and external agencies, representing Metro South Health in multi-agency exercises, committees and forums. About you You are a confident, strategic and collaborative clinical leader, committed to enhancing disaster readiness and supporting teams to deliver safe, high‑quality care in complex and evolving situations. You will bring: Advanced disaster, emergency or mass‑casualty clinical knowledge, with experience applying evidence‑based approaches to planning, training and service improvement. Proven ability to lead change, influence stakeholders and build capability across multidisciplinary teams. Strong analytical, reporting and governance skills, with the ability to manage quality systems, assess risk and translate lessons into practice. High‑level communication and education skills, including experience developing and delivering bespoke clinical training packages or exercises. 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 package, salary packaging and access to relevant professional development allowances and/or leave, study and research assistance, corporate discounts and employee wellness programs. Unit Profile Metro South Health's (MSH) Disaster and Emergency and Continuity Management function is responsible for developing, and working across the health service to implement, effective disaster and emergency, incident, risk and business continuity management programs. This includes coordinated planning, training and exercising activities and incident management and emergency operations centre capability during response and recovery, in partnership with both internal and external stakeholders and across all administrative and clinical areas of operation. Values 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. About Metro South Health We are the major public healthcare provider for Brisbane's south side, Logan, Redlands, and the Scenic Rim operating five major hospitals and a range of community, specialty, and state‑wide healthcare services. We are bold, innovative, collaborative, inspiring. We save lives, change lives, and make the world a better place. We are part of and proud of the community we serve. We are better together. #J-18808-Ljbffr