Job Title: Clinical Nurse Consultant, Theatre Coordinator

Location: Brisbane, QLD

Type: Full-Time, Permanent role

Salary: Up to $73hr + 12% super + not-for-profit salary packaging

Recruiter: Carejobz Perioperative Recruitment Specialists

The team at Carejobz Perioperative Specialists are recruiting for a hospital in Brisbane. We are looking for an experienced perioperative nurse leader to join the perioperative leadership team as Clinical Nurse Consultant, Theatre Coordinator, coordinating the daily operational flow of a busy theatre complex. This is a permanent, full-time opportunity for a Registered Nurse with at least 5 years' Operating Theatre experience.

About the Facility

A not-for-profit private hospital in Brisbane, with leading services in cardiac, orthopaedic, neurosurgery, vascular surgery and rehabilitation.

The Role

As part of the perioperative leadership team, you will be the central point of coordination across Perioperative Services. You will oversee theatre utilisation, workforce allocation, patient flow and operational communications, working alongside multidisciplinary teams, Visiting Medical Practitioners and hospital leaders.

In this role, you will:

• Coordinate daily operational activities across Perioperative Services to support efficient theatre utilisation and patient flow
• Monitor theatre activity and respond to operational issues and emerging service demands
• Coordinate urgent, emergent and ad hoc surgical cases while optimising theatre scheduling and resources
• Lead workforce deployment, staffing allocations and operational resource management
• Provide visible clinical leadership and operational support to perioperative teams
• Build strong working relationships with surgeons, anaesthetists, nursing teams, CSSD and other key stakeholders
• Coordinate equipment, instrumentation and clinical resources
• Support quality, risk management, service improvement and accreditation activities across theatre services

What You Will Bring

• Minimum 5 years' Operating Theatre clinical experience
• Current AHPRA registration as a Registered Nurse
• Demonstrated experience coordinating operational activities within a hospital or healthcare environment
• Strong understanding of theatre flow, workforce planning and resource allocation
• Proven ability to lead and influence multidisciplinary teams
• Experience managing competing priorities and responding to changing operational demands
• Highly developed communication, negotiation and stakeholder engagement skills
• Commitment to quality improvement, patient safety and service excellence
• Full Australian working rights required

Why You Will Want to Know More

• A senior coordination role within the perioperative leadership team of a busy theatre complex
• 12% super
• Not-for-profit salary packaging: up to $15,900 for living expenses and up to $2,650 for meal entertainment each year
• Flexible work arrangements
• Recognition and rewards platform, with employee discounts, wellbeing and employee assistance programs
• 12 weeks paid parental leave and 2 weeks paid partner leave (after 6 months' service), on top of the government scheme
• Paid gender affirmation leave and cultural leave options
• Career development opportunities

If this sounds like the kind of theatre opportunity you have been waiting for, we would love to speak with you.

Apply in confidence through this link: https://carejobz.app.loxo.co/job/MzkxNTktZnk3bmx3MzU0YmQ1dTI0dg==.

Kate or Paul will be happy to talk you through the opportunity, answer your questions honestly, and help you decide whether it feels like the right next step for you.

About Carejobz

At Carejobz, Paul and Kate have been recruiting perioperative professionals across Australia and New Zealand since 2015. Over that time, they have become trusted recruitment partners to leading hospitals and day surgeries, supporting nurses and employers with warmth, discretion and genuine sector knowledge.

Read what jobseekers and employers say about working with Carejobz at seek.com.au/recruiters/agencies/carejobz-pty-ltd