Clinical Nurse - Child and Adolescent Unit, Queensland Health Mackay Hospital and Health Service provides health services in a range of regional, community and rural settings.Join an expanding Health Service with a culture of collaboration, trust, respect and teamwork.Our workplace is fast paced, challenging and supportive, where every employee plays a critical role in our success.The Child and Adolescent Unit at the Mackay Base Hospital is seeking applications for a Clinical Nurse to join their team on a temporary basis.Your opportunity The Clinical Nurse provides advanced level clinical skills to ensure patient-focused evidence-based nursing care, plans and coordinates the clinical management of patient/client care and provides leadership and support to other nursing staff within the Child and Adolescent Unit.About the Team The Child and Adolescent Unit comprises of a 12-bed inpatient paediatric ward, paediatric outpatient clinic and paediatric ambulatory care unit.The Ambulatory Care Unit comprises Diabetes Educator Clinical Nurse, Chronic Illness Clinical Nurse and Paediatric Outreach Clinical Nurse, also Clinical Nurse Consultant Paediatric Haematology/Oncology Case Manager.The Child and Adolescent Unit caters for children with medical, surgical, orthopaedic, mental health and oncology conditions from 3 days to 17 years.This Unit liaises closely with the district rural facilities, acting as the referral centre for their patients and has tertiary referral to Townsville, Queensland Children's Hospital and Mater Children's Hospitals in Brisbane.About our Hospital and Health Service Our service has 6 hospitals, 2 multi-purpose health services and 4 community health centres that employ more than 3,700 staff.The district covers an area of approximately 90,000km2 and provides services to patients and their families in Bowen, Cannonvale, Clermont, Collinsville, Dysart, Glenden, Mackay, Middlemount, Moranbah, Proserpine and Sarina.Some of our great benefits on offer: Competitive wages, salary packaging and leave entitlements Flexible working arrangements Education opportunities, Study and Research #J-18808-Ljbffr