Queensland Health Employee Reviews in Townsville QLD

Very busy, many areas can be clicky (if you don't fit in can be devastating) Most supervisors supportive, but if you are under a lying psycho it can make your life unbearable as you feel you have nowhere to go for assistance and if you cannot move into another area you end up leaving.

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Terrible place to work

Registered Nurse (Current Employee) - Townsville QLD - 7 December 2022

Undervalued, unappreciated and underpaid. Bullying management and impossible to get annual leave. Do not recommend this place to anyone. It is soul destroying and will overtake your life, shift work is relentless and day after day is a cycle of stress out on staff my managers. Patient acuity is getting worse and worse while more and more is expected by nurses.

Pros

None

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What people like

Time and location flexibility
Feeling of personal appreciation
Ability to meet personal goals

Areas for improvement

Support from manager
Overall satisfaction
General feeling of work happiness

Great work place.

Endorsed Enrolled Nurse (Former Employee) - Townsville QLD - 28 February 2020

Busy but enjoyable days at work. Ongoing training provided. Management is great and very approachable. Hardest part of my job was when we lost a patient. Most enjoyable was taking care of patients and their families and seeing them leave hospital well again.

Pros

Great place to work.

Cons

Nil.

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Found working as a registered nurse in Northern Queensland s truly rewarding experience.

Registered Nurse (Former Employee) - Townsville QLD - 6 January 2020

Did my graduate program at Queensland Health. Very good experience, well supported and worked in interesting and acute areas. Always given constructive feedback, well supported, trusted and given responsibility within competence level.

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The worst experience of my life wish I never worked there

RN (Former Employee) - Townsville QLD - 1 January 2020

I am a very experienced nurse but unfortunately this doesn’t matter at this hospital because it’s nit what you know but who you know. Nepotisum is rife friends get jobs through friends. Interviews are given just so they are seen to be doing all the right things but the jobs are given to their friend with no experience. As for the bullying it’s out of control. I worked on four wards over ten years and every ward it was really bad. Most of the bullies are the nums or cn s And most of my colleagues are on mental health programmes s antidepressants nw because of this. I was bullied by a num for theee years no one would listen and hierarchy just thought I was a trouble maker because I reported it . My life necame worse after that she bullied me more. I started work on a different ward to get away from it little did iknow my old num had contacted her and told her lies so she then bullied me to. I reported all of this but then I was asked to leave because I was a trouble maker. My life went downhill rapidly . I know there are a lot of us I attend a support group which is full of bullied nurses from TTH . I wouldn’t recommend working there at all.

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Management are bullies

Supply Services - Senior Supply Officer (Former Employee) - Townsville QLD - 13 November 2019

Great job, good pay, but ruined by ego driven management who have no interest but their own agenda. They will stab you in the back at any opportunity to make themselves appear competent. Before long your anxiety levels are extreme because the politics is inescapable. You need to brown nose to your manager to be treated normal, because just doing a good job isn't good enough.

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Generally a good and pleasant place to work.

ENAS (Current Employee) - Townsville QLD - 3 May 2019

Generally a good and pleasant place to work. Townsville is a teaching hospital so staff skill levels vary a lot. The introduction of iEMR (the digital medical record system) is terrible from a nursing perspective as it is cumbersome and glitchy, and has massively increased time not spent with patients and instead typing into computers. Doctors seem to like it as they no longer have to chase patient charts all the time. Contrary to QH public statements it has not increased pt safety, and is viewed by a majority of staff as tedious and time consuming.

Pros

good pay and conditions, job security.

Cons

iEMR. also if you have a "difficult" boss/NUM all complaints will be ignored.

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Meaningful and Satisfying

Carer (Former Employee) - Townsville QLD - 2 January 2019

Responsibilities: • Provide home and community support services for cancer client • Develop and facilitate a home management plan for a high needs cancer client • Monitoring, recording and reporting of health conditions and administration of all prescribed medications • Arranging all medical appointments and communicating with all health providers, and the establishment and reporting of medical symptoms and outcomes

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Rewarding experience studying Nursing

Nursing student (Former Employee) - Townsville QLD - 31 August 2018

Iv learned many skills that will be beneficial to any workplace area. Through clinical skills to mental health communication I cover a broad range of patients I can deliver the best quality of care to.

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productive and rewarding work place

Anaesthetic registered nurse (Former Employee) - Townsville QLD - 6 February 2018

Working with a great team of professional people who have the same focus was rewarding and satisfying. The work was challenging and the hours were long but I have fond memories

Pros

positive work culture

Cons

shift work

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Excellent Remuneration yet Terrible Management

Administration (Current Employee) - Townsville QLD - 16 November 2017

A typical day involves assisting with all sort of emergencies, the job has variety with most management absent you are free to manage your own workload. I have learned QLD Health does not value skill level on staff and promotions and job offers are generally appointed by office politics under the guise of merit based recruitment to make it appear they are being equitable. Management know all the tricks and policies to ward of any challenges to staffing decisions. A lot of backroom deals go on during the recruitment process to either assist or hinder staff from progressing. Management love using "gotcha" word play moments in the interview process which makes it virtually impossible to progress in your career as they rarely offer stepping stone work opportunities to gain required experiences to answer their convoluted interview questions. Management has a culture of incompetence and bullying which is so bad they had to bring in an external company to deal with bullying claims. The hardest part of the job is management making decisions without any input from line level staff that have to work with the policies that they implement that cause more problems. The most enjoyable part of the job is the remuneration because the management have no clue in managing an efficient budget along with the Government they throw money at the Organisation so if you can put up with poor management, stonewalling and other unethical conduct the tax and money insane benefits is why people work at QLD Health. Should you work at QLD Health? Yes for the money but your health will -

Pros

Above Average Remuneration

Cons

Bullying incompetent workplace culture

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Money is good, Bullying is at the top to the bottom

RN (Former Employee) - Townsville QLD - 14 November 2017

You enjoy the pay but you hate going to work because people will make you miserable and are bullies! your heart goes at 150bpm thinking someone will pick on you. I know someone who was bullied so badly, they continue to take antidrepressants a few years later. The union was unhelpful during the hard times too. Management is made up of bullies in some of the wards so no one to go to because they are all in a click. I am glad to know something is being done about it for future young nurses

Pros

Pay

Cons

Bullies and no one to turn to

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Excellent Remuneration yet Terrible Management

Administration (Current Employee) - Townsville QLD - 23 May 2017

A typical day involves assisting with all sort of emergencies, the job has variety with most management absent you are free to manage your own workload. I have learned QLD Health does not value skill level on staff and promotions and job offers are generally appointed by office politics under the guise of merit based recruitment to make it appear they are being equitable. Management know all the tricks and policies to ward of any challenges to staffing decisions. A lot of backroom deals go on during the recruitment process to either assist or hinder staff from progressing. Management has a culture of incompetence and bullying which is so bad they had to bring in an external company to deal with bullying claims. The hardest part of the job is management making decisions without any input from line level staff that have to work with the policies that they implement that cause more problems. The most enjoyable part of the job is the remuneration because the management have no clue in managing an efficient budget along with the Government they throw money at the Organisation so if you can put up with poor management, stonewalling and other unethical conduct the tax and money insane benefits is why people work at QLD Health.

Pros

Above Average Remuneration

Cons

Bullying incompetent workplace culture

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As an AIN it is a special job as you work with the most vulnerable and sickest in a hospital setting but you listen,watch and learn so much.

Assistant in Nursing (Casual) (Current Employee) - Townsville QLD - 6 April 2017

i Have enjoyed working along side of the RNs EENs and allied health workers if you are willing to learn the staff are happy to explain things to you.You never stop learning. Most are very happy to work as apart of a team . Most important part of my specific role AIN is you work side by side with the patients/clients and to make them smile,feel safe you become someone whom makes their day.Love to see people smile.

Cons

Car Parking

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If you dont want to work with bullies then do not work with Queensland health because they will do nothing to protect you.

Assistant in Nursing (Former Employee) - Townsville QLD - 16 August 2016

I enjoyed working with the majority of supervisors and nurses, I think the organisation mostly is disorganised with lack of communication even with constant meetings to review these outstanding problems. They need to start listening to staff about there concerns about co-workers, management and supervisors as I have learnt from my experience at Queensland Health that the bullies in the system get away with everything, while the descent worker has to be exposed to this behaviour continuously. This is a major problem in Queensland Health though I believe this will never be rectified or given any thought, training and consequences for there actions, not a slap on the wrists and moved to another department in the system. When this occurs which is often, it starts all over again with a new lot of staff. Queensland Health should be ashamed of themselves for the bullying and mistreatment of staff they have allowed to continually be exposed to this abuse without any help from management or senior staff in giving discipline reaction when these situations occur straight away, Queensland Health should Give up trying to solve problems with mediation, as this can put an innocent worker in a vulnerable position with superior management.

Pros

Good earning money

Cons

Bullying

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a stable job with alot of benefits

management of behaviours (Former Employee) - Townsville QLD - 4 March 2016

great place to work, heaps of education choices, hardest part was loosing a resident the most enjoyable part seeing the elderly laughing

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Productive and Friendly workplace

Executive Support Officer/Administration Officer (Current Employee) - Townsville, QLD - 22 October 2015

Fun work place with supportive management. Not all about the numbers but how you personally grow and develop. Decent amount of red tape and politics, but this is expected of a big company.

Pros

You get to have your breaks

Cons

staff car parking

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Enjoyed immensely

Facilities Manager (Former Employee) - Townsville, QLD - 9 November 2014

Queensland Health has opportunities to learn and develop your skills and you are supported in continually improving yourself.

Pros

Paid well for your job, always busy so days fly

Cons

some long hours, can be very busy

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Very interesting job

Medical Typist / Administration Officer (Former Employee) - Townsville QLD - 7 January 2013

Very interesting place to work, no two days were the same, fantastic colleauges, lots of support from management if needed.Daily: update databases, process and follow up accounts, order stock / stationery,medical typing for a variety of services.I learnt how to access and use various computer systems and databases. I enjoyed all aspects of the job

Pros

part time hours

Cons

no cons

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514 yrs nursing ad hoc work

nurse (Current Employee) - tth townsville hospital - 12 December 2012

typically im a team player shift worker on cal ect casual @ the moment qld health tth townsvile hospital commited too work standards policy and procedure of all operational duttiesof my job discription no work place bullying tollerated on my behalf and if i see it report it also through appropriate channels ect i enjoy or have enjoyed the work over the years but looking for a sea CHANGEthanks for reading