Nurse Unit Manager - Renal Unit Maternity Leave Cover
Position Classification: Nurse Unit Manager Level 3
Remuneration: $136692.20 per annum plus Superannuation
Hours Per Week: 38
Requisition ID: REQ564346
Applications Close: 27 April 2025
Prince of Wales Hospital - Nurse Unit Manager Renal Unit Maternity Leave Cover
Are you inspired to be a nursing leader? Motivated to drive positive change in healthcare? Prince of Wales Hospital is seeking passionate and experienced professionals to step into the role of Nurse Unit Manager. This is a fantastic opportunity to lead dynamic teams, shape clinical practice, and make a lasting impact on patient care and staff development in a supportive and collaborative environment.
Benefits:
- Up to 12 allocated days off each year (for full-time employees) in addition to annual leave.
- Salary packaging options that reduce your taxable income and increase your take-home pay!
- Up to $9K for living expenses and $2.6K meal & entertainment & Novated Leasing.
- Discounted gym memberships with a Fitness Passport
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for employees and family members.
- Discounted Private Health Insurance.
- Inner city location with direct access to eastern suburbs beaches, restaurants and transport links that are right at the front door
For more information on careers and benefits of working for SESLHD, visit our page
Where you'll be working
Prince of Wales Hospital and Community Health Service is a Level 6 Tertiary Referral Hospital with an inpatient bed base of 370. Each year we care for more than 70,000 patients in our Emergency Department and have around 50,000 admissions to the inpatient units. POWH offers an outpatient service and rural outreach service and provides more than 900,000 occasions of non-admitted patient care each year, including innovative virtual models of care. We have transitioned the majority of inpatient units and wards to the Acute Services Building (ASB) including a state of the art Emergency Department and Intensive Care Unit. POWH provides an exceptional staff experience and enhanced patient and family outcomes as a result of the provision of person-centred care.
Randwick Local council is renowned for our world-class beaches and supported by cafes and restaurants to tickle your taste-buds, Randwick’s fascinating coastline and atmosphere will have you in awe the minute you arrive. Offering a mix of historic buildings, impressive beaches and coastal walks coupled with boutique restaurants, transport links and a vibrant nightlife, you’ll never be short of things to do in this progressive community.
What you'll be doing
All staff are expected to act as an appropriate and effective role model and promote culture and supporting practices that reflect the NSW Health CORE values of Collaboration, Openness, Respect and Empowerment through demonstrated behaviours and interactions with patients, clients and employees.
The Nursing/Midwifery Unit Manager is the registered nurse/Midwife in charge of a ward/unit or group of wards/units or a service (e.g. Child and Family Health) within SESLHD.
The purpose of the Nursing/Midwifery Unit Manager in the Outpatients Department is to:
• lead, direct and co-ordinate patient or client care.
• ensure the practice of nursing and/or midwifery is safe and efficient, maintaining standards of care through
continual quality improvement initiatives.
• lead and co-ordinate the nursing/midwifery and multidisciplinary care team at the ward or unit level, and
• monitor and manage the business and management functions and processes of the ward or unit
As the leader of the unit, the NUM/MUM will demonstrate her/his capability through attitude, skills, behaviour and attributes, namely:
• broad nursing/midwifery experience and knowledge
• understanding and acceptance that patients are the central focus of service delivery
• professional integrity
• ethical conduct
• accountability
• advocacy
• enabling others
• cultivation of collaborative relationships and effective teamwork
• commitment to advancing the profession of nursing/midwifery and care provision.
The Sydney Eye Hospital Outpatient Department is a Centre of Excellence, a tertiary referral centre for specialist ophthalmic services, providing a comprehensive ophthalmology service incorporating consultation, diagnostic and treatment services, with facilities for adults and children. Patients are referred from a variety of sources, including consultant ophthalmologists, other specialists, general practitioners, optometrists, other hospitals or self-referred.
The Sydney Hospital Pulmonary/Chest Clinic is a specialised TB service which forms part of an integrated state wide network of like services that deliver the NSW TB Program. The Clinic has a special role within the TB program, providing access to TB treatment for inner city workers and access for interpretation of x-ray films for the diagnosis and prevention of TB for hospitals without access to a radiologist. In addition, the Chest Clinic provides the full range of TB diagnostic, treatment and prevention services. This includes the screening and vaccination of high risk groups; monitoring and treatment of latent TB infection; directly observed therapy for TB cases and TB physician clinics.
The General Outpatient service provides a range of pre and post-op ENT clinics, a Neurophysiology EMG Clinic, Allergy clinic and a Gastroenterology Clinic.
- Current registration as a Registered Nurse/Midwife with the Nursing & Midwifery Board of Australia and current NSW Driver's License (if required by service).
- Relevant management tertiary qualification or equivalent work experience, or a combination of study and work experience with a demonstrated commitment to professional development.
- A demonstrated knowledge and experience in the management and delivery of health care services.
- Proven ability in innovative clinical service delivery, harm minimisation and practice development.
- Effective interpersonal and communication skills that demonstrate the ability to engage, enable and manage teams.
- Proven ability to create and maintain a positive workplace culture and articulate and achieve a vision for nursing services.
- Recent clinical experience in Ophthalmology.
Need more information?
1) Click here for the Position Description and SESLHD Expected Standards
2) Find out more about applying for this position
For role related queries or questions contact Barbara Daly on Barbara.Daly@health.nsw.gov.au
Our CORE Values are Collaboration, Openness, Respect and Empowerment and have been created by employees for employees and help define how we work and to inspire positive interactions in the workplace.
SESLHD values a diverse workforce. Read about our Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging strategy here.
Reasonable Adjustments
NSW Health recognises everyone is unique, and that you may require some adjustments to ensure you have the best opportunity to apply. If we can make some adjustments to the NSW Health recruitment/interview process, then please email SESLHD-Recruitment-POWH-SSEH@health.nsw.gov.au and let us know.
Adjustments may include but are not limited to, physical requirements, interview setups and specific interview availability times where required.
Information for applicants:
- An eligibility list may be created for future vacancies.
- Employment of a temporary visa holder may only occur if no suitable permanent resident or citizen of Australia has been identified for this position following suitable labour market testing.
- Applicants will be assessed against the essential requirements and selection criteria contained within the position description.
- Recommended applicants will be reviewed for compliance with NSW Health policy directive Occupational Assessment, Screening and Vaccination against Specific Diseases for all positions prior to offer.
- SESLHD is committed to creating a workplace that reflects the diversity of our community. This will help ensure our employees, our patients and their carers, feel supported. We invite candidates of all ages, genders, sexual orientation, cultural backgrounds, people with disability, neurodiverse individuals, and Indigenous Australians to apply. We do have an Aboriginal Employment Consultant that can also provide support (SESLHD-AboriginalWorkforce@health.nsw.gov.au) and for additional information please visit our Stepping Up Website
