Nurse Unit Manager Level 2 - Nepean ED

With CORE Values of Collaboration, Openness, Respect and Empowerment,

working with us will ensure your professional life is provided every opportunity to succeed
and develop in your chosen career role.

About Us

Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District (NBMLHD) is a wonderful place to expand your career and grow your skills and knowledge. As a recognised leader in the healthcare industry, we provide a range of public health services to the Nepean and Blue Mountains and Lithgow Region. 

Nepean Hospital is a teaching hospital that provides tertiary referral services in emergency care, coronary care, diagnostics, gynaecology, paediatric, neonatal intensive care/ICU, maternity, mental health, rehabilitation, and surgery. The Nepean Campus has recently experienced tremendous growth and aims to support communities within and outside of Sydney’s western suburbs, providing world-class clinical facilities, services, and care.

Our brand new Emergency Department at Nepean Hospital is now open and looking for a Nurse Unit Manager, Level 2 to join our community. Our positive and innovative environment will offer many opportunities and career pathways whilst being supported by an experienced and dedicated team consisting of a Nurse Manager, NUM's, Nurse Practitioners, CNC's, CNE, CNS's and RN's.

Your role as the Nurse Unit Manager will see you lead, direct and co-ordinate patient or client care; ensure the practice of nursing is safe and efficient, maintaining standards of care through continual quality improvement initiatives. This position will see you co-ordinate the nursing and multi-disciplinary 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 will demonstrate their capability through attitude, skills, behaviour and attributes such as broad experience and knowledge nursing clinical indicators. Your 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 team work; commitment to advancing the profession of nursing/midwifery and care provision.

If this is the kind of working environment for you and the opportunities excite you, please apply now!

Benefits available to eligible NBMLHD employees 

·         Accrued Day Off (ADO) (full time employees only)

·         Opportunity for extra tax savings through Salary Packaging

·         Novated Leasing

·        Great education opportunities through Education Training Service which offers over 110 courses each year

·         Access to our Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for staff and family members

·         Fitness Passport

NBMLHD is committed to achieving a diverse workforce and is an Equal Opportunity Employer and actively encourages diversity and inclusion within our workforce. We encourage and welcome applications from people of diverse backgrounds including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders; people living with disability; people from a Cultural and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) background; people who identify as LGBTQI+, people with a lived experience of mental health concerns and people of mature age.