Employment Type: Temporary Full Time until 05 April 2026
Position Classification: Nurse Unit Manager Level 2
Remuneration: $133,112.75 per annum plus superannuation
Hours Per Week: 38
Requisition ID: REQ584074
Application Close: Sunday, 29 June 2025

Nurse Unit Manager Level 2 - Eye Clinic - Prince of Wales Hospital

Ready to Lead the Future of Nursing?
Are you inspired to be a nursing leader? Motivated to drive positive change in healthcare? Are you a skilled and compassionate nurse leader with a passion for person-centred Opthalmic care? 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.

The Role
The vision for South Eastern Sydney Local Health District (SESLHD) is ‘exceptional care, healthier lives’. SESLHD is committed to enabling our community to be healthy and well, and to providing the best possible compassionate care when people need it.

The Nursing and Midwifery – Our Strategy for Transforming Person Centred Cultures 2024-2029 guides our profession in the development of effective person-centred practice and healthful cultures within SESLHD. We advocate for shared decision-making, collaborative relationships, compassionate and person-centred leadership, and supporting innovative practices.

The nursing vision for Prince of Wales Hospital is ‘Transforming Person-Centred Care Together’. This approach to all nursing practices ensures we collaborate together on all aspects of healthcare, inclusive of staff, placing the person at the centre of shared decision making underpinned by respect, mutual understanding and facilitated choice.

As a Nursing Unit Manager in SESLHD you will be in charge of the Eye Clinic in The Prince of Wales Hospital and you will serve a pivotal role as a visible leader and role model for nurses and midwives across SESLHD. You will set the clinical standards for the Eye Clinic. Your role is diverse and dynamic, focusing on supporting nurses and midwives to deliver safe, high quality person-centred care.

As the Nursing Unit Manager of Eye Clinic you will be responsible for coordinating the patient services, managing the unit and managing the nursing staff. To achieve this, you will enable and motivate your team, coordinate and collaborate across multidisciplinary teams and identify and improve workforce factors to provide enhanced patient outcomes.

As the Nursing Unit Manager you will utilise your extensive experience and/or qualifications to lead and provide expert clinical consultancy practice in the development and implementation of a service; provide leadership and direction for quality improvement and clinical service standards; lead skill development in coaching, clinical supervision and leadership; act as a role model, be responsible for engaging with staff, carers, patients and consumers to facilitate, support, and evaluate practice change related to patient care, fostering excellence in clinical, educational and professional leadership.

You will be part of a team that strives to support each other to reach our potential, focus on what matters most and continue to be innovative in approaches to practice.

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.

Benefits:

• A workplace culture with a foundation that promotes person centred care approaches and staff wellbeing
• Orientation and supported transition into your new role
• Targeted clinical stream education programs affiliated with university partners
• Development pathways that are aimed at career progression
• 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.
• Corporate health and fitness program, discounted gym memberships with a Fitness Passport
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for employees and family members.
• Discounted Private Health Insurance.
• Established partnerships with Universities that promote cutting edge research in wellbeing, education and teaching.
• Opportunity to apply for Continuing Education allowance based on tertiary qualifications attained where applicable.
• Opportunity to obtain Clinical Nurse Specialist status where relevant.

For more information on careers and benefits of working for SESLHD, visit our page

Selection Criteria

To be considered for this position, please ensure you address the below questions as thoroughly as possible.

1. Registered with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) as a Registered Nurse.
2. Relevant management tertiary qualification or equivalent work experience, or a combination of study and work experience with a demonstrated commitment to professional development
3. Proven clinical leadership skills and an ability to lead a team with a demonstrated commitment to excellence in nursing practice and person-centred practice.
4. Demonstrated ability to analyse verbal and written communication and make decisions or inferences from the data, including an ability to analyse complex numerical data and draw logical conclusions.
5. Demonstrated experience in the management of quality and safety processes, including the ability to analyse patterns and trends within new or unique sets of data.
6. Demonstrated evidence of the use of critical thinking as it relates to the delivery of advanced evidenced based nursing care.
7. Demonstrated experience in leading and implementing change and developing direction in clinical practice within a person-centred framework, including an ability to recognise, understand and influence own and others’ emotions.
8. Leadership experience in the initiation and development of team goals and plans, and the use feedback to inform future planning.

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 Andrew Maxwell on [email protected]

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 [email protected] 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 ([email protected]) and for additional information please visit our Stepping Up Website