Welcome to St John of God Health Care

St John of God Health Care is one of the largest private providers of health care services in Australia, employing more than 16,000 employees (caregivers). We operate 26 hospitals and services comprising more than 3,300 hospital beds, including home nursing, disability services and social outreach programs.

As a Catholic, not-for-profit group, we invest all profits to the communities we serve by updating and expanding our facilities and technology; expanding existing services and developing and acquiring new services; and providing Social Outreach services to people experiencing disadvantage to improve health and wellbeing.

St John of God Berwick Hospital has a total of 202 beds, 8 operating theatres, a cardiac/vascular laboratory and six birthing suites. The hospital provides a wide range of services caring for inpatients, outpatients and day patients across a range of specialties including cardiology, maternity, medical and surgical, offering state of the art equipment and facilities to our rapidly growing community. The hospital has a 16 bed Critical Care Unit with 6 Intensive Care beds and 10 Cardiac/HDU beds. Our aim is to deliver the very best in health care at our Berwick Hospital

Your role
You will be responsible for leadership and management of the department/unit, optimising patient safety, quality of care and experience, operational efficiency and contributing to the strategic objectives of the Directorate.

We have a permanent full-time opportunity for a Nurse Unit Manager (NUM) to join our General Surgery Unit. This 34-bed unit provides comprehensive surgical care, including laparoscopic (keyhole) procedures and unit offers a broad range of medical, social, and diagnostic services, and is equipped to manage complex surgical cases such as tumour and growth removal. Our surgeons also bring sub-specialty expertise in areas including endocrine, breast, and bariatric surgery.

The Position:

• Monitor standards of service and practice against benchmark targets, including nurse sensitive indicators, incident management system data, clinical indicator results and patient, doctor and caregiver satisfaction results. Where benchmarks are not met, design, implement and evaluate responses.
• Support and participate in the ACHS accreditation process/regulatory assessments, as well as group-wide and divisional Quality and Clinical Risk Management programs.
• Foster a clinical culture of interdisciplinary collaboration to improve patient outcomes.
• Ensure that patients and consumers are actively involved in relevant planning and decision-making processes.
• Works in a clinical capacity within the department as required, to support caregivers, medical officers and to ensure the delivery of safe, person-centred care.
• Ongoing financial management and monitoring of the service cost centre including, productivity, activity and utilisation in line with budgetary parameters and performance targets.
• Promotes and demonstrates a culture of innovation and improvement to enhance patient care and experience.
• In consultation with Hospital Management Committee, actively contributes to marketing the service to Medical Practitioners
• Participates in the implementation and maintenance of a workforce model/model of care that enables quality of care to be maintained as well as implementing appropriate levels of workforce skills.

You will have a registration with Nursing & Midwifery Board of Australia (AHPRA) as a Registered Nurse and will demonstrate commitment to quality improvement, including the ACHS EQuiP process and clinical risk management.

To succeed you will have contemporary management and leadership experience in a Senior Nursing position in an Acute Hospital Facility, with clinical experience in the area of General Surgery.

Above all, patient care will be at the core of everything you do committing to and supporting our Mission and Values.

We will offer you

• Novated leasing
• work related expenses
• self-education and
• additional superannuation

• Salary: $127,128 per annum, plus 12% superannuation.
• Permanent full-time position available.
• Salary packaging up to $18,550 on a range of benefits such as mortgage, rent, meal entertainment, holiday accommodation or other everyday living expenses as well as options to salary package benefits above the FBT cap on items such as:
  
• A healthy work-life balance through flexible work options, additional purchased leave and well-being programs
• Employee discount on St John of God Hospital & Medical Services and Private Health Insurance
• Dynamic multidisciplinary team

For enquiries contact Karen Ward, Acting Director of Nursing, on (03) 87845465

At St John of God Health Care, we celebrate diversity and warmly welcome applications from people of all backgrounds.

Our commitment is to create a safe and nurturing environment for all children and vulnerable individuals in our care and proactively take steps to protect them from abuse, ensuring their safety and well-being.

Our inclusive culture fosters an environment that is respectful and secure, welcoming and accessible, and unified through our diverse community.

All caregivers employed by St John of God Health Care are required to be Influenza in order to fulfil the requirements of the role.