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 Bendigo Hospital is a 122-bed contemporary private hospital located in central Victoria providing high quality acute medical and surgical health care services for people in Bendigo and surrounding areas

Your Position at St John of God Bendigo Hospital
We currently have an opportunity for a suitably qualification Critical Care Nurse to join our team on permanent full-time basis. Join our 12-bed unit providing a mix of Intensive Care, High Dependency, and Cardiac Care.In this role you will work across a rotating roster including night shifts.

The Position:

• Assist in the planning, delivery and evaluation of a high standard of nursing care in consultation with the health care team, patient and carers.
• Provide safe, holistic and customer-focused patient care.
• Ensure nursing care is documented accurately and in a timely manner.
• Ensure medical treatment orders are implemented and documented, consulting with doctors if orders are unclear.
• Assess the need for and provide health education for patients and carers
• Ensure nursing care is practiced according to professional and organisational clinical standards, policies and procedures
• Organise team and individual workloads; prioritise and delegate as appropriate
• Provide effective verbal and written communication ensuring the patient, carers and the interdisciplinary team are all included in the immediate and ongoing health care.
  

You will have a registration with Nursing & Midwifery Board of Australia (AHPRA) as a Registered Nurse and Postgraduate Qualifications in Critical Care Nursing.

To succeed you will a sound understanding of Australian College of Intensive Care Nurses (ACCCN) Standards of Practice for Specialist Critical Care Nurses and demonstrate an excellent level of knowledge and skills relevant to the Critical Care environment.

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

The Benefits:

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

• Salary: $68,093 to $96,175 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
  

St John of God Health Care embraces diversity and strongly encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and people with disabilities. We are committed to providing a safe environment for all children and vulnerable people in our care and proactively take measures to protect children/vulnerable people from abuse.

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

For enquiries contact Sep Gan, NUM, on (03) 5434 3434