AddressCasual & Permanent Part-Time positions available
Salary range:
Permanent rate currently $65.57 (1st year) to $71.18/hour (4th year), increasing from July 2024 to $67.53 (1st year) to $73.32/hour (4th year) + superannuation
Casual rate currently $81.96 (1st year) to $88.98/hour (4th year), increasing from July 2024 to $84.42 (1st year) to $91.64/hour (4th year) + superannuation
About the Opportunity:
St Andrew’s Toowoomba Hospital (SATH) has an exciting opportunity for enthusiastic and motivated Registered Nurse to join our After Hours Nurse Manager team.
The After-Hours Nurse Manager plays a crucial role in overseeing and coordinating nursing activities to ensure the delivery of high-quality patient care, during evenings and weekend shifts.
About you:
- A dedicated, skilled and compassionate leader who can effectively manage emergent situations, make informed decisions and collaborate with other healthcare professionals
- Enjoy working in a fast-paced, welcoming and progressive private regional hospital, where you will draw on your abilities to provide excellent care and service to patients
- Keen to make your mark by supporting our amazing team in providing quality service to patients, their families, team members
- Continuous Patient Flow: Monitor and manage patient flow within the hospital, collaborating with various departments to optimize bed utilization and ensuring staffing levels are managed within the approved resource allocation to meet patient care requirements
- Clinical Reasoning: Apply sound clinical reasoning skills to assess patient needs and coordinate appropriate services and resources for post-discharge care
- Relationship Building: Establish and maintain strong relationships with patients, their families, healthcare providers, SATH team members and community organizations to facilitate comprehensive and efficient support systems for our patients
- Business Acumen: Demonstrate a strong understanding of healthcare business operations and financial considerations, ensuring the effective utilization of resources.
- Advanced level of clinical competence
- Well-developed communication skills to convey complex medical information in a clear and understandable manner with an ability to negotiate and influence
- High level leadership and team building skills and capabilities
- Strong time management skills and the ability to prioritise workload demands
- Effective problem-solving skills and an ability to make timely and informed decisions in high-pressure situations
- Ability to effectively work independently and collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams
- Minimum of four years post-graduate clinical experience in an acute clinical setting
- Demonstrated understanding of evidence-based practice and critical thinking
- Knowledge of and ability to implement contemporary care coordination practices
- Flexibility to work evenings and weekends
- Registration with AHPRA as a Registered Nurse
- Bachelor of Nursing (or equivalent)
- Minimum 4 years experience within an acute clinical setting
- Advanced Life Support (ALS) current qualification (or capacity to obtain)
- Ability to participate in a day, afternoon, night and weekend roster
To ensure SATH is best positioned to achieve ‘Excellence in Care and Service’ it is essential our team members remain engaged and committed to providing exceptional care and service.
Our staff are expected to align their behaviour and conduct with the Core Values of Respect, Dignity, Empathy, Courtesy, Fairness and Honesty.
Team Benefits:
- Working with dedicated, experienced, and professional team members
- Ongoing professional development opportunities
- Not for profit salary packaging through REMSERV up to $15,900 p.a plus meals and entertainment packaging up to $2650
- Free on-site carparking
- Excess waiver up to $250 per annum if admitted as a patient to St Andrew’s
- Employee Assistance Program for all team members
SATH is an Equal Opportunity Employer who provides an inclusive work environment and embraces the diverse talent of its people. We value people of all cultures, languages, capacities, sexual orientations, gender identities and/or expressions. We are committed to achieving a diverse workforce and strongly encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
About Us:
St Andrew’s Toowoomba Hospital (SATH) is a progressive 155 bed private not-for-profit stand-alone facility, established in 1966. The Hospital has a proud history of leading innovation in regional health services, including being the first regional hospital in Australia to undertake robotic assisted surgery.
We provide acute healthcare with Specialist Consultants and Surgeons across Cardiology, Orthopaedics, Oncology, General Surgery including Breast, Colorectal and Bariatrics, Urology, Gynaecology, General Physicians, Mental Health and many more specialties and sub-specialties. We are the regional Cancer Centre with Day Oncology, Inpatient Oncology and Radiotherapy services covering an area from Northern NSW to Kingaroy, Ipswich in the East to Roma and beyond.
St Andrew’s Toowoomba Hospital’s mission to our patients, families and community is to provide Excellence in Care and Service through embodying our values: Respect, Dignity, Empathy, Courtesy, Fairness and Honesty. Our patient satisfaction feedback level is consistently at or >95% satisfaction rate with a consistent Net Promoter Score >90% reflecting a customer service and care culture amongst our team.
As a registered not-for-profit hospital, St Andrew’s Toowoomba relies on strong community support including donations to further strengthen our vital service offering. What we make in profit is reinvested in new services, equipment, facility upgrades and refurbishments & staff training.
About our community:
Toowoomba is located 90 minutes’ drive west of Brisbane and boasts being Queensland’s largest inland city. Toowoomba has a great community and vibrant culture. This is coupled with a great family vibe where high quality education options are many, from Kindergarten to University; and a wide range of recreational pursuits provide something for everyone.
As one of the fastest growing regions in Queensland, Toowoomba has a range of new and emerging infrastructure, housing and public space developments. Boasting an international airport, nationally acclaimed schools, retail development and destination dining precincts, it is quickly gaining a reputation to surpass its bigger city counterparts. Discover more about our beautiful city at Live Toowoomba website.
Engagement is subject to the applicant fully satisfying the mandatory COVID-19 vaccination requirements and evidence must be produced as part of the recruitment process.
Enquiries: Jaclyn Oughtred (Director of Nursing) via email *********@sath.org.au
Applications close: 10 July 2024 (unless suitable applicant found sooner, as applications will be reviewed as received)
