Enrolled Nurse - Emergency Department, Mmc

Embark on a rewarding career and be part of a team where your dedication makes a difference in people’s lives.

About the Role

Join our team as an Enrolled Nurse on a full time or part time, ongoing capacity to work at Monash Medical Centre based at Clayton, across a 7 day, rotating roster.

Yours is a pivotal front-line role, supported by a Registered Nurse, providing emergency care within a dynamic fast paced setting.  The role requires that you are committed to:

• Practicing safely within the profession and the scope of practice for an enrolled Nurse
• Role Modelling nursing excellence and continuing to enhance your skills through continuous development and education
• Teamwork and communication to ensure effective  information flow across the broader healthcare team
• Developing, promoting and progressing continuous quality improvement initiatives to promote a safe workplace that strives towards excellence and best patient outcomes

About Us

The Clayton Emergency Department provides tertiary emergency services for adult and paediatric patients across Southeast Melbourne and surrounding regional areas. The Department is responsible for near 100,000 emergency presentations annually and is currently in the process of being commissioned into separate adult, and paediatric departments.

• The Paediatric Emergency Department will have 38 treatment spaces, including three resuscitation cubicles, six isolation rooms and a twelve bed Paediatric short stay unit. The paediatric Emergency Department serves as an entry point to our paediatric tertiary level care at the Monash Children’s Hospital and has a diverse range of onsite specialist support services.  
• The Adult Emergency Department will have 75 treatment spaces, including six resuscitation cubicles, eight isolation rooms and a 20-bed adult short stay unit. It also supports a purpose-built Mental Health and Other Drugs (MHAOD) hub, which includes six dedicated cubicles, interview, and sensory rooms to provide an optimal environment to assess and manage patients presenting with behavioural health needs. The adult MMC Clayton hospital provides tertiary level care for Neurosurgery and Stroke services and also includes a diverse range of specialist support services onsite.   

About You

To ensure your success in this role you will bring the following demonstrated skills, experience and knowledge:

• Demonstrated experience within an acute hospital
• Positive attitude and ability to work in a fast paced, stressful environment
• Strong communication skills and critical thinking capability
• Commitment to ongoing learning and providing evidence based emergency care, seeking all opportunities to upskill
• Registration with AHPRA to practice as an Enrolled Nurse

In Return

Ours is a connected team with strong shared values and an unwavering commitment to excellence in patient centred emergency care. We are a highly skilled, collaborative and welcoming multidisciplinary emergency team, where the only limit in your career is you.

There is no better time to join us and here’s just a few reasons why:-

• continual upskilling of clinical skills to further develop your clinical pathway
• leadership team fostering high performing talent and career progression
• lifestyle change with access to the many jewels of Melbourne’s south-east living

For a confidential discussion and to explore the opportunity further, please call Lucy Johnston Recruitment Specialist on 0436626***

Monash Health is a great place to work

• To learn more about our organisation visit monashhealth.org
• To see first-hand what our colleagues think about working here, take a look at the following short videos: monashhealth.org/careers

Monash Health is Victoria’s largest and most comprehensive health service. For more than 170 years, Monash Health and its predecessors have provided safe, high-quality healthcare for people at every life stage. With 25,500 employees, we provide care to south-eastern metropolitan Melbourne and rural Victoria from over 40 locations, via telehealth, within local communities and in people’s homes.

We recognise the value of equal employment opportunity.  We are committed to patient safety, promoting fairness, equity and diversity in the workplace and to Child Safe Standards. At Monash Health we are relentless in our pursuit of excellence and work to our six guiding principles and our five ICare values.

How to Apply

Applications are accepted via the Monash Health online Mercury System (e-recruit).

For information including how to apply and probity check requirements, refer to attached ‘Application Guide’ located under Position Documents

Applications will be screened upon receipt and selection activity may commence prior to the closing date.

Respectfully, applications from Recruitment Agencies will not be accepted.