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SalaryEnrolled Nurse
Geriatric Evaluation and Management Unit (GEM)
Multiple Positions
Permanent full time or part time hours available
About the role
The Geriatric Evaluation and Management (GEM) Unit provides assessment and rehabilitation for patients within a 24-bed facility. This position is working within a multi-disciplinary team of medical nursing and allied health.
In this role you would be dealing with a variety of patients recovering from a stroke, orthopaedic surgery, dementia and other health conditions where function has declined requiring rehabilitation to assist with regaining function and discharge planning to the next appropriate location of care.
The staff in GEM work closely in conjunction with a multi-disciplinary health care team to provide the best practice standards of patient care and service delivery that meets the needs and preference of our patients, families and carers.
As a member of staff, you will be supported and empowered to deliver inpatient services, ensuring education, training and clinical competence meets the requirements of the clinical specialities across the inpatient services and must have the availability to work across all shifts including morning, afternoons, evenings and nights over a 7-day week by roster.
Suitable applicants must also demonstrate competence in the following behaviours:
- Adaptability
- Initiating Action
- Managing Work (including Time Management)
- Work Standards
- Stress Tolerance
- Collaboration
Grampians Health was established 1 November 2021, bringing together Edenhope and District Memorial Hospital, Stawell Regional Health, Wimmera Health Care Group and Ballarat Health Services to deliver safe, sustainable, healthcare tailored to changing workforce and community needs, for the long term.
This partnership follows years of strong collaboration and close partnerships between the four health services. Together, we will deliver better healthcare, enhance services and advance careers, closer to home, now and into the future.
A career with Grampians Health means you are connected and are part of a team providing quality healthcare to rural and regional communities. Our communities are diverse, as is our workforce, with expert clinical staff from across the world choosing to live and work in our beautiful region.
Grampians Health provides acute, maternity, mental health, allied health, aged care, administration and support services. This means your career will be as diverse and rewarding as you strive to be.
At Grampians Health, we recognise our staff are our greatest asset. We are committed to providing a safe and healthy environment for our staff, patients, residents, visitors, volunteers and contractors at all sites.
- Flexible work arrangements and purchase leave opportunities
- Salary packaging for living expenses such as rent/mortgage plus meals, entertainment & holidays
- Discounted on-site parking
- Access to discounted health club membership
- Staff rewards and recognition programs
Ballarat is the largest centre in Western Victoria and the state’s fastest growing inland city. Dubbed Australia’s most liveable city in 2020, Ballarat is home to first class education, fine dining and boutique shopping. Uniquely located within easy access to Melbourne, Geelong, Bendigo and the Western district, Ballarat is blessed with some of Australia’s most significant heritage buildings and natural landscapes.
How to apply
Click APPLY or contact Karen Moran, Nurse Unit Manager, on 03 5320 3784 for a confidential discussion.
This position is paid in accordance with the Nurses and Midwives (Victorian Public Sector) (Single Interest Employers) Enterprise Agreement 2020 - 2024. The classification is Enrolled Nurse Grade 2 (IB68 - IB72) which ranges from $33.83 - $36.00 per hour.
All appointments are subject to a satisfactory police records check, immunisation clearance and Working with Children check and/or NDIS Worker Screening Check.
All employees must be willing and able to wear Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) when required, which at a minimum is a surgical mask. Additional PPE requirements are role-dependent.
Grampians Health is a child safe organisation, committed to the safety and wellbeing of all children and young people.
Grampians Health is committed to providing a diverse and inclusive workforce. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disability, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, mature age workers and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (or questioning), intersex and asexual LGBTQIA+
Selection Criteria
- Essential : Do you hold current registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA)? Please detail your registration number.
- Essential : Describe a procedure you have used to keep track of items requiring your attention. Tell me about a time when you used this procedure.
- Essential : At one time or another, we've all forgotten to do something important for an internal/external customer. Tell me about a time when this happened to you.
- Essential : Tell me about the most challenging change you have faced at work. Looking for the situation, what you did, why you did it and what the outcome was.
- Essential : Tell me what each of the following values mean to you and how do you demonstrate each value at work: Collaboration. Respect. Accountability. Compassion. Innovation.
- Essential : Not all organisational changes are clearly explained and/or communicated. What have you done when you found out about an unexpected change or were confused by a change
- Essential : Tell me about a time when you had to change or adjust your work schedule to get your work done.
- Essential : What does patient centred care mean to you? Can you give us an example of when you demonstrated patient centred care?
- Essential : Have you received three doses of a COVID19 vaccine? If no, please provide further detail regarding doses received, booking dates and/or other relevant information.
- Essential : The successful candidate must hold, or be prepared to undergo, an employee Working with Children Check (WWCC). Please advise if you currently hold an employee WWCC, if not are you willing to undergo one?
Closing Date
Position Description
EN Level 1 2 Generic (Nursing and Mid, Acute, Sub-acute and Residential) Dec 2023.pdf
Application Guide
Please note that this position will close at 11:45pm on the closing date.
Please ensure your application is added before this time as we do not accept late applications.
