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Position Title Graduate Enrolled & Registered Nurse Program | The Wesley Hospital 2024 Mid-Year Intake
Employment Status Permanent Full Time, Permanent Part Time
Entity The Wesley Hospital
Enterprise Agreement NURSE - Nurses Enterprise Agreement - Registered Nurse - Level 1
Position Summary
2024 Mid Year Graduate Enrolled and Registered Nurse Program | The Wesley Hospital
- Employment Term: offering both permanent full-time and part-time (0.8 FTE) opportunities
- Location: located Auchenflower, just 5 mins from Toowong Shopping Village and 10 mins from Brisbane City
- Remuneration: $40.45 p/h + 11% Super + Not for Profit Salary Packaging + Penalties & Allowances
We’re looking for someone who wants to make the world a little better through small moments that leave big impacts. To build meaningful relationships and make a difference in the lives of others.
An integral part of our team at The Wesley Hospital as a Graduate Registered Nurse you’ll be encouraged to grow, develop and feel empowered to make the everyday easier for the people we care so passionately about.
Let’s make a meaningful difference, together.
What makes a difference for you?
The Wesley Hospital is one of Australia’s iconic and largest private not-for-profit hospitals, caring for you for life. From the heart of Brisbane more than 800 Visiting Medical Practitioners and 2,000 staff deliver personalised care through life’s journey for generations of Queenslanders.
- Flexible work arrangements to support work-life balance
- Access to salary packaging, meal and entertainment benefits - up to $15,900 per year tax free as well as up to $2,650 of your pre-tax income to pay for meal and entertainment benefits
- Subsidised On-Site Parking
- A recognition and rewards platform, providing employee discounts at hundreds of retailers, including everyday expenses, holidays, health insurance, a wellbeing program and employee assistance program
- A positive and inclusive team based on respect, shared standards, strong values and a commitment to serving others
- Professional development, through Graduate Certificates, skills development courses, bursaries, grants and partnerships with leading Universities (Hospitals).
- Career development opportunities to challenge yourself, grow and make a meaningful difference
As a Wesley Graduate, you will have the opportunity to work with a world-renowned health care team in one of Queensland’s most complex and high acuity hospital environments. We offer comprehensive care across a wide range of acute tertiary-level medical and surgical services with a particular focus on cancer care, cardiac care, women’s and children’s care, and complex surgical care. This includes the busiest robotic surgery program and the first Robotic Surgery Centre of Excellence accredited in Australia.
Over the course of your 12-month program, you can expect to be exposed to varied and exciting work. You will be provided the support and opportunity to consolidate your skills and learning, to deliver safe and holistic person-centred care, apply best clinical practice and ensure a safe environment for patients. Working collaboratively with your multidisciplinary team, you will apply your exceptional communication and customer service skills.
Most importantly, we offer educators, leaders and team mates who genuinely care from the heart about your success. Some have been supporting and educating others for over 20 years – so they have a good understanding of what you’ll experience during your first year in the real world.
We’re extremely proud of the graduate support and learning experience we provide. Graduate study days, education sessions, formal courses, workshops and supernumerary hours are just some of the ways we support you in your graduate year. Then, once finished, you’ll be encouraged to continue your career and development with The Wesley, or explore the many opportunities within UnitingCare.
Streams to consolidate your skills:
This intake we'll be offering permanent full-time and part-time (0.8 FTE) opportunities to Graduate Enrolled and Registered Nurses into our General Nursing, Perioperative and Dual Registered Nurse/ Midwifery streams.
Whichever stream you choose, our 12-month program will provide you with a deep, rich learning experience, supported by experienced staff who care about your future. As a high-acuity, specialist facility, our program will allow you to focus on developing your clinical expertise in your chosen speciality.
You will have the opportunity to broaden your experience and build your skills in the following programs:
General Nursing Stream (two 6-month rotations)
- Acute Medicine
- Cardiology and Vascular
- Coronary Care
- Neuroscience
- Oncology
- Orthopaedics
- Palliative Care
- Rehabilitation
- Respiratory
- General Surgery
- Urology
- Women's Health & Plastics
- All areas of midwifery including labour, post-natal, special care nursery
- General nursing rotation
- Scrub/Scout
- Anaesthetics
To be eligible to apply, you will need:
- To have completed your Bachelor of Nursing; or Bachelor of Nursing and Bachelor of Midwifery (if applying for Graduate Registered Nurse and Midwifery Program) between June 2023 and June 2024
- To hold registration with AHPRA by 30th June 2024
- Flexibility to work a full rotating roster (in a full-time or part-time 0.8 FTE position)
Joining the Wesley Hospital, you’ll also be welcomed as part of the UnitingCare family. The second-largest Queensland employer, we’re a proud not-for-profit with more than 16,500 staff and 9,000 volunteers across our brands of BlueCare, Lifeline, ARRCS, The Wesley Hospital, Buderim Private Hospital, St Stephen’s Hospital, and St Andrew’s War Memorial Hospital, and have been leading by example for more than 100 years. Our team are compassionate, inclusive and committed to the work we do, helping people live life in all its fullness.
Start making a difference today
To submit your application, please ensure you complete the following steps:
- Click the Apply button and respond to the relevant selection criteria
- Upload a Cover Letter and updated Resume outlining your experience and education
- Please ensure you have clearly listed your completed prac details within your CV
- (Perioperative applicants please also submit your perioperative prac report if completed)
- What you believe you could contribute to the team at The Wesley Hospital
- Which areas of nursing you are most passionate about and why
- How this Graduate opportunity will support your long terms goals
Diversity & Inclusion
Our approach is simple –everybody is welcome here. At UnitingCare, diversity is at the core of our who we are, our mission and our values. We are committed to providing equal opportunities to all employees no matter their sex, race, culture, sexual orientation, disability or gender identity. Demonstrating our commitment to reconciliation and building long-term employment opportunities for First Nations peoples, UnitingCare strongly encourages Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants for this position.
Safe workplace
We work hard to make our services welcoming and safe for every person. We are united in keeping children, young people and the elderly safe from harm, within our services, workplaces and the communities we support. We are committed to speaking up loudly for their safety.
Vaccination
All employees are required to comply with statutory and Government requirements and UnitingCare's COVID-19 vaccination requirements policy. The successful applicant must be able to provide a Covid-19 Certificate before commencing employment.
opportunities available
Selection Criteria Essential: Do you have unlimited working entitlements in Australia as an Australian Citizen, Australian Permanent Resident or New Zealand Passport Holder?
Essential: If your application is successful, commencement on our program will commence 22nd July 2024. Will you hold registration with AHPRA by 30th June 2024?
Essential: Have you or will you have completed your studies between the period June 2023 and June 2024?
Essential: Please list the month AND year you have OR intend to complete your studies: eg answer format: June 2024
Essential: We are offering a rotational General Nursing Program, a joint Nursing and Midwifery Program and a non-rotational Perioperative Program (Anaesthetics or Scrub/Scout). Please indicate your FIRST preference: Please type your answer as General Nursing, Perioperative OR Nursing/Midwifery
Essential: If you are unable to secure your first preference, are you also interested in a placement in one of our other programs?
Essential: If you are applying for our Perioperative Program, have you or are you scheduled to complete a perioperative prac? (please provide details in your cover letter or CV)
Essential: We are offering both permanent full-time and part-time (0.8 FTE) opportunities. Please list your preference (please note, those successful for the Perioperative stream will be required to work full-time for the first 6 weeks supernumerary period).
Essential: Graduate positions work on a rotational roster, which includes; day, evening, night shifts,weekends and public holidays. It may also include on call shifts. Do you agree to the terms of the rotational roster?
Essential: Out of interest, have you previously completed a student placement at a UnitingCare Hospital facility. If yes, please specify the area:
Essential: Out of interest, are you currently employed with The Wesley or UnitingCare? If yes, please specify.
Essential: Please indicate if you're applying for a Registered Nurse or Enrolled Nurse program? Please answer EN or RN
Not Essential: We are committed to improving work opportunities and environments for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Do you identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander? If yes, would you like a member of our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Partnerships Team to contact you?
Essential: Is there anything you would like to make us aware of, such as requirements for additional support or adjustments during the recruitment process or within your role if you were successful? If yes, please outline what support you require:
Essential: How did you hear about The Wesley Hospital Graduate Program? eg. Seek, Word of mouth, Linkedin, University Job Board, Social Media etc.
Contact Person Kristen Price
Contact Number 1
Contact Email gradnurserecruitment@uchealth.com.au
Closing Date 06/04/2024
Position Description Registered Nurse.pdf
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