Nurse Unit Manager Community Nursing And Hith

Employment Type: Permanent Full Time
Position Classification: Nurse Unit Manager Level 1
Remuneration: $123391.88 - $123391.88 + Super
Hours Per Week: 38
Requisition ID: REQ465755
Location:

• Great opportunity to join a supportive team and where you can make a real impact in providing the best patient experience.
• We really aren’t that far away - only 3 hours’ drive from Mildura, 5 hours from Adelaide or a short flight from anywhere in Australia.

Broken Hill truly is a town like no other with a supportive community that will welcome you with open arms. We can't wait to see you! Take a quick look at " " in the Far West.
What you'll be doing
Are you ready to take that next step in your nursing career in an exciting management role? Reporting directly to the Director of Nursing and Midwifery & Site Manager, you will be supported to achieve the best health outcomes for our patients. In the role you will:

• Optimise business outcomes, manage and reform change, and optimise rostering capability.
• Empower our staff to provide high quality healthcare through support, guidance and direction.
• Act as a senior clinician and role model to ensure care is delivered within professional boundaries, legal and ethical parameters, National Patient Safety and Quality Standards and NSW Health policies and procedures.

What is on offer

• 1 week extra paid annual leave
• Salary packaging (pay less tax!), includes Remote Area Housing Assistance and Meal Entertainment Card
• Paid Allocated Day Off (ADO) Every Month
• Special rates at local gyms
• Support through advanced education & training
• A comfortable country lifestyle that supports balance & wellbeing

About the Far West LHD
The is one of 15 LHDs under NSW Health, providing high quality public health services to the communities in far west NSW.. Our vision is to create excellence in rural and remote healthcare.
Key to our success of course, is our people. Our workforce is inclusive and diverse. We employ well over 800 clinicians and support staff across our 9 health facilities in Broken Hill, Balranald, Dareton, Ivanhoe, Menindee, Tibooburra, Wentworth, White Cliffs and Wilcannia.
In the Far West LHD, we are working together to make a real difference to the health outcomes for our communities. We encourage you to consider joining our friendly team for a meaningful and rewarding career in rural and remote healthcare.
About Broken Hill
A true “Oasis in the Outback”, Broken Hill is a thriving regional town in far west NSW full of diversity, history and character. Being Australia’s first city to be Nationally Heritage Listed, Broken Hill is a culturally rich town with a vibrant art scene with over 20 galleries! The unique attractions, festivals and beautiful natural landscapes see tourists flock from all over, but the ones who stay quickly fall in love with the place and its liveability.
With a population just shy of 20,000, Broken Hill is small enough to allow for a relaxed country lifestyle, while big enough to provide all the desired facilities of a regional hub including major supermarkets and retail stores, excellent schools (7 primary & 2 high), multiple gyms & aquatic centre, well-known fast food franchises and a plethora of trendy restaurants, pubs and cafés.
How to apply:
To be considered for this position, please ensure you address the selection criteria in the application as thoroughly as possible.

• Current nursing/midwifery registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA).
• Demonstrated effective interpersonal skills, excellent written, verbal communication skills and ability to negotiate resolutions and manage conflict.
• Proven ability to create and maintain a positive workplace culture and articulate and achieve a vision for nursing services in the critical care environment.
• Demonstrated focus on service excellence through the ability to read and act on issues quickly, decisively and effectively. Demonstrated ability to apply and share professional expertise to enhance patient/client care. Demonstrated ability to guide others to analyse problems and apply a range of solutions.
• Tertiary qualifications in Nursing and/or health management or actively working toward completion of same and/or relevant management experience.
• Demonstrated ability to ensure the human, physical and financial resources of the unit are managed to deliver safe and efficient health care within available resources.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively lead, coach, mentor, encourage and guide others to enable them to reach their full potential and effectively adapt to ongoing change within a multidisciplinary group with broad clinical experience and knowledge.
• Demonstrated computer literacy and ability to use a variety of NSW Health computer applications (e.g.word processing, excel and databases).

The Welcome Experience
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For role related queries or questions contact Julie Manoel on Julie.Manoel@health.nsw.gov.au
Applications Close: 29/2/2024
At Far West Local Health District we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, where we don’t just accept differences, but we honour and support it. Committed to providing a working environment that thrives and values diversity, we encourage people of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander background, people with a disability and people from the LGBTQI+ community to apply.