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Form of workAbout Mulgrave Private Hospital
We are an acute medical and surgical hospital with 240 beds, conveniently located in the south-eastern suburbs of Melbourne easily accessible via the Monash Freeway and East Link.
Our services include:
- 24-hour Emergency Department
- 10 bed Intensive Care Unit
- 17 bed Coronary Care Unit
- 9 Operating Theatres including a Hybrid Theatre, Cardiac Catheter Laboratory and Endoscopy Suite
- Day Surgery Centre
- Medical & Surgical Wards
- Consulting Suites (on-site and off-site)
- Diagnostic Imaging (including EOS)
- Pathology
- Radiation Oncology (operated by ICON)
Reporting to the Perioperative Services Manager, the Nurse Unit Manager of Mulgrave Private Day Surgery Centre plays a critical operational leadership role in the facilitation of patient care in our new Day Surgery Centre. The Day Surgery Centre houses two operating theatres, an endoscopy suite, stage 1, 2 and 3 recovery and its own CSSD. The role encompasses supporting the nursing and medical teams to provide exceptional patient care and ensure positive patient outcomes. The Nurse Unit Manager will display experience in human resource management, including labour hours management, agency utilization and absenteeism management. In collaboration with our educators, you will be responsible for supervising the education of our graduate nurses, registered and enrolled nurses.
The success profile and key accountabilities of this position include:
- Providing strong, effective leadership, fostering development and support of the staff in the Day Surgery Centre.
- Collaboration between Day surgery teams in the main hospital as well as Day Surgery Centre.
- Comprehensive understanding of ACORN Standards, professional guidelines and government policy in relation to operating theatres and Day Surgery
- Development of strong collaborative relationships with the Visiting Medical Officers and interdisciplinary team members.
- Enhancement of relationships with other departments within the hospital
Essential Criteria:
- Bachelor’s Degree of Nursing
- Previous consolidated perioperative, or Day Surgery, senior nursing management experience.
- Well refined leadership skills and effective interpersonal communication
- Proven experience in managing KPI datasets including monitoring of activity targets, human resource management (WHPOM), or demonstrated capacity to manage same.
- Core knowledge of ACORN standards and ACHS national standards and implementation and monitoring of quality activities to support these standards.
Applications close 8th March 2024
For further information please contact:
Liz McKenna
Perioperative Services Manager
Telephone: 03 8791 6***
Email: ***************@healthecare.com.au
