Nurse Unit Manager North Shore Ryde Child And Family Health

An exciting nursing leadership has opened for Nurses with management and leadership experience to apply for the NUM 3 role supporting the North Shore Ryde Child and Family Nursing team. The CFH North Shore Ryde Team works as part of the Northern Sydney Local Health District CFHN Service to facilitate children and their families meet optimal health, growth and development before going to school.
Employment Type: Permanent Full Time
Position Classification: Nurse Unit Manager (Level 3)
Remuneration: $2,543.42 per week
Hours Per Week: 38
Requisition ID: REQ450493
Who we are: We are a health service that touches thousands of lives across the Northern Sydney Local Health District, together as a team of like-minded people. We are passionate, driven and have the skills and knowledge to care for our patients whilst creating the best services possible. Our teams have meaningful, interesting and rewarding work everyday. We challenge and nurture each other, sharing our knowledge and experience so that we can deliver better care for everyone There’s a real sense of belonging here because we value and respect our patients, employees, and teams’ voices. You’ll feel a real privilege being a trusted caregiver in our patients, their families, their carers, and our communities’ lives.
Where you'll be working
Royal North Shore Community Health Centre and across a number of CFH centres in the North Shore Ryde Sector.
What you'll be doing
The NSLHD Nursing and Midwifery Workforce will be compassionate, competent, confident, contemporary, capable and committed to leading person-centred health care.
The Nurse Unit Manager (NUM) is pivotal in coordinating client care processes, managing and leading the nursing team to ensure delivery of high quality, safe and contemporary Child and Family Health care and efficient use of resources.
The NUM manages and leads a team working within a primary, community and population health context, to provide early healthcare support and intervention for families with young children. In NSW, Child, and Family Health Nursing (CFHN) services support parents to optimise their own, and their children's health, well-being, physical, emotional and social development in the first 2000 days of life - to give children the best possible start to life and optimise their health and development before they start school.
The NUM manages a team who provide universal and secondary level Child and Family Health services across multiple community health centres. The NUM ensures the effective functioning of the team and sites providing care, and responsibilities also include a duty of care to ensure that there is a safe working environment.
The position’s management responsibilities are pivotal to enable appropriate, timely and effective nursing care. The NUM takes responsibility for the standard of patient care in their team, leads with integrity and in a manner to ensure that care provision is compassionate, evidence-based effective, safe, person-centred, trauma-informed, and provided in partnership with families and carers.
The position leads the nursing team, and other direct reporting staff and supports their appropriate professional development to meet the service demands and to realise their potential. The NUM works collaboratively with the CYF Allied Health and Sector Clinical Leads as part of the broader Child and Family Community Health Service senior leadership team within the Northern Sydney Local Health District Primary and Community Health Service. The NUM also works collaboratively with other health professionals, government and non-government family support services to ensure care for children and their families/carers is safely integrated across services.
People of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander background encouraged to apply.
Candidates will need to meet the following criteria:

• Registered Nurse-Division 1 with Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (APHRA) postgraduate qualification relevant to Child and Family Health or demonstrated advanced clinical knowledge and extensive post-graduate experience relevant to Child and Family Health nursing practice.
• Demonstrated high-level interpersonal communication, negotiation, problem solving and adaptability skills, supporting ability to work in a multidisciplinary, community health team environment.
• Demonstrated ability to lead, support and manage all operational aspects of a clinical service being provided across multiple community centres.
• Demonstrated ability to initiate, lead and implement change including new models of care and evidence-based practice designed to improve client experience and clinical outcomes.

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For role related queries or questions contact Margaret Hayes on Margaret.Hayes@health.nsw.gov.au or 0436 377 334
All NSW Health workers are required to provide evidence of having received two doses of COVID-19 vaccine in accordance with the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (TGA). Employees working in a clinical area or are required to attend clinical areas are considered category A and need to meet the requirements of the .
Acceptable proof of vaccination is the Australian Immunisation Register (AIR) Immunisation History Statement or AIR COVID-19 Digital Certificate.
Applications Close: 30 January 2024