Nurse/Counsellor

North Western BreastScreen

Nurse/ Counsellor Team Leader

• Part Time Fixed Term to April 2025 - 45 hours per fortnight
• Work in a multidisciplinary team environment based at our Royal Park Campus
  
• Excellent hours, 8:00 am-4:00 pm, no evening or weekend shifts

North Western BreastScreen is part of Royal Melbourne Hospital and BreastScreen Victoria. The Program offers free digital mammograms to women in the target group, aged 50-69, living or working in the north western region of Melbourne. The service is also accessible to women 40 to 75 years old. North Western delivers an expert clinical and non-clinical breast service with great emphasis on a multidisciplinary team approach, whereby clinical and support staff work together at the assessment centre located at the Royal Park Campus.

BreastScreen Victoria services are delivered throughout Victoria and involve a mix of public and private providers.

The lead Nurse/Counsellor is a key member of the multidisciplinary management team, responsible for overseeing telephone and face to face interaction with clients. The nurse counsellors are responsible for providing information and support to women returning for further investigations following the detection of a change in the screening mammogram.

Your new role:

• Demonstrate leadership and a commitment to person-centred care and best practice standards.
• Supporting the team in providing excellent care, including information and support to women returning to clinic for further investigation following the detection of a possible abnormality.
• Lead and maintain effective communication with all other relevant health professionals and support staff, consumers, families, the community and external care providers.

About you:

• You have acute hospital experience in a multidisciplinary environment.
• You are looking for opportunities to expand your leadership skills and work with world clinical leaders in the diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer.
• You have effective communication skills and a passion for continued professional development.
• You are an AHPRA registered Nurse with experience in a similar setting and committed to achieving positive outcomes for patients.

Benefit of working with The Royal Melbourne Hospital:

• Opportunity to further develop expertise in BreastScreen and breast care.
• Join a values-based organisation offering great opportunities for career diversity and professional development, including training and research opportunities, as well as access to mentorship and leadership programs.
• Ongoing reward and recognition programs including monthly ‘You Made a Difference’ awards celebrating staff and teams across the organisation.
• Take advantage of an expanding employee benefits program, with comprehensive Health & Wellbeing programs to support work life balance, including onsite staff gym and staff vaccination program.
• Up to $12,000 tax free earnings with salary packaging options, five weeks of annual leave per year (pro-rata for part time employees).

The RMH stands in solidarity with First Nations people in work and care. We are proud to be a workplace that champions diversity and inclusion for our staff and our community. Our goal is for our people to feel safe, included and supported so that they can be at their best every single day. We encourage talented people from all backgrounds, abilities, and identities to apply to our vacancies, and will consider adjustments to support such applications.

Interested? Apply today!

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All appointments are made subject to a satisfactory Criminal History Record Check, and where applicable, Working With Children Check (WWCC). All RMH employees are required to provide evidence of an immunisation assessment including evidence of vaccination against COVID-19 (3 doses) and Influenza with a TGA approved vaccine (mandatory for all clinical and or patient facing roles) prior to commencement. This is in accordance with the Victorian Minister of Health’s Mandatory Vaccination Orders for COVID-19 and legislated requirement for influenza vaccination.