AddressPosition Classification: Nurse Manager Grade 5
Remuneration: $75.96 - $77.25 ph + Super
Hours Per Week: 20
Requisition ID: REQ490120
- 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 with everything you need right at your front door!
- 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!
The role will be pivotal in supporting the LHD/SN in the implementation of SSL through the following initiatives:
- Workforce Profile updates and planning
- Large-scale recruitment across multiple specialty areas
- Supporting the local managers with roster configuration changes
- System changes including but not limited to StaffLink and HealthRoster
- Local policy, and procedure changes
- Staff and manager education and support
- Local implementation including reporting and monitoring processes
What is on offer
- 5 Weeks Annual Leave
- Salary packaging (pay less tax!) and enjoy up to $9k for living expenses+ $2.6k meal and entertainment
- Remote Area Housing Benefit
- Fitness Passport
- Novated Lease
- Paid Allocated Day Off (ADO) Every Month
- Isolation & climate allowance
- Support through advanced education & training
- A comfortable country lifestyle that supports balance & wellbeing
About the Far West LHD
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 Registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia
- Extensive recent management experience with experience in leading staff and managing services in the relevant setting, supported by a relevant tertiary management qualification and/or work experience.
- Demonstrated ability to effectively communicate and engage with all health team members involved in the change process, and to represent the organisation at a local level.
- Demonstrated experience in managing key priorities and delivering successful strategies to deliver service outcomes within tightly defined resources.
- Demonstrated understanding and participation in the implementation of organisational change, risk management, work health and safety and quality improvement in the workplace.
- Demonstrated evidence of the use of critical thinking to set goals, formulate plans and policies to achieve identified outcomes.
- Demonstrated ability to manage change and guide others through change processes.
The Welcome Experience
The Welcome Experience in Broken Hill connects you and your family with local people and local resources to help you settle in and feel at home in your new community faster.
Need more information?
Applications Close:16th June 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
