Registered Nurse - Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

Registered Nurse - Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

John Hunter Children's Hospital

About the role:

In this role you will provide safe compassionate person-centred care within the NICU ensuring safe care is delivered in collaboration with patients/families/carers and multidisciplinary team to achieve identified goals and outcomes.

We are looking for an enthusiastic, reliable, skilled Neonatal Nurse who is committed to providing excellent family-centred care.

Where you’ll be working: 

• The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at John Hunter Children’s Hospital in beautiful Newcastle, is one of the largest and busiest NICU’s in NSW. This 44 bed unit provides Intensive Care support for newborns requiring medical and surgical care in the HNE and Mid North Coast area.
• You will join a dynamic, passionate team of Health Professionals, in a newly refurbished, state-of-the-art Unit, with the latest healthcare technology.

Benefits: 

• Up to 12 allocated days off each year (for full-time employees).
• Four (4) weeks annual leave for temporary and permanent employees (pro-rata if part time) and Six (6) weeks annual leave for eligible full-time nurses.
• Fitness Passport.
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for staff and family members.
• Opportunity to work and collaborate with a range of non-clinical and clinical professionals.
• Working for a highly regarded public health facility, where supporting the local community is at the forefront of our business strategy.
• Career Development opportunity.
• This role is supported by the NICU Nurse Unit Manager’s, NICU Nurse Educator and Manager Newborn Services.
• Appropriate orientation and education to the role will be provided.

Requirements:Our successful candidate will possess the following:

• Current registration as a Registered Nurse / Registered Midwife with AHPRA.

About you:

• You will have extensive experience in Neonatal Nursing.
• You will be self-motivated, flexible, adaptable, empathetic, resilient and demonstrated commitment to evidenced based clinical practice.
• You will have high level communication skills, both verbal and written, and an understanding/qualifications in adult learning principles, and demonstrated teaching ability.

Additional information:

• An eligibility list will be created for future permanent full or part time and temporary full or part time vacancies.
• We are unable to accommodate visa sponsorship for applicants requiring a visa for this position.

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Information for Applicants:

Applicants will be assessed against the essential requirements and selection criteria contained within the position description (link below).

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This is a Category A position. Recommended applicants will be reviewed for compliance with NSW Health policy directive

All NSW Health workers are required to have completed a primary course of a COVID-19 vaccine which has been approved or recognised by the Therapeutics Goods Administration (TGA). New applicants must have completed the vaccination course prior to commencement with NSW Health or provide an approved medical contraindication certificate (AIR Immunisation History Statement) certifying the worker cannot have any approved COVID-19 vaccines available in NSW.

Acceptable proof of COVID-19 vaccination is the Australian Immunisation Register (AIR) Immunisation History Statement (IHS), or AIR COVID-19 Digital Certificate, or AIR COVID-19 and Influenza IHS. Booster doses are highly recommended for all health care workers who have completed the primary course of COVID-19 vaccinations. 

Salary Packaging:

HNE Health employees may be eligible for a range of

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