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Nurse Unit Manager- Day Oncology
Apply locations VIC - Melbourne, Fitzroy time type Full time posted on Posted Yesterday time left to apply End Date: August 31, 2025 (29 days left to apply) job requisition id JR143889
Job Description:
* Excellent Employee Benefits including salary sacrificing
* Friendly, supportive environment in a great location
* Leading not-for-profit private hospital
St Vincent's Private Hospital Melbourne (SVPHM) is a facility of St Vincent's Health Australia under the stewardship of Mary Aikenhead Ministries. We are a not-for-profit Catholic private hospital which operates across four sites at Fitzroy, East Melbourne, Kew and Werribee.
This is a very exciting time to be joining our organisation. Our Fitzroy hospital is in its last stages of its redevelopment and the Day Oncology Unit has just moved into a brand-new state of the art space on our 8th floor. The unit has proudly expanded capacity from 7 to 15 chairs, each in private treatment pods, in a lighter and brighter area.
For this full time position, we are seeking an enthusiastic and knowledgeable Nurse Unit Manager for our Day Oncology Unit based at our Fitzroy campus.
Reporting to the General Manager/Director of Clinical Services, the successful candidate will be responsible for the day-to-day management of our 15 chair unit as well as providing leadership that promotes advancement of clinical practice.
You will be managing our wonderful supportive caring teamthat provide patients with many different infusions including chemotherapy, immunotherapy, monoclonal antibodies, iron infusionsand blood transfusions. All our staff are chemotherapy competent and we follow EVIQ guidelines.
The successful candidate will need to demonstrate extensive leadership experience in this area whilst being driven to ensure a high quality of patient centred care is delivered ensuring an exceptional patient experience. They must also have strong communication and teamwork skills to work effectively with all key stakeholders, including their peers, Allied Health Team and our Accredited Medical Practitioners (AMP's).
Responsibilities will include (but will not be limited to);
* Provide direction, support and advice to nursing staff and other support personnel
* Establish and develop effective relationships with staff, AMPs, patients, families and significant others
* Act as a positive role model maintaining the unit and hospital policies and procedures
* Exhibit leadership qualities and utilise team building strategies to promote a continuous improvement culture leading to improved patient outcomes and experience
* Lead the team for efficient and effective management of resources by promoting flexibility and responsiveness to ensure alignment with activity
The successful candidate will have;
* Current registered nurse with AHPRA registration
* Experience and understanding of Day Oncology nursing is essential
* Ability to influence and lead continuous quality of care improvements
* Demonstrated leadership and managerial skills
* High level of communication and interpersonal skills
* Experience in the use of IT platforms such as Meditech, Mosaiq, IBA(Webpas), IMC, Kronos, and Riskman, or similar.
How to Apply:
Your application must contain a cover letter and CV to be considered.
For further information about this role please contact our Denise – Talent Partner on denise.men@svha.org.au.
Benefits include:
A supportive and friendly atmosphere, salary packaging (increase your take home pay), ongoing education support, comprehensive orientation, uniform, discounted car parking and easy access to public transport. Competitive annual salary and conditions.
We are committed to equal employment opportunity, ethical practices, the principles of cultural diversity and promote a smoke free work environment.
At SVPH M we acknowledge the importance of creating a work environment that is welcoming, safe, equitable and inclusive for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Employees. As part of SVHA's Commitment to the federal government employment parity initiative we encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples. If you would like further information, contact our National Human Resources and Indigenous Programs Specialist, Edward Solien on(07) 3435 7256.
Permission to conduct a police check is required. A valid working with children check is required.
POSITION DETAILS
OUR ST VINCENTS St Vincent's Health Australia (SVHA) is a non-profit health organisation founded by the Sisters of Charity in 1857. We are renowned for industry leading research, education and the provision of exceptional and compassionate care. St Vincent's is shaping a future health and aged care system that supports people with life-changing care, wherever and whoever they are. We care for people in our public and private hospitals, at home and in our aged care residences across NSW, QLD and Victoria.
Our vision at St Vincent's is that every person, whoever and wherever they are, is served with excellent and compassionate care, by a better and fairer health and aged care system. Our 30,000 exceptional and dedicated staff together lead St
Vincent's to deliver three key priorities:
• Enhance Impact: Continuously improve our care, enhancing our positive impacts for patients, people, and our planet.
• Connect Care: Work together, building "One St Vincent's" capabilities and services to create the future of connected health and aged care.
• Transform the System: Work with partners to shape a better and fairer health and aged care system.
St Vincent's welcomes people from all backgrounds and beliefs and provides them with opportunities to pursue their professional goals within a highly supportive and collaborative team environment.
ROLE IMPACT
The purpose of the Nurse Unit Manager is to build, lead and maintain a high performing nursing team to ensure excellence in clinical practice, patient care and patient experience. Also the purpose includes overall management of the appointed clinical unit to maximise effective business and patient outcomes while ensuring that the philosophy and values of St Vincent's Private Hospital Melbourne are inherent in the delivery of health care services.
ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES
Patient/Resident Centred
• Actively participate in key initiatives that contribute to improvements in person centred care.
• Take a partnership approach to care provision by embedding person centred care principles in all aspects of work.
• Ensure consumers receive information in an appropriate and accessible format.
• Actively support consumers to make informed decisions about their treatment and ongoing care.
• Ensure consumers are aware of their rights responsibilities and how to provide feedback.
• Uphold the expected standards of service excellence.
Position Accountabilities
• Demonstrates a professional commitment to other health care professionals by embracing a team approach to care based on mutual respect and direct communication between health professionals, and embracing and actively participating in organisational change
• Effectively deliver patient centred care within defined budgets, through efficient management of KPIs
• Deliver patient centred care that coordinates individualised care from admission and throughout hospitalisation, incorporating discharge planning in the plan of care
• Includes provision of detailed documentation of a systematic comprehensive and accurate assessment of patients.
• Evaluates the documentation of patient outcomes.
• Enhances the dignity and integrity of the patient and upholds their rights.
• Maintains confidentiality and ensures that patient and hospital information and records are not disclosed or misused in any way.
• Coordinates and implements the intervention(s) identified in the plan of care/ clinical path.
• Evaluates and records progress towards expected outcomes and revises the plan of care as necessary.
• Formulates and coordinates in conjunction with the Visiting Medical Practitioner (VMP) a plan of care, making substantive nursing judgements based on the health status, physical examination, preference, care and progress of each patient.
• Communicates patient response to treatment and care and documents accordingly
• Liaise with GM/ Hospital Coordinator/Patient Flow Manager and Associate Nurse Unit Managers (ANUM) in the management of patient acuity and staffing requirements.
• Facilitates communication between the patient, family, medical, nursing, ancillary and allied health staff.
• Initiates referrals and utilises available resources for the purpose of comprehensive care to patients and families.
• Appreciates the complexity of moral decision making, working cooperatively with other members of the health care team to resolve ethical and clinical issues arising in patient care.
• Effectively manage and achieve organisational change within unit context, as directed by the Senior Leadership Team (SLT)
• Provide direction, support and advice to nursing staff and other support personnel.
• Participates in team and hospital activities as agreed with supervisor Health and Safety
• Protect the health and safety of self and others, complying with all health and safety related policies, procedures and directions
• Complete required Fire and Emergency Training annually
• Complete required Workplace Bullying and Harassment as required
Quality and Safety
• Maintain clinical registration and any required indemnity cover (if applicable).
• Take full responsibility for all safety matters and safety performance within their work area.
• Ensure that safety is considered a core value of the work team and that safety is prioritised at a level that is equal to all other business imperatives.
• Ensure risk is managed in your work area through the use of policy, procedure, risk assessment and training.
• Sets and drives the expectation that all incidents are reported.
• Ensure that all incidents are investigated to root cause and that corrective and preventative actions are put in place to prevent recurrence by taking a lead role in the investigation.
• Maintain an up-to-date training register for your team members and ensures that all critical training is completed ahead of schedule
• Always work within approved scope of practice under supervision by more senior staff as appropriate
• Maintain skills and knowledge necessary to safely and skilfully undertake work
• Consult with peers and other experts and refer to other healthcare workers when appropriate and in a timely manner.
• Participate in clinical risk management, patient safety and continuous quality improvement activities as part of day-to-day work
• All practices are consistent with the National Safety and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) Standards, EQUiP National and relevant professional practice and ethical standards and guidelines.
• Protect the health and safety of self and others, complying with all health and safety-related policies, procedures and directions
• Ensure that good safety performance (individual and team) is recognised. They will also ensure that rule noncompliance and poor safety attitude are addressed (this may include encouragement, retraining, counselling or disciplinary action)
• Work collaboratively with the safety team to drive continuous performance in work area and across the organisation
• Ensure that each employee attends an area safety meeting at a frequency of no less than once a month. This safety meeting will:
• Communicate the area's performance (leading and lagging indicators),
• Communicate organisational safety matters,
• Discuss current / potential safety issues,
• Discuss learnings from safety alerts, incident investigations, safety audits etc. and,
• Explore area initiatives into improving safety performance and culture
Human Resources
• Acts as a preceptor for all staff, students and trainees
• Conducts annual performance appraisals and regular goal setting for all staff
• Comply with applicable Enterprise Bargaining Agreement provisions (if applicable).
• Recruitment, selection & retention of staff to clinical unit in accordance with hospital policies and procedures and organisational needs.
• Ensure that all new staff attend hospital orientation within the first 3 months of employment and receive comprehensive unit orientation within one week of commencement.
• Ensure the provision of a safe and supportive workplace for staff.
• Ensure annual performance appraisals, reviews and goal planning are completed for all unit staff reporting to the NUM.
• Provide regular, constructive feedback on achievement of team goals and individual development plans (both written & verbal).
• Facilitate succession planning for roles of NUM and ANUM including mentoring aspiring nurse leaders as identified.
• Ensure compliance with Human Resource policies including Equal
Employment Opportunity.
• Develop rosters in conjunction with the ANUMs to meet patient and budget requirements, and in accordance with team based nursing model, industrial and legislative requirements.
• Manage and reduce as far as possible unscheduled staff absences. Where levels of sick leave exceed KPI, investigation and appropriate action is instigated.
• Ensure annual leave liability does not exceed limits set out in hospital policy at any point in time for an employee in the Unit.
Professional Development
• Accountable for personal achievement of 100% competencies as per unit and organisational needs.
• Liaise closely with the allocated Education Consultant or Clinical Coach to implement and progress own training and development.
• Maintain all personal competencies and participate in those activities that contribute to the ongoing development of self, the profession, and team members.
• Promote and assist the achievement of all team members' compulsory annual competencies.
• Liaise closely with the allocated Education Consultant or Clinical Coach to implement and progress training and development of all team members
• Participate in relevant Professional Development including participation at relevant nursing forums, training and development.
• Support team members in attending training, education and competency programs
• Disseminates knowledge and provides learning opportunities to team members
General
• Perform duties of the position to best of their ability and to a standard acceptable to SVHA.
• Comply with all SVHA policies, procedures, by laws and directions.
• Treat others with respect and always behave professionally and in accordance with the SVHA Code of Conduct.
• Only access confidential information held by SVHA when this is necessary for business purposes, maintaining the confidentiality of that information once accessed.
• Participate in the annual SVHA performance review process.
• Display adaptability and flexibility to meet the changing operational needs of the business.
• Display a willingness to develop self and seek to improve performance.
• Complete other duties as requested.
• Current immunity status that complies with SVHA immunisation policy.
• Comply with applicable Enterprise Bargaining Agreement provisions (if applicable).
Safety Leadership
• Take full responsibility for all safety matters and safety performance within their work area.
• Ensure that safety is considered a core value of the work team and that safety is prioritised at a level that is equal to all other business imperatives.
• Ensure risk is managed in your work area through the use of policy, procedure, risk assessment and training.
• Sets and drives the expectation that all incidents are reported.
• Ensure that all incidents are investigated to root cause and that corrective and preventative actions are put in place to prevent recurrence by taking a lead role in the investigation.
• Maintain an up-to-date training register for your team members and ensures that all critical training is completed ahead of schedule.
• Ensure that each employee attends an area safety meeting at a frequency of no less than once a month. This safety meeting will:
• Communicate the area's performance (leading and lagging indicators),
• Communicate organisational safety matters,
• Discuss current / potential safety issues,
• Discuss learnings from safety alerts, incident investigations, safety audits etc. and,
• Explore area initiatives into improving safety performance and culture.
• Ensure that good safety performance (individual and team) is recognised. They will also ensure that rule noncompliance and poor safety attitude are addressed (this may include encouragement, retraining, counselling or disciplinary action).
• Work collaboratively with the safety team to drive continuous performance in work area and across the organisation.
QUALIFICATIONS
MUST HAVE EXPERIENCE & REQUIREMENTS
• Registered with AHPRA (Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency) as a Registered Nurse
• Post graduate qualifications Degree/Diploma) in the relevant clinical specialty
• National Criminal History Check.
• A valid working with children check.
MINIMUM EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS
• Ability to develop and maintain collaborative and effective relationships with all multidisciplinary team members
• Computer literacy and proficiency with MS Office suite, IMC, Delacy, Webpas(IBA) or similar patient management applications
• At least five years' experience in relevant clinical specialty
• Relevant expert clinical skills developed in acute care environment
• Ability to lead, coach and support clinical teams to optimise patient and organisational outcomes
• Ability to develop and maintain a budget and to interpret performance data for reporting purposes
• High-level interpersonal and communication skills (both written and oral)
• Well-developed planning and organisational skills
• Demonstrated ability to ensure the implementation clinical practice and care consistent with the mission and philosophy of the facility
• Ability to plan and coordinate patient care effectively, maintain patient advocacy and utilise patient management systems
• Ability to participate in and support education activities and to contribute to the development of self and other team members
• Have a strong working knowledge and understanding of relevant regulations and legislation
• Ability to lead effective risk management within the facility particularly in compliance with Work Health & Safety legislation
• Demonstrated application of contemporary infection control standards and practices
• Demonstrated ability lead quality improvement activities
IMMUNISATIONS Category A
SVHA has a duty of care under work health and safety legislation to eliminate and/or control the risk of transmission of vaccine preventable diseases (VPD) in healthcare settings. You therefore must comply with the SVHA Immunisation Policy, which, depending on the role you perform in the organisation will require you to undergo certain immunisations/vaccinations (e.g., Covid-19 and flu vaccinations).
Category B (non-clinical facing)
SVHA has a duty of care under work health and safety legislation to eliminate and/or control the risk of transmission of vaccine preventable diseases (VPD) in healthcare settings. You therefore must comply with the SVHA Immunisation Policy, which, depending on the role you perform in the organisation will require you to undergo certain immunisations/vaccinations (e.g., Covid-19 and flu vaccinations).
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS
• Frequent sitting (when completing computer-based / administrative tasks and attending meetings).
• Frequent bilateral upper limb use for keying tasks handling equipment and patients.
• Frequent unilateral upper limb use for mouse operation / phone use / hand written notes.
• Occasional lifting between ground and head height – up to 5kg (eg. linen, Imed machine, medical supplies, mobility aids).
• Occasional trunk rotation (eg. transferring patients, bed making).
• Occasional forward reaching (eg. transferring patients, bed making, accessing linen, accessing medication and dressings).
• Occasional gripping of objects (manual dexterity, pincer grip) when completing medications, dressing, personal care, patient notes and manoeuvring equipment.
• Occasional carrying of items (eg. passive knee mobilisers, crutches and walking frames) from storage area to the ward.
• Occasional trunk flexion greater than 15 degrees (eg. when changing dressings, administering medication at the bed side, making beds and completing personal care).
• Occasional pushing / pulling (eg. hoist, beds, observation machines, linen skip, dressing trolley and mobile shower chair).
• Rare crouching / squatting (eg. when assisting with lower limb cleaning or accessing items stored at ground level).
LEADERSHIP COMMITMENT
• We see and care deeply for the whole person- patient, resident, client, family, carer, and teammate. We are radically inclusive.
• We are kind in our thoughts, words, and actions.
• We act with courage, vulnerability, and authenticity.
• We champion equity for those most in need. We battle against inequity and harm to the community.
• We pursue "firsts"- we learn from outside and challenge what's inside to deliver our best.
• We lead together as One St Vincent's.
• We are extensively useful, by rolling up our sleeves
Closing Date:
30 August 2025 11:59pm
Reconciliation Action Plan:
At St Vincent's we acknowledge the importance of creating a work environment that is welcoming, safe, equitable and inclusive for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Employees. As part of our Commitment to Reconciliation and Closing the Gap in employment related outcomes, we encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples.
For further information, visit https ://www.svha.org.au/about-us/reconciliation or get in contact at indigenouscareers@svha.org.au
View Reconciliation Action Plan
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Founded by the Sisters of Charity more than 180 years ago, St Vincent's is a clinical, research and education leader delivering private hospital, public hospital and aged care services across NSW, VIC and QLD. Our founder, Mary Aikenhead's vision, commitment and inspiration lives on in us and the work we do.
From modest beginnings, St Vincent's Health Australia is today the nation's largest not-for-profit health and aged care provider, offering services in Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria, including public and private hospitals and aged care facilities.The St Vincent's family comprises 22,000 outstanding nurses, researchers, cooks, doctors, executives, administrators, cleaners, volunteers and more.
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