Employment Type: Temporary Full Time until 3 July 2026
Position Classification: Nurse Unit Manager Level 2
Remuneration: $133,112.75 - $133,112.75 per annum plus superannuation
Hours Per Week: 38
Ready to Lead the Future of Nursing? Are you inspired to be a nursing leader? Motivated to drive positive change in healthcare? Prince of Wales Hospital is seeking passionate and experienced professionals to step into the role of Nurse Unit Manager.
This is a fantastic opportunity to lead dynamic teams, shape clinical practice, and make a lasting impact on patient care and staff development in a supportive and collaborative environment.
The Role
The vision for South Eastern Sydney Local Health District (SESLHD) is ‘exceptional care, healthier lives’. SESLHD is committed to enabling our community to be healthy and well, and to providing the best possible compassionate care when people need it.
All staff are expected to act as an appropriate and effective role model and promote culture and supporting practices that reflect the NSW Health CORE values of Collaboration, Openness, Respect and Empowerment through demonstrated behaviours and interactions with patients, clients and employees.
The Nursing/Midwifery Unit Manager is the registered nurse/Midwife in charge of a ward/unit or group of wards/units or a service (e.g. Child and Family Health) within SESLHD.
The Nurse Unit Manager (NUM) holds responsibility for the leadership and management of a designated pod of staff within the Randwick Campus Operating Suite. This includes oversight of clinical specialties and the coordination of equipment for both adult and paediatric patients within the pod, to ensure the effective and efficient delivery of surgical services.
The purpose of the Nursing/Midwifery Unit Manager Randwick Campus Operating Suite (RCOS) is to:
- lead, direct and co-ordinate patient or client care;
- ensure the practice of nursing is safe and efficient, maintaining standards of care through continual quality improvement initiatives.
- lead and co-ordinate the nursing and multi-disciplinary care team at the ward or unit level, and monitor and manage the business and management functions and processes of RCOS
- Change Management
As the leader of the unit, the NUM will demonstrate her/his capability through attitude, skills, behaviour and attributes, namely:
- broad nursing/midwifery experience and knowledge;
- understanding and acceptance that patients are the central focus of service delivery;
- professional integrity;
- ethical conduct;
- accountability;
- advocacy
- enabling others
- cultivation of collaborative relationships and effective team work
- commitment to advancing the profession of nursing/midwifery and care provision
Where you'll be working
Prince of Wales Hospital and Community Health Service is a Level 6 Tertiary Referral Hospital with an inpatient bed base of 370. Each year we care for more than 70,000 patients in our Emergency Department and have around 50,000 admissions to the inpatient units.
Benefits
- A workplace culture with a foundation that promotes person centred care approaches and staff wellbeing
- Orientation and supported transition into your new role
- Targeted clinical stream education programs affiliated with university partners
- Development pathways that are aimed at career progression
- Up to 12 allocated days off each year (for full-time employees) in addition to annual leave
- Salary Packaging options that reduce your taxable income and increase your take-home pay!
- Corporate health and fitness program, discounted gym memberships with a Fitness Passport
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for employees and family members
- Discounted Private Health Insurance
- Established partnerships with Universities that promote cutting edge research in well being, education and teaching.
- Opportunity to apply for Continuing Education allowance based on tertiary qualifications attained where applicable
- Opportunity to obtain Clinical Nurse Specialist status where relevant
Selection Criteria
- Current registration as a Registered Nurse/Midwife with the Nursing & Midwifery Board of Australia and current NSW Current drivers licence (or a willingness to travel in accordance with the demands of the position) (if required by service).
- Relevant management tertiary qualification or equivalent work experience, or a combination of study and work experience with a demonstrated commitment to professional development
- A demonstrated knowledge and experience in the management and delivery of health care services
- Proven ability in innovative clinical service delivery, harm minimisation and practice development
- Effective interpersonal and communication skills that demonstrate the ability to engage, enable and manage teams
- Proven ability to create and maintain a positive workplace culture and articulate and achieve a vision for nursing services.
- Recent clinical experience in Perioperative Services
Our CORE Values are Collaboration, Openness, Respect and Empowerment and have been created by employees for employees and help define how we work and to inspire positive interactions in the workplace.
We embrace diversity as our strength and are committed to maintaining an inclusive and team-oriented work environment. Our workplaces are welcoming and safe for all our employees, irrespective of their unique characteristic including age, ethnicity, cultural or spiritual background, gender identity, disability, education and social-economic status.
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📌 Nursing Unit Manager - Level 2
🏢 South Eastern Sydney Local Health District (SESLHD)
📍 Melbourne