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Employment Type : Permanent Full Time
Position Classification : Registered Nurse
Remuneration : -
Hours Per Week : 38
Application Close : Sunday, 19 October 2025
Are you seeking a new opportunity in critical care?
Prince of Wales Hospital is currently recruiting Registered Nurses to join our Cardiothoracic Intensive Care Unit. We are committed to person-centred practice, delivering safe, high-quality, and compassionate care in a supportive and positive work environment.
Join a skilled team focused on enhancing the human experience — for patients, families, and staff.
Welcome to Prince of Wales Hospital.
Benefits
- A workplace culture with a foundation that promotes person centred care approaches and staff wellbeing
- Orientation and supported transition into your recent 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! Up to $9K for living expenses and $2.6K meal & entertainment & Novated Leasing
- 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
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.
The Nursing and Midwifery – Our Strategy for Transforming Person- Centred Cultures guides our profession in the development of effective person-centred practice and healthful cultures within SESLHD. We advocate for shared decision-making, collaborative relationships, compassionate and person-centred leadership, and supporting innovative practices.
The nursing vision for Prince of Wales Hospital is ‘Transforming Person-Centred Care Together’. This approach to all nursing practices ensures we collaborate together on all aspects of healthcare, inclusive of staff, placing the person at the centre of shared decision making underpinned by respect, mutual understanding and facilitated choice.
As a Registered Nurse in SESLHD, you will be an integral part of the interdisciplinary team in the provision of person-centred care; and leading, supporting and supervising other nurses and care roles. You will strive to ensure that the people who receive healthcare experience exceptional care that is person-centred, safe, high quality and compassionate.
As a Registered Nurse in SESLHD you will be recognised as a healthcare professional employing your clinical skills and critical thinking in delivering high quality patient care.
You will be part of a team that strives to support each other to reach our potential, focus on what matters most and continue to be innovative in approaches to practice.
As a Registered Nurse in Prince of Wales Hospital, you will be encouraged to share your clinical expertise and further develop your practice with the professional development opportunities available.
Key Functions
- Think critically and analyse nursing practice
- Engage in therapeutic and professional relationships
- Maintain the capability for practice
- Comprehensively conduct nursing assessments
- Develop a plan for nursing practice
- Provide safe, appropriate and responsive quality nursing practice
- Evaluate outcomes to inform nursing practice
Where You'll be Working
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. POWH offers an outpatient service and rural outreach service and provides more than 900,000 occasions of non-admitted patient care each year, including innovative virtual models of care.
Selection Criteria
- Registered with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) as a Registered Nurse/ Midwife.
- Demonstrated recent clinical experience as a Registered Nurse that applies to a Cardiothoraci ICU clinical setting
- Demonstrated high level written and verbal communication skills, interpersonal skills and be able to identify key messages, issues and concerns when communicating with others.
- Ability to work as part of an interdisciplinary team and apply professional and ethical boundaries when dealing with complex situations.
- Current computer skills and proven ability to use health information systems.
- Demonstrated ability to advocate for and implement person-centred practice.
- Demonstrated application of evidence-based practice and critical thinking to patient care.
- Demonstrated ability to effectively prioritise and organise own workload.
Reasonable Adjustments
NSW Health recognises everyone is unique, and that you may require some adjustments to ensure you have the best opportunity to apply. If we can make some adjustments to the NSW Health recruitment/interview process, then please email and let us know.
Information For Applicants
- An eligibility list may be created for future vacancies
- Employment of a temporary visa holder may only occur if no suitable permanent resident or citizen of Australia has been identified for this position following suitable labour market testing.
- Applicants will be assessed against the essential requirements and selection criteria contained within the position description
- Recommended applicants will be reviewed for compliance with NSW Health policy directive Occupational Assessment, Screening and Vaccination against Specific Diseases for all positions prior to offer
- We do have an Aboriginal Workforce Team that can also provide support ( ) and for additional information please visit our Stepping Up Website
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📌 Registered Nurse - Cardiothoracic ICU
🏢 South Eastern Sydney Local Health District (SESLHD)
📍 Melbourne