About Us

Western Health manages three acute public hospitals: Footscray, Sunshine and Williamstown Hospital. It also operates the Sunbury Day Hospital, Transition Care at Hazeldean and a range of community based services. We care for a culturally diverse population of more than 1 million people. We have 7,000 employees who are driven by our values of ‘Compassion, Accountability, Respect, Excellence and Safety’ (CARES).

Our continued growth has seen the addition of a new purpose built, multi-storey Joan Kirner Women's and Children's at Sunshine Hospital.

About the Role

The Nurse Unit Manager is a position that provides robust clinical leadership and management expertise. They are at the forefront of providing care that is underpinned by right, safe, coordinated and high quality nursing patient care across the multidisciplinary environment of the Paediatric Unit.

Women’s and Children’s Services at Sunshine Hospital provides quality health care within a diverse community across the Western Suburbs of Melbourne. Our Paediatric Unit caters for children from birth to 18 years of age. The busy 20 bed unit, with over 4600 admissions per year, provides both medical and surgical care to our Paediatric cohort of patients. Our Maternity service has a diverse birthing population with over 5,500 births per year and is still growing!

We are seeking an experienced Nurse Unit Manager with outstanding clinical abilities and experience in management to continue to lead and develop our Children's Ward. This is an opportunity to be a part of a team and share your skills and knowledge in a family focused, progressive and innovative Paediatric Service.  Join the team and contribute to the positive change to facilitate the growth and demand and ensure Best Care to all our patients and their families.

Skills & Experience & Essential Criteria

• Successful completion of a Bachelor of Nursing qualification or equivalent
• Registration as a Registered Nurse/Midwife in Australia
• Completion of Post graduate studies in Paediatric Care or equivilent
• Effective organisational skills, with respect to time management and delegation
• Well-developed written and verbal communication skills
• Demonstrated ability to practice collaboratively as part of a multi-disciplinary health care team
• Skills and experience to manage Paediatric Unit 
• A commitment to high quality, safe and person centred patient care

Desirable

• Successful completion of Graduate Certificate in Health Care Management or equivalent or working towards

Benefits

We offer a wide range of benefits such as:

• Work-life balance
• Professional development and career advancement opportunities
• Salary packaging including novated vehicle leasing
• Onsite fitness clubs
• Culturally safe and respectful environment
• Access to an Employee Assistance Program

Culture

At Western Health, we value our employees and provide them the opportunity to grow and develop.  Our teams are friendly and supportive, ensuring we deliver a safe, person-centred and connected patient experience. Western Health is an equal opportunity employer committed to attracting and retaining diversity in our workforce. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

Western Health is committed to providing a safe environment for the children and young people who are involved in our services, sites and operations. We follow and abide by all legislative requirements to keep children and young people safe.

All appointments are made subject to a satisfactory Police Record Check, an Immunisation status clearance and (if applicable) a Working With Children’s Check.

Western Health do not accept unsolicited resumes/applications from Recruitment Agencies.