Nurse Unit Manager

Your life’s best work!
We have a full-time, permanent opportunity for a Nurse Unit Manager to join our Wesley – Auchenflower and Chermside clinics located in Brisbane.

As the Nurse Unit Manager, you are responsible for managing the nursing team at your site to meet the needs of GenesisCare’ s strategy, vision, and values. This is achieved by providing advanced nursing knowledge and skills, leadership, and effective communication to ensure a positive engaged workforce and appropriate resource management to ensure all aspects of legislation are addressed.

The Nurse Unit Manager will have an excellent understanding of current trends, research and policies in oncology nursing. The nurse unit manager will work with the centre leader, quality manager and Director of Nursing to ensure evidence based, best practice guidelines are applied.

More specifically, you will:

• Lead the nursing staff as an exemplary role model for the profession of nursing, maintaining a high level of communication.
• Performance development and performance management, as required.
• Annual performance development reviews for nursing team
• Actively support and champion GenesisCare initiatives to improve culture, quality, efficiency and effectiveness, taking on a leadership role within projects where required.
• Provide support to the Director of Nursing with the ability to cover during leave periods.
• Work within a multidisciplinary onsite team including the Centre Leader, Doctors, Physicists, Radiation Therapists, Nursing and Administrative/clerical staff to implement efficient & effective Centre workflow. Evaluate and implement continuous improvement initiatives.
• Play a key role in performing, managing, implementing and building a quality patient experience.

What you will need:

• Current Registration as a Nurse with AHPRA.
• Clinical experience as a nurse – 3 years nursing with at least 1 year oncology preferred.
• Demonstrated clinical knowledge and the ability to apply relevant legislation, guidelines and standards.
• Exemplary interpersonal and communication skills, with an ability to demonstrate empathy for patients and their carer’s.
• Well-developed analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Commitment to the application of quality improvement and best practice principles, including the NSQHS.
• Strong commitment to quality patient care
• Experience in leading a team and managing people effectively to achieve goals.

Benefits of joining our team:

• Working with a small nursing team providing the best patient experience possible.
• No night shifts or late shifts.
• Time to deliver quality nursing care to all our patients.
• Opportunity to develop interpersonal relationships with patients as you see them regularly.
• Internal and external training and development opportunities.
• Uniform provided following probationary period.
• Close knit internal community.
• Fast paced, high performing & agile working culture with lots of change due to our rapid growth
• All employees and their family members have access to free confidential support that is completely external to GenesisCare including financial, nutritional and wellbeing coaching, legal advice & counselling.
• A variety of staff wellness benefits e.g. discounted gym membership

About GenesisCare
We are 1,300+ highly trained healthcare professionals and support staff in Australia designing innovative treatments and care for people with cancer. Our dedicated teams treat more than 30,000 patients annually.

People centricity is at the heart of what we do whether that person is a patient, a referring doctor, a partner or someone in our team. We aim to build culture of care that is patient focused, and performance driven. Our people promise is "do your life's best work, by always growing, having a profound human impact and making great things happen together." If you'd like to make a difference, join us at GenesisCare.

Applications Close: COB Wednesday 8th May 2024