Registered Nurse - Perioperative

• Parkville location
• Full-time position
• Take your Nursing career to the next level at Melbourne Private Hospital

Melbourne Private Hospital is seeking experienced Perioperative Registered Nurse's to join our Perioperative Team on a full time basis. You will play a key role within a supportive team in ensuring high levels of patientcare is provided.

About us:

Melbourne Private Hospital is a 124 bed private hospital co-located with the Royal Melbourne Hospital in the heart of Parkville, 1.7km from Melbourne CBD. Our hospital offers highly specialised services including extensive neurosurgery, neurology, advanced coronary care, cardiothoracic, orthopaedic and general surgery. These services are supported by a 10-bed intensive care unit, 4-bed acute coronary care unit and 6-bed neurosurgical high dependency unit.

As a Perioperative Registered Nurse, your responsibilities will include:

• Deliver safe, researched-based standards of nursing care.
• Supervise, direct and guide nursing team members; Enrolled Nurses (ENs) and Assistants in Nursing (AINs) to deliver patient care.
• Deliver education and support to individuals/patients for the management of their health recovery, rehabilitation, or end of life needs.
• Led successful quality improvement and safety management project/s to deliver desired outcomes.
• Work collaboratively with the wider healthcare team to support patient care needs.
• Act as a role model for Safe Practice

Essential Criteria:

• Authority to Work in Australia
• Working with Children check
• Bachelor of Science (Nursing) or equivalent
• Minimum of 2 years Perioperative Nursing experience
• Current Registration (no restriction) with AHPRA
• Post Graduate Certificate or working towards in Perioperative Nursing (Desirable)
• Compliance with ACQSHC National standards
• Clinical expertise and commitment to high quality patient care and continuous improvement
• Self-motivated and proven ability to work as part of a high functioning team.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Highly developed interpersonal skills, proactive, motivated and customer focused.

Why Healthscope?

We care about your career at Healthscope.

No matter where you go within our community of care, you'll be supported by great team leaders, be part of strong, innovative teams who always strive for better and have the opportunity to flourish and grow.

Our people are at the heart of our organisation - no matter the role, every day our people make a difference to the lives of our patients and their families. We work together to create positive, memorable experiences, alongside our quality care, in every moment of every day.

Joining us opens the door to endless opportunities. We encourage the pursuit of continuous professional development, specialisation and education, and support our people to grow and come and be the difference in our patient's lives.

If you are successful in this role, you will receive a salary based on your years of relevant registered nursing experience against the current Healthscope and VIC/ANMF - VIC nurses and Midwives' - Enterprise agreement 2016 - 2020, a salary ranging from $35.34 to $47.26 per hour.

Applications close: 16th May 2024

To Apply: Please click on the 'Apply' button to be taken to our online application form. For any questions, please reach out to [email protected]

More Information:

Our commitment to quality and safety for our patients, staff, and visitors is our highest priority. Applicants will be required to provide a current National Police check, WWCC (where applicable) and Evidence of right to work in Australia prior to appointment. Staff in patient contact roles will be required to provide proof of immunity to specified infectious diseases as a Category A Healthcare worker.