Nursing Unit Manager Intensive Care Unit

Overview

Nursing Unit Manager Intensive Care Unit – Far West Local Health District, Broken Hill

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What You'll Be Doing

The purpose of the Nursing Unit Manager is to manage, lead and organise the nursing and wider multi-disciplinary team to enable good patient flow process.

• Lead and co-ordinate the nursing and multi-disciplinary care team at the ward or unit level.
• Monitor and manage the business and management functions and processes of the ward or unit.
• As the leader of the unit, the NUM will demonstrate their capability through attitude, skills, behaviour, and attributes.
• Demonstrate broad nursing/midwifery experience and knowledge.
• Understanding and acceptance that patients are the central focus of service delivery.
• Demonstrate professional integrity; ethical conduct, accountability, advocacy, enabling others.
• Cultivation of collaborative relationships and effective teamwork.

What Is On Offer

• 5 weeks annual leave.
• Salary packaging (pay less tax), enjoy up to $9k for living expenses, $2.6k for meals and entertainment.
• Novated Leasing.
• Paid Allocated Day Off (ADO) Every Month.
• Fitness Passport and EAP to maintain your health and wellbeing.
• Isolation and Climate Allowance.
• Professional development with support through advanced education & training to help you develop your career.
• A comfortable country lifestyle that supports balance & wellbeing.

About The Far West LHD

The Far West Local Health District is one of 15 LHDs under NSW Health, providing high quality public health services to the communities in far west NSW. Our vision is to create excellence in rural and remote healthcare. We employ well over 800 clinicians and support staff across our 9 health facilities in Broken Hill, Balranald, Dareton, Ivanhoe, Menindee, Tibooburra, Wentworth, White Cliffs and Wilcannia. We are committed to joining our friendly team for a meaningful and rewarding career in rural and remote healthcare.

Qualifications & Selection Criteria

• Current nursing/midwifery registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA).
• Demonstrated effective interpersonal skills, excellent written, verbal communication skills and ability to negotiate resolutions and manage conflict.
• Proven ability to create and maintain a positive workplace culture and articulate and achieve a vision for nursing services in the critical care environment.
• Demonstrated focus on service excellence through the ability to read and act on issues quickly, decisively and effectively. Demonstrated ability to apply and share professional expertise to enhance patient/client care. Demonstrated ability to guide others to analyse problems and apply a range of solutions.
• Tertiary qualifications in nursing and/or health management with a minimum of three years post graduate experience.
• Demonstrated ability to ensure the human, physical and financial resources of the unit are managed to deliver safe and efficient health care within available resources.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively lead, coach, mentor, encourage and guide others to enable them to reach their full potential and effectively adapt to ongoing change within a multidisciplinary group with broad clinical experience and knowledge.
• Demonstrated computer literacy and ability to use a variety of NSW Health computer applications (e.g. word processing, excel and databases).

How To Apply

To be considered for this position, please ensure you address the selection criteria in the application as thoroughly as possible by selecting APPLY NOW below.

• Current nursing/midwifery registration with AHPRA.
• Demonstrated effective interpersonal skills, communication and conflict resolution abilities.
• Proven ability to create a positive workplace culture and articulate a vision for nursing services in the critical care environment.
• Ability to read and act on issues quickly and decisively; apply professional expertise to enhance patient care.
• Tertiary qualifications in nursing and/or health management with at least three years post graduate experience.
• Ability to manage human, physical and financial resources to deliver safe care within available resources.
• Ability to lead, coach, mentor and guide others in a multidisciplinary setting.
• Computer literacy with NSW Health applications.

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Application Close

Applications Close: 29th September 2025

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