Nurse Coordinator

**Your opportunity**

You might think you already know a lot about Bupa. You’ll know we provide health insurance and aged care services across Australia and you’ve probably also seen our dental and optical clinics in your local shopping centres. But what you might not realise is that we also deliver health services to 85,000 Defence Force members and their families across more than 50 locations in Australia.

Located just north of Newcastle, the RAAF Base Williamtown is the Air Force's main fighter pilot training base. Over 3000 people work on the base (both civilians and military).

The Williamtown Health Centre supports all defence members and their families on base, providing a range of services including Immunisations, Specialist Appointments, Outpatients, Physiotherapy, Medical Imaging, Psychology, Pharmaceutical Services and Audiometry. We play a key role in ensuring the overall health and wellbeing of all our defence members on base.

**About the Role**

**Fulltime Permanent Position**

As a Nurse Manager (internally called a Nurse Coordinator) with Bupa ADF Health Services; the role will see you providing leadership and support to your team at Wiliamtown Health Centre and maintaining Health Centre operations daily.

This is a fantastic opportunity for a NUM or nurse with leadership skills to stretch into a Nursing Coordinator role, growing your skillset and developing your expertise within the Defence sector.

Taking the role of a Nurse Coordinator you will:

- Support operational capability by preparing members for global deployment and exercises
- Take a hands-on approach to integrating with your team when the tempo requires it and to enable assessment of staff capability and process integrity
- Accept responsibility for complex situations which may encompass clinical, managerial, and educational contexts e.g. assistance with emergency medical responses, clinical review, and complaint resolution
- Coordinate vaccination parades
- Coordinate sick parade, triage of members within a Primary Health Care Team model
- Investigate clinical incidents to include review and corrective action feedback to staff
- Review and update of department SOPs
- Coordinate roster, staffing levels and supervision of the nursing and Defence Force staff, to enable the provision of high standard of health care

**About you**

To thrive in this role, you will be an inherently collaborative worker who enjoys working with people of all backgrounds to achieve common goals. You’ll be able to pivot to different workplace cultures and clinical environments easily, with an inherent focus on problem-solving and continuous improvement.

You will also require:

- At least 5 years’ experience as a Div 1 RN
- Prior experience as a NUM/coordinator - minimum 1 year
- Post Graduate Qualifications in Nursing or Health Management or working toward same with approval to undertake with an RTO
- Current Defence Health Services experience (desirable)
- Base Line Security Clearence (desirable)

**Be at the heart of it with Bupa**

This isn’t your average nurse leadership role. This new role offers an incredible opportunity to not only extend you clinical and leadership skillset, but also make a real impact on our services to help shape the health outcomes of the men and women serving in Australian Defence Forces.

**We also offer**:

- Tangible employee benefits, performance incentives and discounts on Bupa products
- A supportive team where your contribution is truly valued
- Opportunity to build your career with a Global leader in healthcare

A career at Bupa is more than just a job. It's an opportunity to make a real difference in the lives of our customers and communities. Our purpose, helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives, is what inspires us. It's a promise to our customers to change lives for the better. Our people are at the heart of this. It's their passion, ideas and commitment that will shape a brighter future for both Bupa and our customers.

Bupa is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to ensuring equality in recruitment, development, retention and promotion of staff and that no-one is disadvantaged based on their gender, cultural background, disability, sexual orientation or identity, or Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander heritage. We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply.