Clinical Operations Manager, Nephrology

Location: Melbourne | Eastern Metropolitan

Job type: Full time

Organisation: Monash Health

**Salary**: Salary not specified

Occupation: Nursing

Reference: 56158

Monash Health is expanding its Nephrology Service. As a result, we are now looking for a passionate, experienced leader to join us in a newly created operational leadership role. The role will be based at Monash Medical Centre Clayton and will be appointed on a full time, permanent basis.

**About the Role**

The Clinical Operations Manager Nephrology will develop and maintain a helicopter understanding of Nephrology and a depth of insight into the relationships, interdependencies, synergies and dynamics across care pathways for people with kidney disease.

If appointed, you’ll lead a team of nine nursing professionals and will be ultimately responsible for managing and maintaining oversight of the day-to-day Dialysis operations across a number of Monash Health sites as well as other functional work groups and specialist service roles of the Department of Nephrology,

As a senior member of the Nephrology Leadership Team, you’ll support the strategic direction, budget management, business activities and workforce planning for the Nephrology Service and will assist with the design, implementation and evaluation of innovative and best practice models of care.

**Nephrology Services at Monash Health**

Monash Health is the quaternary provider of Nephrology Services in the southeast corridor of metropolitan Melbourne and regional Victoria. Our services include chronic kidney disease prevention and management, kidney and kidney-pancreas transplantation, a full suite of extracorporeal and peritoneal dialysis kidney replacement therapies, supportive care and comprehensive Nephrology research, education and training programs.

Monash Health provides Victoria’s largest dialysis service under an expanding hub and spoke model with the hub service located at Monash Health Clayton Campus. Our multidisciplinary teams provide holistic services that are designed and located to support a range of patient choices in a range of locations including inpatient, home and satellite dialysis.

Under the Department of Health Vic Renal Capability Framework 2019, Monash Health is a level 6 Hub provider with governance and support system responsibilities for its metropolitan, regional and rural dialysis partners.

**About You**

You’re a seasoned leader who loves a challenge. You’ll seek to appreciate and build on our leadership team strengths and support their development alongside your own. Leading by example, you thrive working in a dynamic, fast paced environment and are truly passionate about delivering a high standard of patient-centred and evidence-based nursing to every patient. You epitomise the Monash Health values and will advocate our Strategic Guiding Principles

**What You Need**:

- Current AHPRA Nursing Division 1 registration
- Significant recent experience in Renal Nursing as well as proven experience effectively engaging, leading and developing high performing teams in a relevant health setting
- An understanding of the clinical and service wide complexities in the delivery of renal services
- Knowledge of the state-wide model of renal service delivery across Victoria.
- Quality improvement, project management and change management experience and success within health
- Well-developed written and verbal communication and negotiation skills

**Looking after our people.**

Reflecting our commitment to a safe workplace, we strive to ensure that all our people:

- work in accordance with the relevant Occupational Health and Safety, Infection Prevention and Respiratory Protection Program procedures
- work within their scope of practice
- maintain currently of practice by completing all mandatory and competence assessment training

**Monash Health is a great place to work**

Our employees enjoy a range of benefits including:

- salary packaging options that increase your take-home pay
- a comprehensive Health and Wellbeing program
- free flu vaccinations
- private health insurance at discounted rates
- health imaging services
- + more

Monash Health is the largest public health service in Victoria, employing more than 22,000 people who work across 40 locations delivering healthcare services through our five hospitals and our extensive network of rehabilitation, aged care, community health and mental health facilities

We recognise the value of equal employment opportunity and are committed to patient safety and promoting fairness, equity and diversity in the workplace.

At Monash Health we are relentless in our pursuit of excellence and work to our six guiding principles and ICare values.

**How to Apply**

**_ Please note, selection activity may commence prior to the closing date._**

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