Clinical Support Names

Location: Melbourne | Southern Metropolitan

Job type: Full time, Part time

Organisation: Monash Health

**Salary**: Salary not specified

Occupation: Nursing

Reference: 56074

**Australia’s first Heart Hospital is opening soon Join us at Australia’s only dedicated, purpose-built heart hospital.**

**Our journey**

The **Victorian Heart Hospital** will be Australia’s first dedicated heart hospital and is nearing its final stages of construction. It will include a full range of ambulatory and inpatient cardiac care, including cardiac theatres, cardiac catheterisation laboratories, emergency, intensive care, and ambulatory services such as cardiac CT, echocardiography and specialist consultation. It will also feature a unique, patient centred model of care. The **Victorian Heart Hospital** will also play a key role in advancing research and teaching and will be home to the Victorian Heart Institute, a brand new, health and medical research organisation at Monash University.

**Monash Health - Nursing and Midwifery Education and Strategy (NaMES)**

**NaMES **supports the organisation in achieving their vision and values by providing education and training to advance clinical practice and skill sets to ensure Monash health has a contemporary and flexible highly skilled workforce.

**Recruiting Now - Clinical Support Nurses Opportunities, Victorian Heart Hospital**

The **Clinical Support Nurse** **(CSN) **is a clinical supervision role providing clinical support and guidance to Nurses across Monash Health. This classification is supernumerary (does not carry a clinical case load). The **CSN** ensures that **Monash Health** Nurses practice safe, effective, person-centred contemporary care.

As part of our growth **NaMES** is excited to offer the following historic **Clinical Support Nurse **roles located at the heart hospital across the following cardiac areas:

- ** Acute Cardiac Care Unit (.6 - 1.2 eft) - **our acute cardiovascular service will provide a universal model of patient care across the entire length of stay (part-time
- ** Ambulatory (.6 - 1.2 eft) - **patients will experience an efficient, streamlined and integrated approach to care from our expert, multidisciplinary team****:

- **Emergency** **(1 eft)** - first dedicated cardiac emergency service in Australia, including a 22-bed capacity
- ** Undergraduate** **(2 eft)** - supports nursing students within various undergraduate year levels

As the **Clinical Support Nurse** located at the **Victorian Heart Hospital**, you’ll be welcomed into a positive and supportive environment, passionate about delivering cardiac care to a diverse and growing local community. This is truly an enviable and historic career opportunity to join Australia's first heart facility with access to education support within a tertiary hospital. You’ll be part of a passionate **NaMES** team committed to delivering high quality clinical support and education in a caring learning environment where nurses are able to consolidate their clinical skills within a tertiary setting.

You’ll also enjoy working in brand new facilities in a dedicated heart hospital that will provide:

- improved facilities in a sustainable design, filled with colour, natural light and space
- dedicated leadership team fostering high performing talent and career progression within a tertiary hospital
- cutting edge state of the art technology and innovative design to facilitate world-leading research

**A Day in the Life**:
We guarantee that no two days will be the same

In this important role, you will provide clinical supervision, support, and guidance to nurses, ensuring practice is safe, effective, person-centred contemporary care by;
- promoting evidence-based nursing care in a range of settings
- supporting formal education programs
- supporting continuing professional development
- reporting goals, actions and outcomes periodically as required

**What You Bring**:
Working closely with Undergraduates, Clinical Nurse Educators, Clinical Education Coordinators, Nurse Managers, NaMES, Victorian Heart Hospital workforce, and Monash Universityyou will bring the following demonstrated skills, experience and knowledge:

- Proven people and communication skills including relationship building, cooperation, conflict resolution, influencing others and facilitating open discussions
- Ability to work independently as well as consulting and collaborating with others to deliver outcomes
- An awareness of own values and beliefs surrounding healthcare and the ability to identify and respect an alternative view
- Be cognisant of limitations in own knowledge and seek appropriate resolution
- Present oneself in a professional and respectful manner
- Excellent organisational and time management skills
- Proficient computer skills

**On a personal level, you will demonstrate**:

- agility and ability to work as a change agent
- promotion and expertise in best practice standards
- ability to work collabor