Associate Unit Manager

Location: Melbourne | Northern Metropolitan

Job type: Not provided

Organisation: Royal Women's Hospital

**Salary**: Salary not specified

Occupation: Nursing

Reference: 24210

**Associate Unit Manager - Maternity Services**

**Fixed Term Position**
**12 months - 24 hours per week**

The Royal Women’s Hospital is Australia’s first and largest specialist hospital dedicated to improving the health and wellbeing of newborns and women of all ages. To join the Women’s is to be instrumental in forging progress towards health equity for women from ground-breaking research through to the bedside delivery of multi-disciplinary clinical care.

Creating exceptional experiences is at the heart of everything we do for our patients, their families, and our people across our specialised services within maternity, neonatal and women’s health.

**Your contribution**

The Associate Unit Manager (AUM) assumes the responsibilities and authority of the Maternity Unit Manager in their absence and as such, supports the Team Leader to provide day to day leadership and management of the team ensuring a positive and professional working environment. The Associate Unit Manager (AUM) is a role model in delivering high quality care to women and their families within a multidisciplinary team environment and forms part of the Midwifery Management Team.

In collaboration, with the Management Team, the AUM will ensure that services provided by the Team are:

- Focused to respect the rights, needs and expectations of the childbearing woman.
- Integrated and consistent.
- Evidence-based.
- Supportive of a learning environment.
- High quality care in accordance with the Women’s Clinical Practice Guidelines, scope of practice and legislative requirements.

**About you**

To be successful within this role you will need to have:

- Demonstrated ability to plan, prioritise and time manage in a challenging operational environment
- Demonstrated ability to coordinate junior and senior midwives
- Relevant experience working within a medical team and being in charge
- Relevant clinical experience with commitment to evidence based outcome
- Experience in working effectively and collaboratively within a multi-disciplinary team

**Our offering**

When you join the Women’s you unite with talented people who share your purpose and unwavering determination to advance health outcomes for all women. You will find a workplace that is collaborative, progressive and passionate about learning and working together in multi-disciplinary teams to ensure you find the**_ exceptional _**in your everyday.

We are proudly Breastfeeding Association accredited. The Women’s is committed to gender equity principles and our people have an awareness of and sensitive approach to violence against women/family violence matters.

**Ready to make the move?**

**COVID-19 Vaccination Requirement***

Please be aware that in line with the Health Minister's Covid-19 Mandatory Vaccination Order, all workers at the Women's regardless of role, will be required to be fully vaccinated (3 doses) for COVID-19 or hold an acceptable medical exemption.

**Influenza Vaccination Requirement**

In line with the Health Services Amendment (Mandatory Vaccination of Healthcare Workers) Act 2020, some health care workers are now required to have their flu vaccination to work in health care. Evidence of vaccination is required.

As this role fits into category A or B of the departments risk ratings, applicants will be required to have been vaccinated against influenza. Evidence of vaccination is required.

All applicants will be required to provide acceptable evidence of their vaccination status.