Unit Manager 4south

Location: Melbourne | Northern Metropolitan

Job type: Not provided

Organisation: The Royal Women's Hospital

**Salary**: Salary not specified

Occupation: Nursing

Reference: 25319
- **Full time, ongoing role**:

- ** Parkville location with flexible working and multiple public transport options**:

- ** $126,074 (pro-rata for part time) + salary packaging + super + 5 weeks annual leave**

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.

**About Maternity Services**

The Women’s at Parkville maternity model of care offers four care pathways for women provided by obstetricians, registrars, junior doctors, midwives and allied health. The pathways include:

- Shared Maternity Care with affiliated GP/midwives
- Caseload: One-to-one midwifery
- Team Maternity - multidisciplinary care
- Maternal Fetal Medicine (MFM) - comprising MFM doctors with midwifery support and boutique clinics: WADS, PTL, RMC, FMU, Diab, PMC, MPU

The Women’s Maternity Services department consists of three Team Maternity teams: our Pregnancy Day Care, Pregnancy Clinics, Caseload and Breastfeeding Services.

**About the role**

As a Midwifery Unit Manager you will lead a team and specialised clinical area, providing proactive, supportive and visible leadership. You’ll also be responsible for operational management, ensuring the effective management of budgets and resources, and achievement of KPI’s.

In this role you won’t carry a caseload, but you’ll provide clinical leadership and ensure that your team excels in patient care, multidisciplinary collaboration, efficiency, research, and education.

A regular day will see you:

- Proactively lead, manage and support direct reports
- Ensure staffing levels and skill mix are maintained as required legislatively and industrially
- Coordinate all internal HR processes including recruitment and retention, leave management, orientation of new staff, performance feedback, and access to professional training and development opportunities
- Ensure that all staff are supported to work professionally, safely and effectively, in accordance with evidence-based guidelines, and relevant professional standards

**About you**

You will be someone with excellent communication and interpersonal skills, including the ability to build and maintain strong, collaborative working relationships with a diverse range of stakeholders.

You’ll bring with you:

- Recent clinical management/leadership experience
- AHPRA Division 1 registration with endorsement as a midwife
- Demonstrated experience in budget management and successful achievement of budgetary targets
- Demonstrated understanding of clinical governance

**Our benefits**

At the Women’s you will enjoy a culture that is collaborative, supportive and passionate about learning. We have a strong sense of purpose, and engage in meaningful work every day. We offer our people a range of rewarding benefits, including:

- Up to $11,660 in salary packaging benefits, for living expenses, meals and holiday accommodation
- A suite of wellness initiatives designed to support you, including discounted financial, lifestyle and health options, and a comprehensive wellbeing program
- Public transport options at our doorstep and end of journey facilities for cyclists
- Onsite childcare centre and breastfeeding rooms
- Mentoring, learning and career development opportunities
- Five weeks annual leave, monthly ADO’s and purchased leave options
- Flexible, hybrid working arrangements

**Inclusion and belonging**

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