Associate Nurse Unit Manager

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Associate Nurse Unit Manager - Ward 3A (Medical Oncology Inpatient Unit)
Ongoing, Part-Time Roles & Fixed Term Roles available.

The role of the Associate Nurse Unit Manger is to support the Nurse Unit Manager (NUM) and act in their role when required. This is a position of clinical leadership and accountability that aligns with Peter Mac's values. This includes management of the unit through the coordination of nursing activities and related services for the provision of quality patient focussed care in conjunction with other members of the leadership team. To translate the objectives policies, and procedures of PMCC into effective care for our patients. To ensure/apply evidence based best practice standards of oncology nursing practice.

Remuneration as per Nurses and Midwives (Victorian Public Sector) (Single Interest Employers) Enterprise Agreement – ANUM Year 1 (YW11) $112,174.40 per annum (full-time equivalent - to be prorated for part-time) to ANUM Year 2 (YW12) $115, full-time equivalent - to be prorated for part-time) dependent on candidate experience. To be discussed with Hiring Manager

Applicants to this role should provide a covering letter outlining relative key skills and experience to assist us with our assessment.

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Hiring Manager: Lisa Cameron - Nurse Manager
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Applications Close: 11:59pm Friday 22 August
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Position Summary
The role of the Associate Nurse Unit Manger is to support the Nurse Unit Manager (NUM) and act in their role when required. This is a position of clinical leadership and accountability that aligns with Peter Mac's values. This includes management of the unit through the coordination of nursing activities and related services for the provision of quality patient focussed care in conjunction with other members of the leadership team.
To translate the objectives policies, and procedures of PMCC into effective care for our patients.
To ensure/apply evidence based best practice standards of oncology nursing practice Enterprise Agreement
Nurses and Midwives (Victorian Public Sector) (Single Interest Employers) Enterprise Agreement Classification or Salary Range
ANUM Year 1 to ANUM Year 2 (YW11-YW12) Immunisation Risk Category
Immunisation Category A Key Relationships
Internal
- Patients, Families and Carers
- Nurse Unit Manager
- Academic Nursing Unit
- Nursing Staff
- Allied Health Staff
- Medical Staff
- Patient Support Staff
- Executive staff

External
- Community services
- Universities and other relevant professional development bodies
- Primary Health Agencies
- Public Hospitals
- General Public Education
Skills
Certifications, Licenses & Registrations
Registration with Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA) Membership of relevant professional organisation ie CNSA Key Accountabilities

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Key Accountabilities
Demonstrated by / Key Performance Indicators

1. Professional Leadership and Care Coordination

• Consistently models behaviours that contribute to a culture of respect, excellence, compassion and innovation for patients, families and multidisciplinary staff
• Consistently adheres to standards and policies of the organisation and ensures they are translated into action within the
• Ensures all staff function within legal requirements of their scope of practice
• Promotes a participative team environment that recognizes the skills and abilities of individual team members and promote staff to acquire new skills
• Evidence of mentorship of staff
• Provides leadership of the unit in the absence of the NUM
• Contributes to and represents own clinical service and nursing services through committees and working groups

2. Effective Resource Management

• Responsible for daily coordination of staff ensuring the safe and efficient service is provided
• Manages staff and resources efficiently and manages the daily and future roster
• Supports the orientation of new staff members, contributes to and participates in staff recruitment and supports NUM with staff appraisals
• Promotes an environment which encourages awareness of financial resources and targets
• Supports NUM with processes to improve financial variances

3. Contributes to clinical practice, education and research

• Participates in the development of formal and informal educational sessions to continuously improve clinical practice
• Collaborates with the NUM and clinical nurses to determine priorities for educational sessions
• Encourages staff attendance at hospital in-service programmes, external conferences and short course program
• Supports nursing research to promote clinical knowledge development and evidence based clinical practice
• Systematically evaluates own practice and identifies pertinent areas of clinical practice, management and education for investigation
• Ensures clinical practice is based on best practice standards in oncology nursing and current policies and procedures

4. Quality and Improvement

• Works collaboratively with the NUM to establish and enable a culture of performance improvement and evaluation, and develops and evaluates new initiatives to mitigate risk, ensuring quality of nursing care and excellent patient outcomes
• Supports the NUM with the development of KPIs and quality activities for the Ensures adherence and delivery against Service KPIs through active engagement with staff and role modelling
• Participates in relevant unit activities including audits and reporting to monitor and report against standards of clinical practice, recommending improvements
• Supports NUM with preparation and successful participation of the clinical unit in accreditation activities
• Demonstrated leadership and promotion of implementation of evidence-based practice

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Key Accountabilities (Contd..)

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Peter Mac is a child safe organisation and has a commitment to child safety and wellbeing.

WHY WORK FOR PETER MAC

• Peter Mac offer a range of benefits which support our people both personally and professionally.
• Our staff benefits include award winning facilities, professional development and events, a health and wellbeing program, flexible work practices and policies and financial benefits such as salary packaging.
• We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, all members of the LGBTQI community and people with a disability.

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