Associate Nurse Manager

Job Requisition ID: 5957

Legal Entity: Monash Health

Location:
Dandenong, VIC, AU, 3175

Employment Type: Part Time

Posting Date: 10 Oct 2025

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About the Role

Join our team as an Associate Nurse Manager, to work Monash Newborn at Special Care Nursery at Dandenong Hospital in a fixed term part time/full time position until February 2026.

Our leaders love coming to work every day to be able to provide safe and excellent family centred care. You'll enjoy the variety and challenge that comes from working with likeminded skilled senior staff and mentors, while being supported by your manager and other leaders within the program and broader health service. We are now looking to engage a highly motivated and experienced nursing professional to fill an important clinical and operational leadership role.

Reporting to and working closely with the Nurse Unit Managers, this role provides the chance to grow your leadership skills which demonstrating your highly developed clinical knowledge.

Key areas of accountability include:

• Ensuring the delivery of high quality evidence-based nursing care;
• Working collaboratively with sick and premature babies and their families, and a highly skilled multidisciplinary team to achieve goals and health outcomes;
• Establishing and maintaining effective communication with health professionals, support staff and other stakeholders, both internal and external to Monash Health;
• Consistently role modelling nursing excellence, demonstrating your commitment to family-centred care and best practice standards; and
• Contributing to the attainment and sharing of professional clinical expertise through networking with colleagues across the Monash Newborn Program.

We work within a team model of care - and in practicing within this model, we provide our patients and their families, a consistency in their care provision and clear communication across their journey.

This is a position requiring flexibility to work across a rotating roster, 7 days, including night duty and weekends.

About Us

The Special Care Nursery at Dandenong Hospital is a 3 bed Level 3 Nursery with facilities for ongoing neonatal care. Our priority is looking after any unwell babies from our busy birth unit/maternity ward. We are part of Monash newborn Team and we work together across sites to ensure that newborn babies and their families receive the best care and we able to get babies closer to home.

About You

To ensure your success in this role you will bring the following demonstrated skills, experience and knowledge:

• dedicated to safe best practice & quality family centred care
• enthusiastic, compassionate & able to work collaboratively
• excited to be accountable for and manage specific portfolios in our relentless pursuit of excellence
• Committed to ongoing professional development and increasing your skills and knowledge in Neonatal Intensive Care and Special Care Nursery
• Current AHPRA registration to practice independently as a practitioner
• Ability to meet the operational need of the position
• Previous midwifery, neonatal or paediatric nursing experience

In Return

You are passionate about caring for newborns and their families and providing the best possible start to life for these vulnerable infants. You come to work with likeminded collegues, who want to make a difference in the lives of the families you care for. Be part of a great team and work together to achieve the common goals of safe and excellence Family centred care. Be part of a program that encompasses learning and provides opportunities for professional development.

For a confidential discussion and to explore the opportunity further, please call Nurse Manager Mandie Lehmann on mobile

Position Description can be found here

We recognise the value of equal employment opportunity. We are committed to patient safety, promoting fairness, equity and diversity in the workplace and to Child Safe Standards. At Monash Health we are relentless in our pursuit of excellence and work to our six guiding principles and our five ICare values.

How to Apply

Applications are accepted via the Monash Health online EHub system. For information including how to apply and probity check requirements, please click here for the 'Application Guide'

Applications will be screened upon receipt and selection activity may commence prior to the closing date.

Applications close: Friday 24th October 2025