Nurse Unit Manager

Your role at St John of God Subiaco Hospital

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Nurse Unit Manager to lead our Scrub Scout main theatres team. This is a key leadership role at St John of God Subiaco where you will oversee 18 operating theatres and play a crucial part in our commitment to clinical excellence and patient safety. This is a large high-volume department, with the specialties of orthopaedics, neurosurgery, cardiac and general surgery.

Our Preoperative Services are equipped with state-of-the-art technology and a highly skilled team of medical professionals to ensure that our Scrub Scout Nurses have everything they need to perform their duties efficiently. This allows them to work seamlessly with the surgical team to provide the best possible care for patients undergoing procedures in our facility.

In this role you will be responsible for leadership and management of the department/unit, optimising patient safety, quality of care and experience, operational efficiency and contributing to the strategic objectives of the Directorate.

The position

• Monitor standards of service and practice against benchmark targets, including nurse sensitive indicators, incident management system data, clinical indicator results and patient, doctor and caregiver satisfaction results. Where benchmarks are not met, design, implement and evaluate responses.

• Support and participate in the ACHS accreditation process/regulatory assessments, as well as group-wide and divisional Quality and Clinical Risk Management programs.

• Foster a clinical culture of interdisciplinary collaboration to improve patient outcomes.

• Ensure that patients and consumers are actively involved in relevant planning and decision-making processes.

• Work in a clinical capacity within the department as required, to support caregivers, medical officers and to ensure the delivery of safe, person-centred care.

• Ongoing financial management and monitoring of the service cost centre including productivity, activity and utilisation in line with budgetary parameters and performance targets.

• Participate in the implementation and maintenance of a workforce model/model of care that enables quality of care to be maintained as well as implementing appropriate levels of workforce skills.

• Cost-effectively manage human resources, particularly 'on-call', overtime and rostering practices in accordance with enterprise agreements entitlements.

• Review payroll and personnel data in relation to service/unit caregivers, managing absenteeism, agency utilisation, and leave entitlements to achieve departmental budget.

• Participate in developing and implementing a recruitment, retention and succession plan to achieve skill mix profile and FTE requirements.

• Prepare and implement, in conjunction with the DDON and Finance, the annual Operational Plan/Management Plan for the service/unit.

You will hold registration with Nursing & Midwifery Board of Australia (AHPRA) as a Registered Nurse with extensive clinical experience in Perioperative Scrub Scout nursing and relevant advanced clinical, decision making and problem-solving skills. You will demonstrate effective leadership, mentoring and coaching and be committed to quality improvement and best practice principles.

To succeed you will have a demonstrated ability to foster a positive service orientated culture that encourages sound patient care and stewardship and strengthens medical, nursing and interdisciplinary relationships and teams.

Above all, patients will be at the core of everything you do committing to and supporting our Mission and Values.

We can offer:

• Salary: $136,556 per annum, plus 12% superannuation

• A permanent full-time position, working 76 hours a fortnight.

• Salary packaging up to $18,550 on a range of benefits such as mortgage, rent, meal entertainment, holiday accommodation or other everyday living expenses as well as options to salary package benefits above the FBT cap on items such as:

  • Novated leasing

  • work related expenses

  • self-education and

  • additional superannuation

• A healthy work-life balance through flexible work options, additional purchased leave & well-being programs

• Employee discount on St John of God Hospital & Medical Services and Private Health Insurance

• Employee support through our dedicated free Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

• Innovative Professional Development opportunities

All applicants are asked to submit a covering letter (of no more than two (2) pages) demonstrating how you meet the above position requirements.

For enquiries contact Mieke Steele, Deputy Director of Nursing Procedural Services on

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