Graduate Enrolled Nurse

Here at Healthscope career growth in our graduate program means more
More opportunities, exceptional and diverse career pathways, support for specialisation and mentorship and leadership programs. This provides you the opportunity to give your career the best possible head start.

At Healthscope we realise how hard you’ve studied to get to this point. Taking the next step in your career is an important milestone. With us you can kick start your employment as an early career nurse or midwife through our comprehensive and individually tailored program. With full time or part time options available (minimum 0.8 FTE), our 12-month program is coupled with an additional Consolidation Year to further support your transition to practice and develop your clinical skills and knowledge.

As the only national private hospital operator and healthcare provider in Australia, our 38 sites offer a range of acute, medical, surgical, mental health and rehabilitation services to the communities we care for.

Healthscope opens the door to endless opportunities for our people, giving them the flexibility to work across one or multiple hospitals across our network, providing the perfect opportunity for our people to thrive both professionally and personally.

Newcastle Private Hospital, where doing what you love means more.
Newcastle Private Hospital is a 189 bed, acute, private hospital facility co-located on the John Hunter Campus at Rankin Park. The hospital has 11 theatres including a hybrid theatre and a 15 bed Intensive Care Unit.  It also has a cardiac suite including a cardiac catheter laboratory and a 16 bed Coronary Care Unit.  A private maternity suite including 6 birthing suites and a special care baby nursery is available for families in the Newcastle region.

We are also an integrated, multidisciplinary cancer service, offering chemotherapy and immunotherapies for both inpatients and outpatients in our 9 chair infusion centre and dedicated 10 bed oncology ward.

Enrolled Nurses at Healthscope perform a variety of tasks under the supervision of registered nurses. Some of the tasks that you may be responsible for, in collaboration with the Registered Nurse, include caring for a group of patients, patient admission and discharge, medication administration, wound care, pre and post-operative care and liaising with medical staff and other health professionals. You will have the opportunity to continually develop, improve and promote best evidence-based practice.

Site Specific Streams available
At Newcastle Private Hospital the following streams are on offer:

• General
• Periop

When it comes to our Graduate Program – we’ve got you
We know that you are passionate about nursing and that’s why it is important to us to have a graduate program that sets us apart and provides you with lots of opportunities.

• 38 hospitals across Australia – multi site rotation opportunities available
• Multiple streams on offer with generous supernumerary time to support your transition to clinical practice
• Dedicated support from our broad network of experienced teams based at site, state and national levels
• State Orientation Days to connect with fellow graduates and Healthscope leaders
• Early Career Ambassadors available for peer networking and support
• Site, state and national paid study days
• We encourage and support you to take one week of annual leave in your first rotation because we care about your well-being
• Graduation ceremony

Eager to learn a little more
Then check out our dedicated Healthscope Graduate website here where we have tailored information on each of the below:

• The recruitment and selection process
• Graduate Program timelines
• Perks of working at Healthscope
• Development opportunities
• What happens post your Graduate year
• A message from our CEO Greg Horan about what’s important to us at Healthscope

Like the sound of what you’ve read above and keen to join a Graduate Program and organisation where your career means more?
Complete an online application and take the next exciting step in your career.

To make your experience more seamless when completing an online application with us, we encourage you to have the following documents easily to hand:

• Right to work evidence
• CV
• Your two most recent summative student clinical placement reports

Are you ready to join Healthscope where your career means more? Take the next exciting step in your career today