Registered Nurse - Critical Care/ICU

- Join our collaborative team | thrive in a supportive environment

- Commitment to Quality Patient Care

- Permanent Full Time Role

Melbourne Private Hospital is seeking an experienced Registered Nurse to join our team. You will play a key role within a supportive team to ensure our patients have a great experience throughout their care.

About us
Melbourne Private Hospital is a 124-bed private hospital co-located with the Royal Melbourne Hospital in the heart of Parkville, 1.7km from Melbourne CBD. Our hospital offers highly specialised services including extensive neurosurgery, neurology, advanced coronary care, cardiothoracic, orthopaedic, and general surgery. These services are supported by a 10-bed intensive care unit, 4-bed acute coronary care unit and 6-bed neurosurgical high dependency unit.

As a Registered Nurse – Critical Care/ICU, your responsibilities will include:

• Deliver safe, researched-based standards of nursing care
• Provide complex and multi-disciplinary care
• Work collaboratively in a multi-disciplinary healthcare team to support patient care needs
• Act as a role model for Safe Practice
• Supervise, direct and support nursing team members
• Deliver education and support to individuals/patients for the management of their health recovery, rehabilitation or end of life needs
• Supervise, direct and guide nursing team members; Enrolled Nurses (ENs) and Assistants in Nursing (AINs) to deliver patient care

Essential Criteria:

• Authority to Work in Australia
• Victorian Working with Children check
• Bachelor of Science (Nursing) or equivalent 
• Current Registration (no restriction) with AHPRA
• Post Graduate Certificate in ICU/CCU (or working towards)
• Clinical experience in an ICU environment
• Compliance with ACQSHC National standards
• Clinical expertise and commitment to high quality patient care and continuous improvement
• Self-motivated and proven ability to work as part of a high functioning team
• Highly developed interpersonal skills, proactive, motivated and customer focused

Why Healthscope?

When you join Healthscope, you become part of our Community of Care. Our people are at the heart of our organisation - no matter the role, every day our people make a difference to the lives of our patients and their families. As the only national private hospital operator and healthcare provider in Australia, our 42 sites are supported by our central Support Office, enabling them to provide an exceptional experience for the communities we care for. 

• Flexibility to work across one or multiple hospitals across our network
• Discounted health insurance
• Continuous professional development, education & support provided to encourage growth

We pride ourselves on working with talented, passionate and caring people to ensure our patients receive the highest quality care and experience during their stay with us.

Come and be the difference in our patient's lives.

Applications close: 17th December 2024

If you are successful, you will receive a salary based on your years of relevant nursing experience against the current nursing Enterprise Agreement the "Healthscope - Victoria - Nurses Enterprise Agreement 2021 - 2025" (salaries range between $36.13 to $48.32 per hour + super)

To Apply: Please click on the 'Apply' button to be taken to our online application form. For any questions, please reach out to recruitment@healthscope.com.au

More Information: Our commitment to quality and safety for our patients, staff and visitors is our highest priority. Applicants will be required to provide a current National Police check, WWCC (where applicable) and Evidence of right to work in Australia prior to appointment. Staff in patient contact roles will be required to provide proof of immunity to specified infectious diseases as a Category A Healthcare worker.