#523330Registered Nurse

Calvary Mater Newcastle

Intensive Care Unit

Casual Positions Available

• Casual Positions Available
• Salary Classification: Registered Nurse Year 3-8.
• Remuneration:$39.16-$49.60 per hour, excluding superannuation and applicable loadings.

The Role:

We seek Registered Nurses with Intensive Care experience, excellent communication skills, and a desire to plan and deliver high-quality patient-centred care. Our Intensive Care Registered Nurses must utilise their advanced knowledge and clinical skills to provide complex and advanced nursing care to critically ill patients.

Within your role, you will provide safe, compassionate, person-centred care within the ICU, ensuring care is delivered in collaboration with patients/families/carers and a multidisciplinary team. You will ensure that you accurately document your nursing and patient care and ensure you communicate with other team members. You will demonstrate flexibility that meets the changing needs of the patients within our unit.

Key Responsibilities

• Timely, complete and accurate documentation of nursing care and patient’s progress.
• Participate in the Medical rounds to ensure communication of patient needs and changes.
• Accurately and comprehensively handover nursing care of critically ill patients to nursing colleagues.
• Communicate effectively with the families of critically ill patients, including recognising the need to involve pastoral care services.

What you bring

• Able to work proficiently in periods of high demand and activity.
• Demonstrated communication, organisational and interpersonal skills.
• Demonstrated commitment to own personal and professional development.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively as a member of a multidisciplinary team.
• Recent demonstrated experience in an acute care facility and recent experience in Intensive Care.
• Registered Nurse authorised to practise by the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA)

For further information please contact, Katrina Gunn - Nurse Unit Manager at or (02) 4985 0316.

WHY JOIN US?

CMN is an Affiliated Health Organisation providing services to both public and private patients primarily from the Hunter New England area. Current employees of NSW Health can request to have various leave entitlement balances transferred to CMN on commencement. Leave types may include but not limited to Long Service Leave, Annual Leave and Sick Leave. Applicants are encouraged to discuss this with the Convenor for further information. Working at CMN gives you access to a great range of benefits:

• Fitness Passport.
• Gender Neutral parental leave
• Annual Leave Loading at 17.5 %
• Superannuation contributions at 11%
• ADO's each month (for full-time employees)
• Novated leasing available for eligible employees
• 4 weeks annual leave (pro-rata for part-time employees)
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for staff and family members
• GenerousSalary packaging options that reduce your taxable income and increase your take-home pay!

HOW DO YOU APPLY?

• Click ‘Apply for Job’ and follow the prompts. As part of your application, you will be asked to:
• Create a profile in our Calvary People Platform (if you are not an existing user)
• Attach a current resume.
• Provide a written response to four (4) selection criteria.
• Cover letters are optional (1-2 pages max.)

Please note: Only the criteria in the application needs to be addressed, however you’ll be assessed against the full list of Essential Criteria located within the attached Position Description.

As we serve the community across Home, Virtual and Residential Aged Care, Retirement Living and Hospitals, one thing sets us apart. Care from the heart. If this sounds like you, apply for a role with Calvary today.

Please note the following:

• As part of the application process, you will be required to complete pre-employment checks which may include, but is not limited to reference checks, work rights, criminal history check, WWCC checks, and a health evaluation to ensure suitability for the role.
• You will be required to provide evidence of immunisation as required for your role including COVID-19, influenza, tuberculosis screening, hepatitis, diphtheria, tetanus, varicella.