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Your Role at St John of God Bunbury Hospital

You will lead and manage the Operating and Angiography Suite. This role is pivotal in achieving best practice outcomes for key stakeholders - patients, doctors, caregivers, the hospital and wider St John of God Health Care group.

The focus is on achieving excellence within your nursing unit or service, with high standards of nursing practice and patient centred care, effective stewardship of resources, commitment to developing caregiver teams, and building and maintaining strong relationships with your stakeholders, particularly doctors and the team in their Practice within the operating suite.

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.

• Accountability for ensuring compliance with relevant Acts, Agreements and SJOGSH Directions, Policies and Procedures.

• Provide leadership, through effective personal, professional communication, and interpersonal capabilities and change management as well as team and strategic capabilities – as outlined in the SJGHC Leadership Profile.

• Build a team focussed culture reflecting service excellence by engaging in clear and respectful communication and seeking and valuing the contribution of caregivers and doctors.

• Facilitate caregiver development, including preceptoring, coaching, mentoring and achieving competencies.

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

• Develop and maintain effective relationships with relevant internal and external professional groups to build and enhance service delivery on a divisional and group-wide basis.

You will have the ability to foster a positive service orientated culture that encourages sound patient care and stewardship, and strengthens medical, nursing and interdisciplinary relationships and teams. In addition, you will have a demonstrated ability to effectively manage risks, balance competing priorities and deliver within expected timeframes.

To succeed you will hold Registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia as a Registered Nurse/ Registered Midwife and hold a relevant post basic qualification in Perioperative Nursing and/or Management (or significant recent post-registration experience and the ability to practice and lead at an advanced level).

Additionally, you will have at least three years’ nurse unit management experience and proven experience in setting, monitoring and meeting budgeted financial and annual operational targets and benchmarks, along with an ability to exercise sound judgement in clinical, management and ethical issues.

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

We Can Offer You

• Salary : $132,579.00 per annum + 11% superannuation

• Permanent full-time position, working 76 hours per 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 welcoming and supportive culture

• Dynamic multidisciplinary team

• Employee discount on St John of God Hospital & Medical Services and private health insurance

• Access to a range of Lifestyle, Health & Wellbeing rewards & discounts

• On-site parking

• Access to fitness and wellbeing benefits through Fitness Passport

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, please contact Corne Habig, Deputy Director of Nursing, on (08) 9722 1827

Applications close Tuesday 10th April 2024

St John of God Health Care embraces diversity and strongly encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and people with disabilities. We are committed to providing a safe environment for all children and vulnerable people in our care and proactively take measures to protect children/vulnerable people from abuse.