About Monash Health

Monash Health is Victoria’s largest public health service. We are proud to provide healthcare to one quarter of Melbourne’s population, across the entire life-span from newborn and children, to adults, the elderly, their families and carers. More than 22,000 employees work at over 40 care locations across south eastern Melbourne, including Monash Medical Centre, Monash Children’s Hospital, Moorabbin Hospital, Dandenong Hospital, Casey Hospital, Kingston Centre, Cranbourne Centre and our new state of the art Victorian Heart Hospital. We also provide exceptional care to an extensive network of rehabilitation, aged care, community health and mental health facilities. For more information please visit www.monashhealth.org.

Nursing and Midwifery Education & Strategy (NaMES) supports the organisation in achieving their vision and values by providing education and training and advancing clinical practice to ensure Monash Health has a contemporary, flexible and highly skilled workforce

About the Role                                                                        

An exciting opportunity is available for a Clinical Support Nurse within the  Nursing and Midwifery Education and Strategy team (NaMES) within Monash Health in the Intensive Care Unit. Primarily based at our Dandenong campus but not limited. Our intensive care unit is a dynamic high acuity unit which offers a variety of patient cohorts and a vast range of complexities providing a challenging and rewarding working environment.

This is a permanent ongoing role.   

We are looking for a highly skilled critical care trained nurse with a passion for education.

This role includes providing:

• Supporting contemporary education that promotes best practice standards
• Clinical support to staff of all proficiency levels novice to expert
• Demonstrating and promoting expertise and best practice standards
• Working collaboratively with the leadership team including the multi-disciplinary team
• Utilises resources such as the professional development framework to support a flexible and highly skilled workforce

About You

You are a highly skilled nurse with well-developed clinical skills and excel in engagement, communication and collaboration within the team environment. You have a passion for and experience in supporting learners. You will have a minimum of or working towards post graduate qualifications in critical care (ICU nursing)

You can confidently demonstrate the following:

• Commitment to quality clinical care and sound clinical skills
• Developing leadership and  the ability to work effectively with a multi-disciplinary team
• Ability to show initiative and work independently when required
• A well-developed understanding of different teaching and learning styles, and able to demonstrate high quality creation, delivery and evaluation of your teaching via various modalities

 What You Need:

• Current AHPRA registration
• Demonstrated experience in intensive care nursing
• minimum postgraduate certificate in critical care (ICU) nursing

What We Offer:

• access to Monash Health in-house learning portals to further expand your acute clinical skills & knowledge base
• working collaborative with passionate and committed education team to develop our future workforce
• avenues to further develop your leadership & project management skills
• mentorship & career guidance
• support to attend relevant forums & conferences
• a supportive learning environment, should you wish to continue postgraduate studies

In addition, you will have access to benefits including salary packaging to increase your take-home pay, access to onsite subsidised staff car parking and gym, uniform and the Employee Assistance Program (EAP).

How to Apply

Monash Health recognises the value of equal employment opportunity and is committed to patient safety and promoting fairness, equity and diversity in the workplace. At Monash Health we are relentless in our pursuit of excellence and work to our six guiding principles.

Preferred candidates will require a clear Police Check and a current Employee Working with Children’s Check and up to date COVID vaccinations prior to any offers of employment being made.

As part of our selection process, you may be invited by email to participate in an on-camera video interview.

Applications will only be accepted via the Monash Health online Mercury System only. Email applications will not be considered.

Existing Monash Health Employees should apply using your Monash Health employee account. For any queries regarding employee accounts contact Recruitment Services at recruitment@monashhealth.org.

Offers of employment can only be made once all required probity checks have been completed.  These include:

• reference checks
• a clear Police Check conducted within the last three months
• a current Victorian Employee Working with Children’s Check (or proof of payment for same)
• proof of immunisation

A request to conduct probity checks does not guarantee that an offer of employment will be made.

As part of our selection process, you may be invited by email to participate in an on-camera video interview.
Under the Victorian Public Health orders, all employees working within the Public Health system must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and Influenza and are required to provide acceptable evidence of their vaccination status. The current orders require evidence of three doses for COVID-19.

All applicants to positions with Monash Health will need to upload acceptable evidence of full vaccination against COVID-19 and Influenza as part of their application. Acceptable evidence is a copy of your Immunisation History Statement which can be accessed via myGov.

Offers of employment will only be made to candidates who can provide evidence that they meet full vaccination status.