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 lifespan from newborn and children, to adults, the elderly, their families and carers. More than 18,000 employees work at over 40 care locations across south east Melbourne, including Monash Medical Centre, Monash Children’s Hospital, Moorabbin Hospital, Dandenong Hospital, Casey Hospital, Kingston Centre, Cranbourne Centre, and an extensive network of rehabilitation, aged care, community health and mental health facilities. For more information, please visit  www.monashhealth.org

About the Opportunity

Monash Health is seeking experienced Registered Nurses, Enrolled Nurses and Registered Midwives to work across our sites, and within our diverse range of specialties including:

• Acute Medicine -Emergency, General Medicine

• Speciality Medicine, Cancer & Critical Care - ICU, CCU, Oncology, Palliative Care

• Surgery & Interventional Services - Anaesthetics, General Surgery, Neurosurgery, Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Orthopaedic surgery, Monash Heart, Plastic Surgery, Renal

• Sub-Acute, Aged Care & Rehabilitation, Residential Services

• Community - Hospital in the Home, Post-Acute Care

• Women’s & Newborn - Birth Unit, Antenatal and Postnatal

• Monash Children's Hospital - Paediatrics, Intensive Care, Special Care and NICU

As a Monash Health employee, you will have the ability to maintain a high level of communication with consumers, carers, visitors and colleagues enabling you to deliver exceptional care. As an integral part of the organisation, you are the face of the MH Bureau casual workforce and consistently demonstrate our core values.

About You

• An experienced Registered Nurse/Midwife/EN with a strong focus on patient centred care and good communication skills.

• Able to work to work a rotating roster (Morning, Afternoon, Night Duty) across Monash Health sites

• Required to work across a minimum of three (3) Monash Health sites-including a minimum of twelve (12 locations)

• Can maintain a high level of communication

• As the face of Monash Health Bureau, you will consistently demonstrate the core guiding principles of Monash health.

If you have previously been unsuccessful in your application to Monash Health, you are required to gain a minimum of six (6) months further clinical experience before re-applying.

What you need to have:

• Current AHPRA Registration

• Police Check not more than 3 months old

• Relevant qualifications

• Relevant working visa (With full working rights)

• Proven relevant experience-six (6) months acute nursing experience

• Proof of COVID vaccination/immunisation status

• Current Employee Working with Children’s Check

What to expect:

• Opportunity to design your own roster to support your lifestyle through our user-friendly online electronic system

• Roster available 4-6 weeks in advance.

• Exposure to a variety of hospital settings and working with Monash Health’s exceptional healthcare clinicians

• Receive corporate benefits such as salary packaging, access to staff parking, on site Gym, uniform and Employee Assistance Program

• You will be eligible to receive employee benefits extended to permanent employees, in accordance with your part-time hours.

• Opportunity to work short term contracts in areas of your interest/experience.

You will be provided with:

• Continuing education and access to online resources

• Support and exposure to different clinical specialities

• Access to a Nurse Consultant specific for this workforce

About Monash Health Bureau (MHB)

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.

We are now recruiting professional and skilled Registered Nurses / Midwives and Enrolled Nurses to join our Nursing and Midwifery Permanent Pool workforce.

How to Apply

Applications will be accepted via the Monash Health online Mercury System only and must include the digital Nursing and Midwifery-Pool application form. Email applications will not be considered.

Prior to submitting your application to MHB POOL please ensure that you read the Nursing and Midwifery-Pool Application Guidelines-available under ‘Position Description’ section of the job advert.

As part of the application process, MHB utilise a three-step digital application process:

Step One

Download and complete the digital Nursing and Midwifery- POOL Application Form. To access the form please click on the link provided. This must be completed prior to proceeding to Step Two

Step Two

New applicants must go the Monash Health eMercury online recruitment system at https://monashhealth.mercury.com.au/   and create an account.

Existing Monash Health Employees should apply using their current Monash Health employee account. For any queries regarding employee accounts contact Recruitment Services by email – recruitment@monashhealth.org

Step Three

Submit/complete your online application to the job advertisement on the Monash Health eMercury website, ensuring that you include the digital Nursing and Midwifery-Pool application form under the ‘Other Documents’ section.

Please note MHB recruitment will be unable to progress your application unless the above recruitment steps have been followed.

Offers of employment may only be made once all required probity checks have been completed.

These include:

• 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) and

• Proof of immunisation.

• Reference Checks x two (2)-Applicants are required to provide a reference from current/recent clinical manager.

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.
To comply with Victorian Public Health directions, all employees working in the Public Health system must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and Influenza and are required to provide acceptable evidence of their vaccination status. To support your application, and to be compliant with any public health orders in place at the time of, and during, your employment, you will be required to upload evidence of full vaccination. Acceptable evidence is a copy of a Government Official Immunisation History Statement. It is a requirement of Monash Health to collect, record and hold vaccination information. Offers of employment will only be made to candidates who can provide acceptable evidence that they meet full vaccination status.

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