Registered Nurse

The Royal Melbourne Hospital

• Fixed term 29/04/2024 - 15/09/2024 Part time 56hrs per fortnight
• Responsible for patient home dialysis education and ongoing support
• The Home Dialysis Service – RMH Kidney Care Service (KCS)

Your new team:

• The RMH Kidney Care Home Dialysis Service (HDS) provides dialysis care to patients and families in the northern and western suburbs of Melbourne and areas throughout regional Victoria.
• The HDS team embraces a leadership role in evolving services to promote independence and well-being for people who choose the options and benefits of home haemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis.
• We are a team that works collaboratively with various medical and nursing teams. We are passionate about caring for our patients providing innovative services.

Your new role:

• The role of the Home Dialysis Services nurse is the provision of patient and family oriented renal services that promote independence in the home setting.
• Responsible for patient education in home haemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis, including PD and Home Haemodialysis training in the home. 
• Participate in outreach nurse clinics and home visits in metropolitan and rural areas. 
• Facilitate the coordination of pre-dialysis and post-education care via face to face or telephone consultation
• Assume responsibility for primary patient caseload management.
  • The nurse in this position will be an active member of the home dialysis team and will contribute to quality improvement in all areas of service delivery
  • Partner with people leaders to provide contemporary, innovative and accurate best practice advice.
  • Ensure continuous improvement to achieve high quality of patient care outcomes and meet organisational goals.
  • Work within the team and support others to deliver excellent nursing practice and care within the defined scope of practice.

About you:

• Registered nurse division 1 with current registration with AHPRA
• Post-graduate qualification in renal nursing and minimum 2 years of peritoneal dialysis and haemodialysis nursing experience
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to be innovative and resourceful
• Ability to adapt best practice health care models into professional nursing practice
• Patient outcome and team focus
• Experience in patient education
• Current Australian Driver’s license
• You are an AHPRA registered Nurse with ward experience and are willing to work on a rotating roster, within our supportive and dedicated multidisciplinary team.

Benefit of working with The Royal Melbourne Hospital:

• Career progression opportunities to suit your professional development goals.
• Enjoy excellent work-life balance working in a supportive and collaborative team
• Salary packaging, onsite car parking and, close to public transport

The RMH is proud to be a workplace that champions diversity, inclusion and equality for our staff and our community.  Our goal is for our people to feel safe, included and supported so that they can be at their best every single day. We encourage talented people from all backgrounds, abilities and identities to apply to our vacancies, and will consider adjustments to support such applications.

Interested?

If you are looking for a challenging role and can demonstrate the above capabilities, connect with us.

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All appointments are made subject to a satisfactory Criminal History Record Check. All RMH employees are required to provide evidence of an immunisation assessment including evidence of vaccination against COVID-19 (3 doses) and Influenza with a TGA approved vaccine (mandatory for all clinical and or patient facing roles) prior to commencement. This is in accordance with the Victorian Minister of Health’s Mandatory Vaccination Orders for COVID-19 and legislated requirement for influenza vaccination.   

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