Nurse Unit Manager - Enhanced Care Unit
MELBOURNE, VIC, AU, 3000
At Peter Mac we aim to continuously improve cancer care, research and education across all cancers and for all people affected by cancer: changing lives, breaking new ground. Everything we do is underpinned by our core values, Excellence, Compassion and Innovation. Welcoming people from a wide variety of different backgrounds and experiences is critical to fostering innovation, cultivating compassion, attracting and retaining top talent and providing the best possible cancer care for our patients.
YOUR ROLE IN OUR FUTURE
Nurse Unit Manager | Enhanced Care Unit
Fixed Term (Parental Leave), Full-Time Role
At Peter Mac everything we do as nurses is underpinned by our core values – Excellence, Innovation and Compassion. We provide world class cancer nursing care, informed by research and state of the art education to every patient and their family.
THE ENHANCED CARE UNIT
The Enhanced Care Unit at Peter Mac is an innovative unit which has been operational for just over 12 months and provides high quality, specialised care for cancer patients requiring higher levels of monitoring and clinical support. This enhanced model of care in internationally recognised. Patients within the unit may require invasive and non-invasive continuous blood pressure monitoring, advanced haemodynamic support, continuous cardiac monitoring, high flow oxygen, complex fluid and medication infusions including noradrenaline, epidurals, or intrathecal opioids. The Enhanced Care Unit is a six-bed unit located at Peter Mac’s Parkville Campus. The unit has two negative pressure isolation rooms and four patient bays all with line of sight from the main nurses’ station. The unit runs 24 hours per day, 7 days per week.
THE PATIENTS
Peter Mac cares for patients with a complex array of cancer types that require treatments that are integrated and carefully planned. Treatments may involve several modalities such as medicines, surgery, radiotherapy and in more recent years the growth of immunotherapies have seen significant advances. As the treatments for cancer have advanced, we have seen increased complexity and acuity of care needs for our patients. The Enhanced Care Unit was introduced to ensure we continue to deliver world’s best cancer care that meets the needs of our patients.
THE TEAM
The Enhanced Care Unit includes a Nurse Unit Manager, Clinical Nurse Educator, Associate Nurse Unit Managers and Registered Nurses who work collaboratively with the multidisciplinary team to ensure safe and high-quality care for our patients. The Enhanced Care Unit works closely with the High Acuity Team including the ICU Outreach Nurses, the Academic Nursing Unit and Specialist Medical teams. There is a strong relationship with the Royal Melbourne Hospital’s Intensive Care Unit and Emergency Department to ensure patients are cared for in the most appropriate setting.
THE OPPORTUNITY
The Nurse Unit Manager position is an opportunity to lead in the ongoing establishment and evaluation of the Enhanced Care Unit at Peter Mac. The role will involve working with the clinical leads to ensure the services within the unit align with the care needs of the patients and support the development of polices and guidelines to ensure safe and appropriate patient care. Working with the Clinical Nurse Educator to develop an education and training plan will also be a key aspect of this role. This role is an opportunity to be involved in the ongoing development of a dynamic and evolving area of complex and high acuity cancer care at Peter Mac.
YOU
We are seeking an experienced Nurse Unit Manager with experience in ICU or HDU and a postgraduate qualification in critical care nursing. You will have human and financial resource management capability, proven ability to lead and experience in the implementation of quality improvement, work practice reform and change within a large organisation.
Remuneration as per Nurses and Midwives (Victorian Public Sector) (Single Interest Employers) Enterprise Agreement 2024-2028. Nurse Manager 3 (NM11) $126,074.00 per annum (full-time rate – to be prorated for part-time hours) to Nurse Manager 4 (NM12) $130,509.60 per annum (full-time rate – to be prorated for part-time hours) dependent on candidate experience. To be discussed with Hiring Manager.
Applicants to this role should provide a covering letter outlining relative key skills and experience to assist us with our assessment.
CONTACT
For a confidential discussion about the role please contact Bronwyn Gilmore
Email: bronwyn.gilmore@petermac.org
Phone: 03 8559 7682
Applications Close: 11:59pm Wednesday 19th February 2025.
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Position Summary
The Enhanced Care Unit Nurse Unit Manger (NUM) is a senior leadership position with considerable experience and knowledge in critical care nursing. The NUM provides leadership, accountability and oversight within the Enhanced Care Unit.
• Key accountability and oversight of leadership and governance of nursing related patient care across the Enhanced Care Unit including the High Acuity Team Nurses
• Key accountability for nursing management, and delivery of high acuity patient services
• Leadership of evidence-based best practice
• Leadership of the nursing workforce ensuring delivery of best patient care
• Key accountability for oversight and delivery of efficient operational and business processes in the Enhanced Care Unit
Enterprise Agreement
Nurses and Midwives (Victorian Public Sector) (Single Interest Employers) Enterprise Agreement 2020-2024
Classification or Salary Range
NM11-12 (Nurse Manager 3-4)
Immunisation Risk Category
Category A: Position involving direct patient contact, potential for exposure to blood, body fluid, human tissue specimens during course of a normal working day
Key Relationships
| Internal | • High Acuity Team • Anaesthetics • Interdisciplinary team members • Nurse Managers • Academic Nursing Unit • After Hours Hospital Coordinators • Finance Business Partner • Clinical Services Staff • Infection Prevention Services • Other departments including Supply and Health Information Services |
| External | • Royal Melbourne Hospital Intensive Care Unit • Royal Melbourne Hospital Emergency Department |
Skills
| Essential Requirements | • AHPRA Registered Nurse Division 1 • Postgraduate qualification in critical care nursing • Recent experience, demonstrated knowledge and expertise in ICU or HDU nursing • A demonstrated knowledge and experience in the management and delivery of a health care service. • Human and financial resource management capability • Excellent communication and presentation skills that demonstrate the ability to engage, enable and manage teams. • Proven ability to lead and work effectively within a multi-disciplinary setting • Demonstrated commitment to excellence in patient care • An understanding of, and experience with, developing evidence-based practice • Demonstrated involvement in professional activities and organisations • Experience in the implementation of quality improvement, work practice reform and change within a large organisation |
| Desirable Requirements |
• Evidence of experience in the departmental strategic planning |
Certifications, Licenses & Registrations
Key Accountabilities
| Key Accountabilities | Demonstrated by / Key Performance Indicators |
| 1. Resource Management | • Demonstrates leadership and accountability for proactive maintenance and adequacy of nursing workforce across the Enhanced Care Unit • Demonstrates leadership and accountability for annual unit budget build in accordance with department goals and targets and delivery of balanced budget. Meets annual budget target. • Leads recruitment, selection, retention, and performance management of nursing staff. • Supports senior nursing staff to create a dynamic, positive learning culture for each staff member and to take constructive action if a discrepancy is recognised between actual performance, and performance requirement. |
| 2. Education | • Leadership of an environment committed to learning and practice evolution. • Accountability for department based orientation and allocation of a preceptor (or equivalent model) to all new staff. • Accountability for regular in-service education across the Service, targeting the needs of diverse nurses working within and across diverse specialist modalities. • To inform and define a program of competencies in consultation with multidisciplinary colleagues, patients and families in collaboration with the nursing education team and Chief Nursing Officer. • Evidence of: - Contribution to a dynamic and responsive program of Service wide based competencies and organisational wide educational opportunities for the nursing workforce - 100% completion of Service based orientation and allocation of a preceptor (or equivalent model) on commencement in the Enhanced Care Unit - 100% compliance with all mandatory in training - Accountability for oversight of competency levels of all nursing staff across the Enhanced Care Unit - Delivery of a strategic professional development plan for the Enhanced Care Unit, incorporating effective succession planning and aligning individual staff plans with the strategic framework using relevant instruments i.e. performance reviews. |
Key Accountabilities (Contd..)
| Key Accountabilities | Demonstrated by / Key Performance Indicators |
| 3. Professional Leadership and Development | • Consistently models behaviours that contribute to a culture of respect, excellence, compassion and innovation for patients, families and staff. • Consistently adheres to standards and policies of the organisation and ensures they are translated into action across the Service. • Actively participates in and demonstrates leadership on committees, interdisciplinary and interdepartmental forums informing patient care and multidisciplinary practice. • Creates an environment where staff are encouraged and enabled to acquire new skills, identify and develop new ideas and outcomes, aligned with organisational strategic directions • Ensures all staff across the Service adhere to the Nurses Code of Ethics and function within legal requirements of their scope of nursing practice • Actively promotes the work of Peter Mac through external committee, professional organisation or academic engagements • Evidence of: - A healthy and productive working and learning environment for patients, families and staff throughout the Enhanced Care Unit - Attendance, participation and leadership at senior nursing and multidisciplinary forum (internal and external) - A knowledgeable, engaged and motivated nursing workforce across the Enhanced Care Unit - Adherence to all EBA, regulatory and legal requirements for self and all nursing staff - Excellence in professional standards, ethical behaviours and values-based culture as reported in staff surveys, patient feedback and performance reviews |
| 4. Quality Improvement and Research | • Establishes and enables a culture of performance improvement and evaluation and develops and evaluates new initiatives to mitigate risk ensuring quality of nursing care and excellent patient outcomes • Directs and oversees the development of KPIs and quality activities for the Service. Ensures adherence and delivery against Service KPIs through active engagement with staff and role modelling • Ensures proactive preparation and successful participation in accreditation activities • Identifies opportunities for and actively participates in educational and research activities • Leads and participates in the implementation of evidence-based practice • Informs and collaborates with research groups across the organisation to generate new nursing knowledge to contribute to a research-based clinical practice environment. • Evidence of: - Proactive and dynamic annual unit quality plan produced and used to monitor performance - KPIs for the Service developed, monitored and analysed with evidence of impact on patient experience and outcomes and effective resource management - Participation with, and successful delivery of, improving performance against accreditation standards - Demonstrated leadership of evidence based practice, and engagement with research and education - Accountability for ensuring nursing practice reflects current local, state and national policies and procedures as relevant - Active engagement of patients and families in developing quality metrics for the Enhanced Care Unit - Active engagement of patients and families in considering and responding to Service wide quality data |
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WHY WORK FOR PETER MAC
- Peter Mac offer a range of benefits which support our people both personally and professionally.
- Our staff benefits include award winning facilities, professional development and events, a health and wellbeing program, flexible work practices and policies and financial benefits such as salary packaging.
- We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, all members of the LGBTQI community and people with a disability.