Registered Nurse Grade 4B - ICU Outreach

Date:  15 Sept 2025
Site:  VCCC (Parkville)
Location: 

MELBOURNE, VIC, AU, 3000

Company:  Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
Unit:  ICU Outreach
Division:  Chief Operating Officer
Department:  Patient Access And Flow
Enterprise Agreement:  Nurses and Midwives (Victorian Public Sector) (Sin
ICU Outreach

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
Registered Nurse - ICU Outreach
Casual Role - Multiple Positions Considered
 
The ICU Outreach Nurse provides clinical support to nursing and medical staff in caring for patients who have higher acuity/critical care needs. As an ICU Outreach Nurse, you are also a part of Peter Mac's High Acuity Team (HAT), working alongside a HAT Registrar, responding to all medical emergency calls within Peter Mac. This is a senior nursing role that is an integral link in the transition of patient care between Royal Melbourne Hospital ICU and the Peter Mac wards.
The successful candidate must be a Registered Nurse Division 1 with at least 5 years ICU experience, has a Post Graduate qualification in Critical Care/Intensive Care Nursing and certification in Advanced Life Support 2. Experience in oncology care is highly desirable. Applicants to this role should provide a covering letter outlining relative key skills and experience to assist us with our assessment.

 

Applicants to this role should provide a covering letter outlining relative key skills and experience to assist us with our assessment.
For further information about this opportunity, click Apply to be redirected to the Peter Mac Careers page where you can review the position summary.
 

Alternatively, please contact us using the information below for a confidential discussion.
Hiring Manager: Demi Diaz - Director, Patient Access & Flow
Contact Number: 03 8559 5100
Email: demi.diaz@petermac.org
 
Applications Close: 11:59PM Monday 13th October 2025

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Position Summary

As a Registered Nurse at Peter Mac you are responsible for planning, implementing and evaluating evidence-based nursing care in collaboration with the multidisciplinary team to achieve optimal healthcare outcomes for our patients.     


The Registered Nurse is a key member of the health care team responsible for ensuring nursing professional, organization, legal and ethical standards are met. The Registered Nurse  communicates within the multidisciplinary teams, and is responsible for supervising and delegating to other health care professionals such as Enrolled Nurses and Registered Undergraduate Students of Nursing (RUSON).
 

Enterprise Agreement

Nurses and Midwives (Victorian Public Sector) (Single Interest Employers) Enterprise Agreement 2020-2024.

Classification or Salary Range

ZU35

Immunisation Risk Category

Immunisation Category A

Key Relationships

Internal
  • Nurse Unit Manager 
  • Practice Development Nurse/Clinical Nurse Educator    
  • Nursing Staff   
  • Allied Health Staff  
  • Medical Staff  
  • Patient Support Staff  
  • Patients, Families and Carers 
External
  • Community Health Agencies

 

Skills

Essential Requirements
  • Commitment to Peter Mac’s Values and Peter Mac’s Nursing Values   
  • Registration with Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia 
  • 12 months recent acute medical or surgical experience
  • The ability to be rostered for a minimum of 5 shifts per fortnight to a maximum of 9 shifts per fortnight. 
  • Demonstrated commitment to lifelong learning and continuing professional development 
  • A patient focussed approach to care
  • Demonstrated team player who can foster collaborative partnerships 
  • Basic computer skills and proven ability to use health information systems 
  • Maintain immunisation in accordance with the Staff Immunisation Policy, including vaccination against COVID-19. 
Desirable Requirements
  • Oncology nursing experience
  • Post graduate qualification in area of specialty

 

Key Accountabilities

Key Accountabilities Demonstrated by / Key Performance Indicators
Thinks critically and analyses nursing practice
  • Utilises a variety of thinking strategies and the best available evidence in making decisions and providing safe, quality nursing care within person centred and evidence-based frameworks   
  • Assesses, plans, implements and evaluates nursing care in collaboration with individuals and the multidisciplinary health care team form admission to discharge   
Engages in therapeutic and professional relationships
  • RN practice is based on purposefully engaging in effective therapeutic and professional relationships. This includes collegial generosity in the context of mutual trust and respect in professional relationships
  • Assesses and evaluates patient care needs with appropriate staff member/s ensuring communication and patient care is coordinated with the multidisciplinary team 
Maintains capability for practice
  • RNs as regulated health professionals are responsible and accountable for ensuring they are safe, and have the capability for practice. This includes ongoing self-management and responding when there is a concern about other health professional’s capability for practice
  • RNs are responsible for their professional development including completion of mandatory annual and nursing competencies within agreed timeframes
  • RNs are responsible for contributing to the development of others
  • RNs are also responsible for providing information and education to enable people to make decisions and take action in relation to their health  
Comprehensively conducts assessments
  • RNs accurately conduct comprehensive and systematic assessments that are holistic as well as culturally appropriate
  • Analyse information and data and communicate outcomes as the basis for practice  
Develops a plan for nursing practice
  • RNs are responsible for the planning and communication of nursing practice. Agreed plans are developed in partnership. Plans are based on the RN’s appraisal of comprehensive, relevant information and evidence that is documented and communicated
  • Provides safe, appropriate and responsive quality nursing practice
  • RNs provide and may delegate, quality and ethical goal-directed actions. These are based on comprehensive and systematic assessment and the best available evidence to achieve planned and agreed outcomes   

 

Key Accountabilities (Contd..)

Provides safe, appropriate and responsive quality nursing practice
  • Provides comprehensive safe, quality practice to achieve agreed goals and outcomes that are responsive to the nursing needs of people
  • Practices within own scope of practice 
  • Appropriately supervises and delegates aspects of practice to enrolled nurses and RUSONs, according to their scope of practice
Evaluates outcomes to inform nursing practice
  •  RN takes responsibility for the evaluation of practice based on agreed priorities, goals plans and outcomes and revises practice accordingly     

 

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For further information about this opportunity, click Apply to be redirected to the Peter Mac Careers page where you can review the position profile. Alternatively, please contact us for a confidential discussion.

 

 

Peter Mac is a child safe organisation and has a commitment to child safety and wellbeing.

 

 

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.