Associate Nurse Unit Manager
An exciting opportunity exists for an experienced Nurse Unit Manager to join the team at The Footbridge, St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne.
Summary about this job
Nursing - Management
Company: St. Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne (Ltd)
Location: Melbourne
Work type: Full Time
Salary: n\a
Phone: +61-3-7875-2181
Fax: +61-8-8583-1565
E-mail: n\a
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Detail information about job Associate Nurse Unit Manager. Terms and conditions vacancy
- Permanent Full-time
- Mental Health - Community Care Unit - North Fitzroy
- Excellent benefits including salary packaging
About the Department
The Footbridge Community Care Unit (CCU) through a multidisciplinary team approach provides ongoing specialist treatment and support to meet the identified needs of consumers who suffer with a serious mental illness and associated high level of disability in the City of Yarra and Boroondara.
About the Role
You will provide a high standard of clinical assessment, treatment, and support to consumers and carers. You will also deliver case management using the Strengths Model a recovery recovery-orientated approach to an identified caseload and psychiatric nursing specific interventions. You will provide shift leadership to the team, demonstrate discipline specific and recovery-focused case management expertise, and provide supervision to staff and students.
Duties
- Coordinate and manage the shift to ensure the provision of high quality consumer-focused care
- Provide leadership, act as a role model to staff and coordinate the allocation of resources on the shift to meet the needs of patients
- Provide clinical supervision to RPN 1's and RPN 2's, RPN students, PENs and any other program staff, and allocate tasks on the basis of the available staff‘s knowledge and skills
- Undertake nursing assessments and independently institute nursing care for consumers
- Undertake mental, social and physical assessments of consumers that will lead to recommendation of a course of action being taken
- Assist consumers to identify their support needs, to utilise and strengthen existing support networks and to build new support networks were required
- Assess the level of urgency in situations of a consumer’s psychiatric or physical deterioration and undertake a course of action to resolve or ameliorate the situation accordingly
- Under the direction of the manager undertake other activities that are within the scope of practice for a person functioning at a RPN3 ANUM level
Qualifications, Skills and Experience
- Certificate, Diploma, or Degree in nursing which meets the registration requirements of AHPRA, Division 1 or 3, and a current Practicing Certificate.
- Post registration qualification in relevant area of specialty.
- Minimum of 2 years post qualification experience in mental health.
- Must have a current Victorian driver’s licence.
Benefits
- Salary Packaging
- Employee Assistance Program
- Staff Health Centre
- Staff Car Park
All appointments are made subject to the candidate providing a current satisfactory National Police Certificate conducted by The Victoria Police.
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