Nurse Unit Manager, Intensive Care Unit

NSW Health; Sydney; On-site; AUD 112,000 - 139,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discounted onsite parking

Fitness Passport

Employee Assistance Programs

Education centre access

Job summary

NSW Health is seeking an experienced Nurse Unit Manager Level 1 to lead the ICU at Northern Beaches Hospital. You will provide strong clinical and operational leadership, supporting and developing the nursing team to deliver exceptional, safe and compassionate care in a modern facility.

You will oversee day-to-day operations, champion high standards of patient safety, collaborate with medical staff and drive continuous improvement in a busy intensive care environment.

Qualifications

• Current APHRA registration as RN Division 1.
• Management qualification or equivalent experience.
• Proven ability to lead a clinical team and manage change.

Responsibilities

• Lead the ICU nursing team and provide clinical and operational leadership.
• Champion patient safety, clinical excellence and patient-centred care.
• Oversee day-to-day operational management of the unit.
• Build a positive, collaborative and accountable team culture.
• Support staff education, professional development and continuous improvement.
• Work with multidisciplinary colleagues to deliver outstanding care.

Skills

Leadership

People management

Communication

Roster management

EMR knowledge

Microsoft Office

Education

Registered Nurse – Division 1 (APHRA)

Management qualification

Job description

Lead with expertise. Inspire your team. Make a difference when it matters most. We’re looking for an experienced and passionate Nurse Unit Manager Level 1 to support and lead our Intensive Care Unit at Northern Beaches Hospital.

Employment Type:PermanentFull Time
Position Classification:Nurse Unit Manager Level 1
Remuneration:$2,759.70 per week
Hours Per Week:38
Requisition ID:REQ699879

This is an opportunity to support and lead a highly skilled nursing team caring for some of our most critically unwell patients within a modern, purpose-built hospital. Our ICU provides general and cardiothoracic intensive care within a hospital offering emergency, surgical, cardiac, interventional, oncology, renal and specialist services.

About the role

As NUM Level 1, you’ll provide strong clinical and operational leadership to the ICU, creating an environment where the team feels supported to deliver exceptional, safe and compassionate care.

You will:

• Lead, support and develop the ICU nursing team
• Champion high standards of patient safety, clinical excellence and patient-centred care
• Oversee the day-to-day operational management of the unit
• Build a positive, collaborative and accountable team culture
• Support staff education, professional development and continuous improvement
• Work closely with nursing, medical and multidisciplinary colleagues to deliver outstanding care

We’re looking for a leader who brings together strong critical care expertise with genuine people leadership. Someone who can build relationships, develop others and lead confidently through the challenges of a busy ICU environment.

Why join us at Northern Beaches Hospital?

Located in Frenchs Forest, Northern Beaches Hospital is a purpose-built, state-of-the-art hospital serving the Northern Beaches community. The facility offers 488 beds and a broad range of acute and specialist services.

For our people, it also means the opportunity to:

• Lead in an impressive critical care environment, with a 20-bed general and cardiothoracic ICU.
• Work with fantastic facilities including an education centre, staff facilities, café and onsite parking.
• Enjoy practical employee benefits, including discounted onsite parking, Fitness Passport and Employee Assistance Programs.
• Work somewhere pretty special, with the hospital located on Sydney’s Northern Beaches and public bus services stopping outside the hospital.

Most importantly, this is your opportunity to help shape a team, influence the future of critical care nursing and lead a service where great leadership has a real impact on patients, families and staff every day. If you’re an experienced ICU nurse leader who cares just as much about your people as you do about exceptional patient care, we’d love to hear from you.

Who we are

We are a health service that touches thousands of lives across the Northern Sydney Local Health District, together as a team of like-minded people. We are passionate, driven and have the skills and knowledge to care for our patients whilst creating the best services possible. Our teams have meaningful, interesting and rewarding work everyday. We challenge and nurture each other, sharing our knowledge and experience so that we can deliver better care for everyone There’s a real sense of belonging here because we value and respect our patients, employees, and teams’ voices. You’ll feel a real privilege being a trusted caregiver in our patients, their families, their carers, and our communities’ lives.

The NSLHD Nursing and Midwifery Workforce will be compassionate, competent, confident, contemporary, capable and committed to leading person-centred health care.

People of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander background are encouraged to apply.

The team enriching health in millions of ways every day.

• Consistently demonstrates behaviours that reinforce the CORE Values of our organisation; Collaboration, Openness, Respect and Empowerment. Demonstrates these behaviours with all stakeholders; colleagues, direct reports, as well as our patients and consumers, and those that care for them.
• Registered Nurse-Division 1 with Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (APHRA) AND Relevant management tertiary qualification OR equivalent work experience, OR a combination of study and work experience; and demonstrated commitment to professional development.
• Demonstrated ability to work both independently and in a team environment.
• Demonstrated ability to lead, manage and support a clinical team.
• Demonstrated excellence in written and verbal communication skills and computer literacy in Microsoft Applications, roster management systems and electronic medical records.
• Demonstrated knowledge and/or experience in change management and initiating a new service delivery model within an established service.
• Evidence of and commitment to patient/customer focussed care, clinical governance and quality improvement.