Registered Nurse - Central Allocations Unit
Grampians Health Ballarat
- Ballarat, VIC
- $34.17-48.26 per hour
- Permanent
- Full-time
Central Allocations Unit – Casual Bank
YP2 – YP9About the role
We're on the lookout for Registered Nurses to join our versatile casual bank, ready to contribute their expertise across a spectrum of healthcare environments. As part of our team, you'll have the opportunity to work within our dynamic Care Communities, Sub-Acute, and Acute Services, encompassing specialised areas such as Maternity, Operating Suite, Special Care Nursery, Paediatrics, Emergency Department and Intensive Care Unit/Critical Care Unit.Managed by our Central Allocations Unit, which operates seven days a week, our casual bank offers flexibility and efficiency through an electronic rostering system. Shift assignments are tailored to match your availabilities, communicated via text or phone call. Upholding your position within our Central Allocations Unit requires a commitment of two shifts per fortnight.Living in the Ballarat region is essential due to the potential for short-notice shifts. To be considered, applicants must provide references from two direct managers/supervisors, including their current employer. Join us in delivering exceptional care across diverse healthcare settings, making a meaningful impact within our community.Key Responsibilities
- Maintaining accurate availability in our electronic rostering system and accepting shifts based on availability
- Caring for a diverse range of patients and residents in varied care settings
- Ability and willingness to provide high quality, direct care within scope of practice
- Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to achieve positive, patient focussed outcomes
- Documentation and updating of care plans / patient records
- Provide accurate and timely communication with residents, visitors and staff at all levels within Grampians Health
- Participate in annual performance reviews
- Commitment to ongoing mandatory education
- Registration as a Registered Nurse with AHPRA and hold a current Practicing Certificate
- Current NDIS Worker Screening Check, or willingness to obtain if working in Aged Care
- Current Working with Children Check, or willingness to obtain
- Demonstrated clinical knowledge and skills, commensurate with experience
- Ability to function within a team
Grampians Health provides healthcare to a large region at our campuses based in Ballarat, Dimboola, Edenhope, Horsham and Stawell.Our mission is to deliver sustainable healthcare tailored to evolving community and workforce needs. We strive to enhance services and careers, providing quality healthcare to rural and regional communities. Joining Grampians Health means being part of a diverse team, with a variety of career opportunities in acute, maternity, mental health, allied health, aged care and support services.Culture & Benefits
At Grampians Health, we recognise our staff are our greatest asset. We are committed to providing a safe and healthy environment for our staff, patients, residents, visitors, volunteers and contractors at all sites.
- Paid orientation
- Salary packaging for living expenses such as rent/mortgage plus meals, entertainment & holidays
- Staff rewards and recognition programs
Click APPLY or contact the CAU Recruitment Team on 5320 6577 for a confidential discussion.This position is paid in accordance with the Nurses and Midwives (Victorian Public Sector) (Single Interest Employers) Enterprise Agreement 2020 - 2024. The classification is Registered Nurse Grade 2 (YP2 - YP9) which ranges from $34.17 - $48.26 per hour.All appointments are subject to a satisfactory police records check, immunisation clearance and Working with Children check and/or NDIS Worker Screening Check.All employees must be willing and able to wear Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) when required, which at a minimum is a surgical mask. Additional PPE requirements are role-dependent.Grampians Health is a child safe organisation, committed to the safety and wellbeing of all children and young people.Grampians Health is committed to providing a diverse and inclusive workforce. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disability, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, mature age workers and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (or questioning), intersex and asexual (or allies) LGBTQIA+.Selection Criteria
- Desirable : Do you hold any Post Graduate qualifications specific to Nursing?
- Essential : Do you currently hold AHPRA Registration as a Registered Nurse? Please list your AHPRA Registration Number.
- Essential : Our casual bank staff are frequently required to fill shifts with little/short notice. Please detail your current availability, and how many shifts per week are you able to commit to?
- Essential : Describe a time when you went above and beyond your job requirements to achieve an objective. (Looking for: the situation, what you did, why you did it and what the outcome was).
- Essential : Describe a situation in which you identified a problem and took action to correct it rather than wait for someone else to do so. (Looking for: the situation, what you did, why you did it and what the outcome was).
- Essential : Tell us about something you've done to encourage a peer/coworker to take responsibility for improving their own work standards. (Looking for: the situation, what you did, why you did it and what the outcome was).
- Essential : What does person centered care mean to you? Can you provide us with a specific example of a time when you demonstrated person centered care?
- Essential : Tell us what each of the following values mean to you and provide a specific example of a time when you demonstrated each value at work? Respect, Accountability, Innovation, Collaboration and Compassion.
- Essential : Have you received three doses of a COVID19 vaccine? If no, please provide further detail regarding doses received, booking dates and/or other relevant information.
- Essential : The successful candidate must hold, or be prepared to undergo, a NDIS screening check. Please advise if you currently hold an NDIS screening check?
- Essential : The successful candidate must hold, or be prepared to undergo, an employee Working with Children Check (WWCC). Please advise if you currently hold an employee WWCC?
Please ensure your application is added before this time as we do not accept late applications.