Nurse Unit Manager - Endoscopy
- Lead the Endoscopy team and ensure clinical standards are met.
- Manage staffing, service planning, and the unit's budget.
- Build effective relationships with stakeholders and lead infection prevention initiatives.
Nurse Unit Manager - Endoscopy
Location: Hobart, TAS
Employment Type: Full-Time, Permanent
Remuneration: From $137,332 to $146,975 + super under the Enterprise Agreement, depending on years of service
Recruiter: Carejobz Perioperative Specialists
Carejobz is recruiting a Nurse Unit Manager to lead the Endoscopy unit at a well-regarded private hospital in Hobart. The role suits a Registered Nurse with clinical management or leadership experience who is ready to take responsibility for a unit's people, service and budget.
About the Facility
A not-for-profit, mission-based private hospital in Hobart, Tasmania, providing perioperative and endoscopy services, with a strong focus on person-centred care.
The Role
Reporting to the Perioperative Services Manager, you will lead the Endoscopy team, including Registered Nurses, Enrolled Nurses, booking clerks and hospital assistants. You will be accountable for clinical standards, staffing, service planning and the unit's budget.
In this role, you will:
- Provide clinical leadership and oversight to the Endoscopy team
- Lead service strategy, operational planning and budget management
- Support, develop and performance-manage staff to build a high-performing team
- Roster staff to ensure safe staffing numbers and the right skill mix for the workload
- Lead infection prevention and control in the unit, including the audit and micro-testing programme for flexible scopes
- Meet accreditation requirements and lead the unit's work against the National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards
- Build and maintain effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders
What You Will Bring
- Current registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (AHPRA) as a Registered Nurse
- A minimum of five years' relevant clinical experience
- Relevant postgraduate qualifications, or demonstrated progress towards postgraduate study
- Demonstrated management, organisational and leadership skills
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- A commitment to best practice
- Computer literacy
- Full Australian working rights, or, for exceptional candidates from the UK, New Zealand, USA or Canada who meet every requirement above, eligibility for 482 visa sponsorship
Why You Will Want to Know More
- A permanent, full-time unit leadership role
- Remuneration under the Enterprise Agreement, with further pay increases scheduled under the agreement
- 482 visa sponsorship for exceptional candidates from the UK, New Zealand, USA or Canada who hold all the required experience and qualifications
- Not-for-profit salary packaging benefits
- Discounted health insurance and gym memberships
- Paid parental leave
- Training, development pathways and career opportunities
- Flexible hours that make sense for you
If this sounds like the kind of theatre opportunity you have been waiting for, we would love to speak with you. Apply in confidence through this link: ***************************************************************==, or email your CV to ***************** in the first instance. Kate or Paul will be happy to talk you through the opportunity, answer your questions honestly, and help you decide whether it feels like the right next step for you.
About Carejobz
At Carejobz, Paul and Kate have been recruiting perioperative professionals across Australia and New Zealand since 2015. Over that time, they have become trusted recruitment partners to leading hospitals and day surgeries, supporting nurses and employers with warmth, discretion and genuine sector knowledge. They understand the realities of theatre nursing, from the importance of team culture and safe staffing to the specialist skills required across anaesthetics, recovery, scrub and scout. When you speak with Carejobz, you are dealing with people who know the perioperative world, respect your experience, and will give you honest guidance at every stage.
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