• Excellent benefits including salary packaging
• Truganina location
• Full time, Fixed term until 30th of June 2027
About the Role
The Clinical Coordinator supports the St John’s Nurse Unit Manager (NUM) and is primarily responsible for managing the nursing workforce and clinical operations of St John’s. The primary focus is on ensuring a high quality, evidence based and proactive provision of health care services that promotes a patient-centred approach to care.
1. Provide clinical leadership, mentoring, and practical support to the nursing workforce, fostering a culture of professional development and continuous learning.
2. Lead the planning, delivery, and evaluation of education programs, ensuring staff are competent in safe clinical practice and familiar with local operational policies, procedures, and processes
3. Oversee the implementation of a comprehensive orientation program for all new staff, tailored to the unique requirements of the correctional health environment.
4. Participate in and/or lead multidisciplinary meetings, case conferences, ward rounds, and other forums for collaborative care planning.
5. Contribute to continuous quality improvement initiatives within the St John’s team, including incident management, risk mitigation, and clinical safety.
Classifications for this position will be ZJ4 ($113,646.00 pro rata per annum)
Your Contribution
What we Offer
• Confidential, solutions-focused employee counselling
• A healthy work/life balance encouraged. Full time employment comes with a monthly Accrued Day Off (additional day off per month!)
• Salary Packaging – Increase your take home pay!
• Free car parking
• Regular opportunities for professional development to assist you to reach your career goals
• Culture of continuous improvement
St John's Sub-Acute Inpatient Unit
St Vincent’s Correctional Health Service (SVCHS) operates across 3 key areas:
• St John’s Subacute Inpatient Unit located within Port Phillip Prison. St John's is a 20 bed sub-acute inpatient unit
• St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne (SVHM), Fitzroy including St Augustine’s Acute Secure Ward, Specialist clinic liaison for correctional patients
• SVHM State-wide Hepatitis program
Working at St Vincent’s
St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne (SVHM) is a leading teaching, research and tertiary health service. SVHM provides a diverse range of adult clinical services and is driven by values of Compassion, Justice, Integrity and Excellence.
Application
Please attach your resume and cover letter to your application.
Shortlisting for this position will commence immediately. We encourage you to apply promptly as the advertisement may close early should a suitable applicant be sourced.
We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and abilities. Inclusion is essential to our mission and diversity reflects the community we serve.
Please visit our website, for further information regarding our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Employment at SVHM.
SVHA has a duty of care under work health and safety legislation to eliminate and/or control the risk of transmission of vaccine preventable diseases in healthcare settings. You may therefore be required to undergo mandatory immunisations/vaccinations (including flu vaccinations).
This position is subject to a Victorian government direction regarding vaccination against COVID-19. Successful applicants must meet these vaccination requirements. Please contact us if you would like to know more.
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At St Vincent's we acknowledge the importance of creating a work environment that is welcoming, safe, equitable and inclusive for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Employees. As part of our Commitment to Reconciliation and Closing the Gap in employment related outcomes, we encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples.
For further information, visit https /www.svha.org.au/about-us/reconciliation or get in contact at indigenouscareers@svha.org.au
View Reconciliation Action Plan
The Royal Children's Hospital (RCH) has been providing outstanding care for Victoria's children and their families for over 147 years.
We are the major specialist paediatric hospital in Victoria and our care extends to children from Tasmania, southern New South Wales and other states around Australia and overseas.
With a passionate, highly skilled and committed staff campus wide of over 5,000, we provide a full range of clinical services, tertiary care and health promotion and prevention programs for children and young people.
We are the designated state-wide major trauma centre for paediatrics in Victoria and a Nationally Funded Centre for cardiac and liver transplantation.
When it comes to training and research we partner with the very best. Our campus partners, the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute (MCRI) and The University of Melbourne Department of Paediatrics, along with the RCH Foundation, are on site with the hospital in Parkville. Together, we are committed to improving the health outcomes for children today and in the future.
In 2016–17, more than 85,654 children attended our Emergency Department, 322,291 specialist clinic appointments were held which was almost 70,000 more than the previous year, more than 17,000 surgeries were performed and more than 48,552 children were admitted to our wards.
