At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead and coordinate patient care in operating theatres, ensuring high-quality outcomes.
- Company: Join the progressive team at Shoalhaven Memorial Hospital, a key healthcare provider.
- Benefits: Enjoy competitive salary, salary packaging, fitness discounts, and career development opportunities.
- Other info: Be part of a significant $440M redevelopment, enhancing healthcare delivery in the region.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in patient care while advancing your nursing leadership skills.
- Qualifications: AHPRA registration and relevant qualifications or experience in perioperative nursing required.
The predicted salary is between 143997 - 143997 $ per year.
Be pivotal to the coordination of patient care, ward management and leadership of the professions of nursing and midwifery.
Join Shoalhaven Memorial Hospital as a Nurse Unit Manager Level 1 – Perioperative Services, where you’ll play a pivotal role in coordinating elective and emergency operating theatre activity, leading nursing teams and driving efficient, high-quality patient care. Working collaboratively with anaesthetists and multidisciplinary teams, you’ll help maximise theatre utilisation, minimise delays and cancellations, and ensure services run smoothly while maintaining the highest standards of safety and clinical excellence.
This is an exciting opportunity to showcase your leadership, strengthen team performance and make a meaningful difference to patient outcomes in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
A little about us: Shoalhaven Memorial Hospital is the main referral hospital for the Shoalhaven region, providing emergency care, medical, surgical, mental health and orthopaedic services. The hospital has an Intensive Care Unit focusing on ventilated, high dependency and coronary patients, Children’s Ward and Maternity Unit, as well as a purpose‑built regional Cancer Care Centre. The hospital is currently undergoing a significant $440M redevelopment that will redefine how healthcare is delivered within the Region.
Benefits:
- Allocated Days Off (ADO) - once a month take a paid day off (eligible full‑time employees)
- Salary packaging - less tax and more take‑home pay
- Novated leasing - lease a car and pay for all running costs out of your pre‑taxed salary (eligible full‑time employees)
- Fitness Passport - discounted gym membership that both you and your family can enjoy (eligible employees)
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP) - free confidential and professional assistance for staff and their families
- Career progression, professional development and secondment opportunities
Essential Requirements:
- Applicable vaccination requirements for a Category A role.
- Working With Children Check (WWCC)
- Current AHPRA Registration
- Relevant post graduate qualifications in Perioperative Nursing, clinical leadership or management or working towards same; or alternatively relevant work experience or combination of qualification and work experience
ISLHD is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. ISLHD is dedicated to fostering a child‑safe environment that respects and upholds the rights of children and young people, aligned with NSW Health’s commitment to implementing the Child Safe Standards.
Nurse Unit Manager - Level 1 - Operating Theatres in Nowra employer: Illawarra Shoalhaven Local Health District
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Illawarra Shoalhaven Local Health District Recruitment Team
