At a Glance
- Tasks: Provide specialist clinical care and support for epilepsy patients across various settings.
- Company: Join a leading teaching hospital dedicated to compassionate neurological care.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, wellbeing initiatives, professional development, and fitness discounts.
- Other info: Dynamic team environment with a focus on continuous improvement and inclusivity.
- Why this job: Make a real difference in patients' lives while advancing your nursing career.
- Qualifications: Registered Nurse with AHPRA registration and experience in neuroscience or epilepsy nursing.
The predicted salary is between 102281 - 125011 $ per year.
Contract position | Casual position
Fitzroy location
Friendly and supportive team environment
Permanent 32 hours/week
About the Role
The Epilepsy Clinical Nurse Consultant (CNC) will provide specialist clinical care, patient consultation, advanced nursing leadership, education and care coordination for patients managed by the Comprehensive Epilepsy Program. The role provides continuity of care across emergency, inpatient and outpatient settings, ensuring patients receive timely, coordinated and evidence-based care throughout their epilepsy journey. The CNC acts as a consistent point of contact for patients, carers and healthcare professionals, facilitates progression through complex care pathways including epilepsy surgery, supports multidisciplinary team (MDT) decision-making, and contributes to service development, quality improvement and staff education.
- Provide longitudinal care consultation and care coordination for patients with complex epilepsy across outpatient, inpatient and emergency settings.
- Act as a designated epilepsy resource for patients requiring non-urgent clinical advice using agreed service communication pathways.
- Coordinate patients progressing through the epilepsy surgery pathways (including stereo-EEG), ensuring timely completion of required investigations and multidisciplinary review.
Your Contribution
- Registered Nurse with current AHPRA registration
- National Police Check
- Post Graduate Qualification in relevant discipline
- Demonstrated experience in neuroscience or epilepsy nursing.
What we Offer
- A focus on wellbeing initiatives, with regular events and programs
- Confidential, solutions-focused employee counselling
- A healthy work-life balance encouraged
- Ability to join Fitness Passport
- Your pass to an extensive choice of fitness facilities
- Salary Packaging - Increase your take home pay!
- In the heart of Fitzroy, CBD at our doorstep, close to some of Melbourne's best cafes, public transport
- Discounts and Promotions always available through our Foundation
- Regular opportunities for professional development to assist you to reach your career goals
- Culture of continuous improvement
About The Department of Neurosciences
The Department of Neurosciences is dedicated to delivering excellent, evidence-based and compassionate neurological care to Victorian patients from metropolitan, regional and nearby interstate areas. Clinical Neurosciences is a multidisciplinary unit dedicated to improving the understanding and treatment of neurological disorders. The unit provides a complete clinical and diagnostic service and maintains a strong research focus; principally centred on epilepsy, multiple sclerosis and movement disorders.
Working at 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. Inclusion is essential to our mission and diversity reflects the community we serve.
This position is subject to a Victorian government direction regarding vaccination against COVID-19. Successful applicants must meet these vaccination requirements.
Closing Date: 10 September 2026 11:59pm
Reconciliation Action Plan: 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.
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