About this role
Monash Health is a great place to work.
Monash Health is Victoria’s largest and most comprehensive health service. For more than 170 years, Monash Health and its predecessors have provided safe, high-quality healthcare and service for people at every life stage.
To see first-hand what our colleagues think about working here, take a look at the following short videos: monashhealth.org/careers.
Our Journey
In January 2024 Monash Children’s Hospital opened a brand new Early Parenting Centre (EPC) in Casey, providing specialist support for Victorian families with children from birth to four years of age. The centre will deliver flexible, targeted services that aim to enhance the parent-child relationship and will support parents with strategies to achieve their parenting goals in areas such as sleep and settling, child behaviour and parent and child health and wellbeing. The EPC provides the following core services to Victorian families:
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Residential services – 24-hour multi-day centre-based intensive early parenting programs
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Day-stay service – centre-based day programs provided at EPCs or at outreach locations
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Community visits– follow on service from day stay or residential and occasionally in place of a day stay program if appropriate.
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Telehealth and web-based services as a stand-alone or complementary modality.
The centre at Casey houses 4 day stay beds along with 10 overnight beds and is supported by a wide multidisciplinary team striving for positive outcomes for Victorian families.
About You
If you are an experienced and compassionate Registered Nurse or Midwife with a passion for early parenting and infant care, we encourage you to apply for this Nurse Manager role at the Early Parenting Centre. As the NM in the EPC, you will have strong leadership and organisational skills and be confident taking a leading role within a team of Registered Nurses, Registered Midwives, Enrolled Nurses and Early Parenting Practitioners (EPPs).
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You understand the unique challenges faced in early parenting and you pride yourself on your ability to build strong relationships with those you support
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You have previous experience leadership roles
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You are passionate about having an impact on the early health and wellbeing outcomes for families
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You enjoy working with a multidisciplinary team, both internally and externally, to promote positive health outcomes for families
You are an experienced and enthusiastic nurse leader who is ready to take the next step in their career. You are dynamic and self-motivated, able to work independently, whilst excelling in consulting and working collaboratively within a compassionate, dedicated, and vibrant multi-disciplinary team to deliver positive results. Furthermore, you are easily identified as an excellent nursing role model and are relentless in your quest to ensure safety for patients and your team.
What You Need
Post graduate qualification in Paediatric Nursing/ Midwifery/ Mental Health Nursing /Community nursing/ Maternal and Child Health Nursing is essential. Holding dual qualifications in both Nursing and Midwifery is desirable.
Leadership and Management experience in:
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Early Parenting Centres
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child and family health
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working with vulnerable and/or at risk children and families
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working with high needs children and families
In Return
This is an exciting opportunity to continue to grow and develop the program at the Early Parenting Centre for Monash Health. You will have the unique opportunity to be part of an expanding multidisciplinary team who has built a supporting, nurturing and culturally sensitive environment. We offer an in-depth orientation programme and strongly support staff development in our quest to strive for excellence in our delivery of care.
For a confidential discussion and to explore the opportunity further, Jacqueline Hopley- Director of Nursing - Casey Early Parenting Centre on 0433 800 119.
Position Description can be found here.
Additional Position Description can be found here.
We recognise the value of equal employment opportunity. We are committed to patient safety, promoting fairness, equity and diversity in the workplace and to Child Safe Standards. At Monash Health we are relentless in our pursuit of excellence and work to our six guiding principles and our five ICare values.
How to Apply
Applications are accepted via the Monash Health online EHub system. For information including how to apply and probity check requirements, please click here for the ‘Application Guide’
Applications will be screened upon receipt and selection activity may commence prior to the closing date.
Applications close: Wednesday 4th February, 11.59pm
Other facts
About Monash Health
Monash Health is Victoria, Australia’s largest and most comprehensive health service.
We deliver care for people over their entire lifespan, from pre-birth to end-of-life, providing consolidated, integrated, comprehensive, and often highly complex care.
With 25,500 employees, Monash Health provides care to south-eastern metropolitan Melbourne and rural Victoria via telehealth, within local communities, and in people’s homes.
Our major hospitals include Monash Medical Centre, Monash Children’s Hospital, Dandenong Hospital, Casey Hospital, and the newly opened Victorian Heart Hospital, which is Australia’s first dedicated cardiac hospital. Monash Health provides significant care at Moorabbin Hospital, the Kingston Centre, and the Cranbourne Integrated Community Care Centre, and in total, they operate more than 40 care locations.
Monash Health is uniquely positioned as a large-scale, publicly funded health service that improves the health outcomes of their community. Annually, we provide more than 3.6 million episodes of care and deliver more than 10,000 babies.
We’re committed to being a fair, equitable, and non-discriminatory workplace that maximises the talent, potential, and contribution of all employees. With such a wide range of locations and specialties, we’ll proudly help you grow your career in healthcare.
What you'll do
- As the Nurse Manager, you will lead a team of healthcare professionals to provide specialist support for families with young children. You will be responsible for enhancing parent-child relationships and supporting parents in achieving their parenting goals.
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