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Line up your life and career with us at Barwon Health in Victoria, Australia

The 12 month Transition to Emergency Nursing Program at Barwon Health aims to:

• Further develop the confidence and advanced competence of the emergency nurse within a supportive clinical setting.
• Develop the specialised knowledge and skills required to ensure safety and quality of emergency care.
• Ensure development of core foundational and advanced skills and knowledge to enable safe delivery of care.
• Participants will develop and demonstrate the capacity to problem solve and think critically in the Emergency Department clinical environment.
• Participants will demonstrate an alignment of clinical and theoretical knowledge while planning and implementing the care of the patient requiring emergency care.

About the facility

Barwon Health is one of the largest regional health services in Victoria, providing care for approximately 80,000 emergency presentations per year. The emergency department have both an adult and paediatric short stay unit to ensure consumers receive the right care, at the right place at the right time.

Under Barwon Health’s emergency model of care patients are streamed to dedicated assessment areas including fast track, adult, paediatric, resuscitation, trauma and mental health areas. Our mission is to improve access and patient flow to provide a sustainable service that ensures high quality, safe, people-focused care.

 About the role

The ED Transition to Speciality program is a 12-month program in which you will be employed a minimum of four shift per week. A comprehensive orientation to the ED will be provided including supernumerary shifts in your initial transition to the program.

The first 6 months aims to build on your knowledge via online content and face-to-face study days and clinical support. This aims to enhance and extend your practice as well as a structured clinical progression program. Topics

The second 6 months of the program is to transition your clinical knowledge into clinical practice. Concepts explored will include comprehensive patient assessment of adults and paediatrics, introduction to ECG interpretation and high dependency nursing care skills, including non-invasive ventilation and management of invasive monitoring. The aim is to transition into working in the resuscitation area with the support of the ED education Team.

About the culture

The emergency department has a growing culture of innovation and change.  The smarter, easier, safe and better ways of doing things that result in more satisfaction for the staff, patients and their families. You will work with an innovative team who maintain extensive knowledge and experience. Our dedicated and experienced team pride themselves on providing high quality patient centred care in an environment that has modern, well-equipped facilities.

What we offer 

• Excellent working conditions with a high sense of job satisfaction 
• Located in the centre of Geelong's CBD is an easy commute from all suburbs
• Flexible working arrangements – speak to us about hours ,days or shifts that suit your lifestyle
• Access to employee wellness facility
• A genuine community feel - we look after each other 
• Wide range of professional development that enhances your careers
• Ability to take leave without pay and purchase additional leave
• Doorstep to the Great Ocean Road, Bellarine Peninsula and the Surf Coast
• Attractive salary packaging benefits! Living Expenses capped at $9,010 which  includes repayments on mortgages, credit cards, personal loans and rental payments and Meal Entertainment & Accommodation capped at $2,650 which includes food and drink consumed in a social or entertainment settings and some accommodation expenditure
• To find out more about the Geelong region, visit our Moving to the Region page on the Barwon Health website. 
• Enjoy a range of lifestyle choices including inner city, coastal, suburban and rural homes at affordable prices.

Diversity and Inclusion

We embrace diverse life experiences and the perspectives of our people, whilst providing high-quality health care to all members of our community, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, religion, cultural background, disability, or sexual orientation.

We are strongly committed to the safety and wellbeing of all children and young people. Click here for further information on the Victorian Government’s Child Safe Standards: About Child Safe Standards | Victorian Government (www.vic.gov.au) we are also proud to be Totally Smoke Free.