Join the Nursing Team at Barwon Health as a Registered Undergraduate Student of Nursing (RUSON)

• Work while you study!
• Career learning and development opportunity
• Work collaboratively with multidisciplinary team

About the facility

Barwon health is the major regional health provider for the Barwon South West region. It is Victoria’s largest regional health service with one of the busiest hospitals in the state, University Hospital. We serve over 500,000 people through the efforts of over 7,000 staff and more than 1000 volunteers. We provide care at all stages or life and circumstance through a wide range of services from emergency and acute to mental health, primary care, community services, aged care, and subacute/rehabilitation. Care is provided to the community through over 23 key locations throughout the region.

About the role

We are currently building our workforce in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, if you are currently enrolled at a university and you are a year 2^nd or 3^rd year nursing student we’d love to hear from you.

To be considered for the position of RUSON you must hold registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency as a student nurse, and who at commencement, has successfully completed not less than 12 months of the Bachelor of Nursing degree.

The successful applicant upon commencement will provided with education and orientation that will ensure you are work ready.

As a RUSON you will work in acute or subacute care and aged care settings as part of the healthcare team, helping nurses to provide patient care. RUSONs will work under the delegation and supervision of registered nursing staff, and may help with a range of activities such as patients’ daily living activities (personal hygiene and mobility) whilst keeping the ward organised and safe. In addition the RUSON will be required to undertake some basic administration.

About the culture

You will have the opportunity to be part of a highly skilled, professional, friendly and dedicated workforce who take pride in providing high quality service. You will have support and guidance from fellow team members and management who exhibit our Barwon Health values, respect, compassion, commitment, accountability and innovation.

Barwon Health staff benefits

• Flexible working arrangements
• Professional development
• Access to employee wellness facility
• Salary packaging
• Social club

At Barwon Health we harness a diverse and inclusive workforce where we value each person’s uniqueness. We will 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.

Our organisation promotes the safety, wellbeing and inclusion of our staff and consumers including children, and have appropriate recruitment resources in place to ensure background checks and reference checks are completed.

At Barwon Health we are committed to providing positive employment opportunities and outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and welcome employment applications from candidates of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander background.

We Barwon Health is proud to be Totally Smoke Free.