Position Details


Reference Number 148283
Position Title Registered Nurse Grade 2 (Inpatient Rehabilitation Centre)
Employment Status Permanent Part Time
Program Community Health & Rehab Operating
Location McKellar Centre
Salary $0.00
Hours Per Fortnight 48
Position Summary
  • Be recognised - Join a fabulous multidisciplinary team that embraces innovation
  • Be challenged - Build your career and gain invaluable experience
  • Be your best -  Stimulating working environment within Victoria’s largest regional healthcare service
  • Be the heart of Barwon Health - Join a dedicated team with Victoria’s 2014 Clinical training award winner

About the facility

Barwon Health’s McKellar Centre is located only minutes from the centre of Geelong. It is situated on a vibrant community asset with parkland surrounds and incorporates state of the art equipment. The centre offers a range of rehabilitation services that enable people to make a dynamic recovery. It is a 100 bed inpatient facility offering rehabilitation in palliative care, Geriatric Evaluation and Management, stroke, trauma, orthopaedic and amputee service. At the Inpatient Rehabilitation Centre, we offer focused professional development with dedicated nursing educators on site, set within new state-of-the-art facilities.

About the role

Do you have a passion for Geriatric Evaluation and Management nursing and are dedicated to providing quality, patient focused care? If so, Barwon Health now has a position available for a Grade 2 Registered Nurses within its Inpatient Rehabilitation Centre in North Geelong. You will have the opportunity to be part of a highly skilled, professional, friendly and dedicated team who take pride in providing a high quality service. In this role you will assist in the planning and delivery of a high quality service within Barwon Health’s Medical Service. As the Registered Nurse you will be responsible for the provision of patient / client / resident focused holistic nursing care to those assigned to you, in order to achieve desired clinical outcomes. As the successful candidate you will need to demonstrate a sound level of nursing skills.

About the culture

We are a fun, passionate, supportive, energetic, driven team who works cohesively together.  We promote professional development in the workplace and as a team are focussed on the provision of quality patient centred care.  We are a team that embraces change and are always looking for innovative ideas to improve our team and the organisation.

Barwon Health staff benefits

If this sounds like the opportunity you have been waiting for, then apply today and join our dynamic and innovative organisation. 

At Barwon Health we celebrate and harness diversity, and consider it a competitive advantage. We encourage applications from all diverse backgrounds and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders are encouraged to apply. Our organisation promotes the safety, wellbeing and inclusion of all our consumers including children and appropriate rigorous reference and background checks will be undertaken.  

Recruitment agencies should note that Barwon Health does not accept agency resumes. Barwon Health is not responsible for any fees related to any unsolicited resumes submitted by Recruitment Agencies.

Selection Criteria Essential: Registration with AHPRA as Registered Nurse
Essential: Well-developed communication and interpersonal skills
Essential: Demonstrated commitment to the provision of care, which focuses on the patient and their family
Essential: Demonstrated commitment to the provision of continuity of care embraced by continuity of philosophy and continuity of information and advice given
Essential: Commitment to flexibility and innovation in practice including an evidence-based approach to care
Essential: Works within safe practice principles and emonstrates sound level of nursing skills
Desirable: Recent expereince caring for GEM patients
Contact Person Christopher McCormick 
Contact Person Job Title Nurse Unit Manager 
Contact Number (03) 4215 5959 
Closing Date 10/10/2016
Position Description
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Please note that this position will close at 11:45pm on closing date. Please ensure your application is added before then as we do not accept late applications.