Graduate Certificate in Nursing Practice (Paediatrics)

• Gain invaluable experience in paediatric nursing and build your career
• Temporary part time position - 64 hours per fortnight (until 28/01/2018)
• Work within our newly renovated Children’s Ward located at University Hospital Geelong
• Be recognised, Be challenged, Be your best. Be the heart of Barwon Health

About Barwon Health

University Hospital Geelong’s Children’s Ward is a vibrant, 28-bed general paediatric unit caring for infants, children and adolescents with a variety of medical and surgical conditions. The newly-renovated, family-oriented unit allows for parents and carers to stay and be actively involved with their child’s care during the admission. All rooms have accompanying bathroom en suites and sofa beds and there is a spacious parents room available complete with breakfast-making facilities, couches and television.

About the role

The Graduate Certificate in Nursing Practice, University of Melbourne (Paediatrics) is a 50 credit point, part-time, clinical coursework program of one year's duration. Students typically take four 12.5 credit point subjects across a year. Admission is based on a Bachelor of Nursing degree (or equivalent training). The course delivers theoretical content through a combination of on-line study and face to face course delivery at the partner hospital for the clinical speciality. The students’ employing hospital provides clinical practice in a hospital setting. Students complete 50 credit points of study part-time, over a year, commencing in January with an on-line subject, completing a face to face subject at the partner hospital each semester and a supervised clinical practice subject at their employing hospital across the whole study period. Compulsory Applied Pathophysiology online component starts date beginning of January then a further 9 Study days a year.

About the culture

Our dedicated and experienced medical, nursing and allied health team pride themselves on providing high quality family centred care in an environment that has modern, well-equipped facilities.

Barwon Health staff benefits

• Flexible working arrangements
• Professional development
• Access to employee wellness facility
• Salary packaging
• Social club
• Be our future Barwon Health Strategic Plan

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. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders are encouraged to apply.

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.