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“Nursing is a profession with endless opportunities. I love the fast pace of acute nursing, and being able to think and learn on your feet every single day. Working within every acute area of the hospital allows me to build my own clinical knowledge and consolidate my nursing skills within a broad range of clinical and specialty areas. Being on the part-time pool within the Central Resource Unit enables me flexibility within my nursing practice and has allowed me to progress my career as the hospital float nurse, as well as broadening my opportunities within rural and remote nursing.” - Kiara Eastgate, Nursing Pool
About the Access and Resource / Central Resource Unit
The Access and Resource Unit (ARU) provide staffing resources twenty four hours a day seven days a week across the clinical bed based units of Barwon Health by utilising nursing and support staff to cover planned and emergent shortfalls within the service. The Central Resource Unit (CRU) specifically provide staffing resources to meet the everyday needs of clinical units for nursing and support staff for bed based units across Barwon Health.
About our Casual Nursing Bank
The Casual Nursing Bank at Barwon Health is resourced using Registered Nurses, Registered Midwives with dual registration and Endorsed Enrolled Nurses. The casual bank allows staff to forward plan and take advantage of shifts at short notice, casual staff members have the opportunity to work across a range of sites and a variety of speciality bed based services which align with qualifications skills and experience. The units/departments who utilise bank staff include:
Acute
- Heath Wing 2 – Acute Neuroscience Unit
- Heath Wing 3 – Paediatrics, Medical, Surgical, Orthopaedics, ENT
- Heath Wing 4 – Short Stay Surgical
- Heath Wing 5 – Plastics, Vascular, ENT, Gynaecological
- Heath Wing 6 – Surgical Ward
- Heath Wing 7 – Medical Ward, Respiratory Diseases
- Baxter Wing 5 – Orthopaedics
- Baxter Wing 6 – Oncology, Haematology
- Baxter Wing 7 – Medicine, Endocrinology and Infectious Diseases
- Birdsey Wing 7 – Rapid Assessment and Planning Unit, Medical Unit
- Bellarine Centre 6 North – Medical, Renal, Gastric and Chronic Pain
- Bellarine Centre 6 South – Antenatal/Post Natal
- Bellarine Centre 5 – Cardiac Services
- Intensive Care Unit
- Emergency Department
- Perioperative Services, Gretta Volum Day Stay Unit, Main Theatre and Surgical Hub
McKellar Centre
- Inpatient Rehabilitation
- Palliative Care
- Residential Aged Care
Our web based allocation system Shiftmatch will offer shifts according to your skills, location, preferences and availability allowing flexibility between your work and lifestyle. Shiftmatch provides fair and equitable allocation of shifts and uses mobile SMS technology to confirm shift location and times.
About our Nursing Pool
The Nursing pool at Barwon Health is resourced using permanent Registered Nurses and Endorsed Enrolled Nurses. In order to achieve a safe working environment for all, staff are recruited to three separate pools depending on expertise and past clinical experience. The nursing pools include:
- Aged Care
- Inpatient Rehabilitation Centre
- Acute Inpatient
Rostering for Pool staff is maintained across a twenty four hour roster in adequate numbers to ensure patient, employee and organisational needs. The rostering system maintained through the CRU allows staff to request and have an input into their rosters.
To ensure a timely notification to staff, rosters are published fortnightly for four weeks, two weeks in advance and allows all employees on the Pool to work on a rotating roster whereby staff are required to work approximately 30% night shifts and 50% weekends.
About you
We are looking for staff who are highly motivated and are focused on excellence in patient centred care and have a passion for the delivery of best practice in nursing care.
We want you to thrive off working in a variety of multidisciplinary units on an ad hoc basis, to enjoy a flexible and healthy work/life balance with varied working hours and to expand on your clinical knowledge skills and abilities within our leading health service.
To be successful for this role you will have:
- Bachelor’s Degree with a recognised Educational Institution / Diploma of Nursing with a recognised Educational Institution
- Registration with Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA)
- Minimum one Years’ Experience in your Aged Care, Rehabilitation or Acute Inpatient Nursing
- Ability to work a minimum of one shift per fortnight over a three month period (casual bank only)
How we orientate and induct you
When you join the CRU team you will be provided with a number of resources to assist you with the transition into the workforce including:
- Online learning and mandatory competencies
- Clinical induction shifts
- Follow up review with the employee and team member from the unit
- Education Support from the Clinical Nurse Educator
Meet the Access and Resource Team
The Access and Resource Unit is managed by Emma Jones. Emma’s team in CRU consists of:
- Allocations Team Leader
- Clinical Nurse Educator
- Recruitment and Retention Coordinators
For all recruitment and position enquiries the Central Resource Unit can be contacted by email at: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Last Modified: Thursday, 30 April 2020