Title:  Clinical Nurse Consultant (ECMO)

Clinical Nurse Consultant

• Permanent Full Time Hours | Box Hill location | Work close to home, close to public transport and shops
• Intensive Care Unit | 80 hours per fortnight | Monday - Friday
• Do you want to provide exceptional patient-centred care within a values-based organisation? | Extensive range of career and learning opportunities

Eastern Health is seeking an experienced and compassionate Intensive Care nurse leader to join our Intensive Care team at Box Hill Hospital as an Associate Nurse Unit Manager (ANUM).

Eastern Health

Eastern Health is one of Melbourne’s largest public health services. We are a values-based organisation committed to research and teaching and have strong affiliations with Australia’s top universities. We provide a range of emergency, surgical, medical and general healthcare services, including maternity, palliative care, mental health, drug and alcohol, residential care, community health and state-wide specialist services to people and communities that are diverse in culture, age, socio-economic status, population and healthcare needs.

About the role

The ECMO CNC/CMC C will work collaboratively with multiple internal and external stakeholders to ensure the safe delivery of the ECMO service across Eastern Health. This involves working closely with the medical lead for ECMO and the ECLS Nurse Practitioner to ensure clinical, educational and competencies are upheld in accordance with VECMOS and ELSO standards. In addition, the role is responsible for:

• Taking and reviewing ECMO patient referrals
• Maintaining the ECMO on call roster and associated staffing requirements. 
• Ensures nursing staff are credentialled to provide ECMO, inclusive of required contact hours.   
• Supports ECMO related equipment, maintenance and contractor contact details across EH.
• Liaises and provides referrals to Ambulance Retrieval Victoria (ARV) and the Victorian Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (VECMO) for patient transfer to the Alfred Hospital ECMO and Critical Care Service where indicated. 

Qualifications and Registration:

Essential:

• Bachelor of Nursing, Midwifery or other recognised equivalent formal qualification leading to condition free registration in Australia
• Registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australian (NMBA) via AHPRA
• Post Registration or Post Graduate qualification or further study in a relevant clinical or academic field.

Desirable:

• Certificate IV in training and assessment
• Experience of working autonomously within a clinical environment
• Member of Australian College of Nursing or Midwifery
• ECMO credentialed by VECMOS, ELSO or equivalent or willing to work towards

Experience:

• Demonstrated clinical skills aligned with experience and scope of practice
• A minimum of 5 years post registration experience in specialism related to the CNC/CMC role.
• Demonstrated leadership and teaching skills in the clinical setting

Essential Skills and Attributes:

• Understanding and commitment to professional standards, codes and behaviours as legislated through the Health Act, Nursing Midwifery Board of Australia, other relevant professional bodies and Eastern Health Policy, Standards and Practice Guidelines.
• Proven ability to perform clinical work in a pressure environment 
• Awareness and understanding of National Standards and Accreditation Standards.
• Demonstrates advanced verbal and written communication skills in all professional domains of practice.
• Demonstrates an advanced ability to liaise with internal and external peers, stakeholders and clients.
• Commitment to ongoing professional development.
• Digital literacy and embracing of health technologies and informatics.

The Clinical Consultant is a Registered Nurse who is appointed as such to provide a clinical resource, clinical advisory/developmental role on a dedicated basis (i.e. performs only consultancy work on the relevant shifts) and undertakes related projects, research, and developmental activities to meet specified clinical nursing/midwifery needs in a clinical discipline.

 
The Clinical Consultant actively leads the clinical nursing service delivery within their specified unit and collaborates with members of the multidisciplinary team to review and mitigate issues around clinical quality and safety risk, service performance and care standards relevant to their role.

The Clinical Consultant C is a Registered Nurse who fulfils the clinical consultant role, and:

1. is the sole Registered Nurse or Midwife in the specialty (at a particular site or campus);
2. is in charge of a specialty team; or
3. is a clinical consultant who takes referrals from, or delivers the consultancy outside of more than one campus/worksite/centre of the health service   

Eastern Health Intensive Care Services currently comprise three Intensive Care Units (ICU), at the Eastern Health Box in Box Hill, Eastern Health Maroondah in Ringwood East and Eastern Health Angliss in Upper Ferntree Gully. The service includes 50 physical bed spaces to provide care to 21 intensive care equivalent patients. The service provides a mixture of intensive care and high dependency level care.

Each ICU provides high level care to patients within a multidisciplinary teaching hospital environment. Much of this care includes support for patients with severe illnesses, complex surgical recovery, and need for complex procedures, artificial ventilation and other forms of life support.

The service is led by Intensive Care Consultant Intensivists, and staffed by Critical-Care trained Nursing staff, Allied Health staff and training medical staff.

About you

To be successful in this role you need to have:

• Current valid nursing registration with AHPRA
• Postgraduate qualification in Critical Care / Intensive Care Nursing
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and networking skills
• A willingness to embrace Eastern Health values and contribute to a positive team culture
• Excellent patient assessment skills and attention to detail
• Strong commitment to high quality patient care and consumer engagement
• Strong time management and organisational skills

What we offer

Eastern Health offers a variety of fantastic Employee Benefits, view the extensive range here!

• The benefits of working for Eastern Health include:
• Diverse and engaging career opportunities
• Friendly & supportive team
• Flexible working hours
• Salary packaging options
• Career progression in our teaching hospitals

Next Steps
Apply online if you feel we are a good match, you have the skills and qualities to make a difference and are eligible to work in Australia.

We review all applications when we receive them, and we notify unsuccessful candidates.

If you are shortlisted, we will be in touch to arrange an interview, and you must complete a National Police Check (which we will pay for). We will notify unsuccessful candidates.

Good to know:

• We are an equal opportunity employer and actively promote equality for people of all races, ethnicities, gender identities, sexual orientations, and for people living with disability – within the communities we serve and our Eastern Health team.
• We provide a culturally safe and welcoming environment for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander employees.
• As a child-safe organisation, we ensure child safety and wellbeing is embedded in our everyday culture.
• Vaccination and screening for immunity to vaccine-preventable disease is a mandatory requirement of this role.
• Advertising may end before the closing date.
• We do not accept recruitment agency application

Please click here for the Position Description

Contact Person: Nurse Manager Intensive Care - Box Hill Hospital 

Contact Number: (03) 83968299 

Job Posting End Date: 11th July 2025 - Application may Close sooner than posted date. 

Need help submitting your application?

Just contact the Hiring Manager in the advertisement or call the Talent Acquisition Team on (03) 9955 7555 (Option 1) | Medical Workforce Unit on (03) 9895 3469. [TA for Non Medical roles, MWU for Medical roles]

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