Nurse Manager (Grade 3), Chronic and Complex Care - St Vincent's Public Hospital, Sydney

Role type:  Max term contract full time (Aug 2025)

Department and location: Chronic and Complex Care, St Vincent’s Hospital, Darlinghurst

Salary:  $139,661.16 - $142,254.44 + super. 

Better and fairer care.  Always. 

We are St Vincent’s Health Australia, Australia’s largest not-for-profit provider of health and aged care services.   

Founded by The Sisters of Charity in 1857, our +30,000 healthcare superheroes operate public and private hospitals, residential aged care, community and virtual care, and outreach programs.   

About the role 

• Managing the Chronic and Complex Care Service, including Heart Failure, Diabetes and COPD Services. 

• Actively contribute to the overall strategy and leadership within the clinical program, providing sound financial, administrative, operational and human resource management for all clinical services within the portfolio. 

• Direction, co-ordination and supervision of staff within the Chronic and Complex Care team to ensure safe and efficient clinical practice.

• Proven ability to coordinate multidisciplinary teams, ensuring high-quality, patient care across a range of complex conditions and health care settings.

• Strong critical thinking, decision-making, and problem-solving skills, with the capacity to manage and prioritise.

• Current Registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) and relevant post graduate qualification in management and /or equivalent experience. 

• Demonstrated high level leadership within the workplace; ability to plan, implement and evaluate local service delivery and to form productive working relationships.

• Highly developed communication, negotiation, facilitation and conflict resolution skills.

• Demonstrated experience managing operational, financial, human resource & workplace health and safety considerations.

• Understanding of the role and function of community health services, with ability to comprehend the navigation of a patient's journey across hospital, community and primary care services.

Why work at St Vincent’s? 

• Join us on our mission to provide care to all, including the most at-risk people in our community

• Discounted access to many gyms for you and your family with Fitness Passport

• Access to discounted private health insurance with Medibank

• Access to a government salary sacrifice program.  Make a proportion of your salary tax-free 

• Committed to financial support for educational development, scholarship programs, paid study leave 

About the hospital 

In this role you will be based at St Vincent’s hospital, Darlinghurst.  

•  A busy inner-city hospital in a beautiful location 

• Surrounded by great cafes, galleries and theatres, parks, nightlife, and nearby glorious beaches

• A place of expert clinical care for at-risk people

• Closely partnered with universities & affiliated research institutes, many of which are located on-campus

• Centres of excellence include heart & lung transplantation, bone marrow transplantation, cardiology, cancer care, AIDS/HIV, respiratory medicine, mental health, homeless health, drug & alcohol services, and correctional health  

Sponsorship / work rights for Australia 

Please note, visa sponsorship is not available for this position. For this role you must be an Australian or New Zealand citizen or have an Australia visa that grants you the work rights necessary for the role. 

Pre-employment checks 

Your employment is conditional upon the completion of all role-required pre-employment checks, including relevant immunisations.