Nurse Unit Manager (Lvl 1) - Oncology Service
Employment Type: Permanent Full Time, 38 hrs per week
Location: Bankstown-Lidcombe Hospital
Position Classification: Nurse Unit Manager Level 1
Remuneration: $127,091.34 per annum
Requisition ID: REQ543607
Application Close Date: 12/01/2025
Contact Details: Sarah Massey – 02 9722 8301| sarah.massey1@health.nsw.gov.au
About the Opportunity
Are you a passionate and experienced nursing professional looking for the next step in your career? Bankstown Hospital is seeking a dedicated Nurse Unit Manager to lead our dynamic Oncology Unit. This is an exciting opportunity to oversee a highly skilled team delivering compassionate, patient-centered care in a fast-paced environment. You will play a pivotal role in ensuring excellence in clinical practice, staff development, and operational management while fostering a positive and collaborative workplace culture.
The successful candidate will possess strong leadership and communication skills, extensive experience in oncology nursing, and a commitment to continuous improvement. As the Nurse Unit Manager, you will work closely with multidisciplinary teams to ensure optimal patient outcomes and the delivery of evidence-based care. If you are ready to make a meaningful impact in a rewarding role, we would love to hear from you. Join us at Bankstown Hospital and help shape the future of oncology services in our community.
What You'll be Doing
The Nursing Unit Manager (NUM) is in-charge of all aspects of the unit environment and takes overall responsibility for the standard of patient care in the unit. The NUM is pivotal to the coordination of patient care, unit management and leadership to ensure the delivery of high quality patient care and efficient use of resources.
Where You'll Be Working
Bankstown-Lidcombe Hospital is located in the city of Bankstown and is in one of the most multicultural local government areas (LGA) in Australia. This hospital has tertiary affiliations with three universities and offers a range of roles and experiences to employees.
The hospital receives highly diverse presentations in ED as well as having general medical and surgical services and sub-specialty services across the hospital. Working at Bankstown-Lidcombe Hospital is a truly rewarding experience which allows you to make a real difference to the multicultural community.
Being part of the team at Bankstown Lidcombe Hospital means you will be a part of a friendly and enthusiastic group of people where you will be truly valued in your work. Being a smaller hospital, you are seen as part of the wider Bankstown-Lidcombe Hospital Family where you are known to the other staff and your patients.
Bankstown-Lidcombe Hospital is like no other in our district and offers unmatched career development and progression opportunities and the hospital focuses on regular training and upskilling. There are regular occasions for working in more senior role and you will have a great management team who dedicate themselves to providing safe, quality patient care through ensuring they have a cohesive and dynamic team.
How to Apply
To be considered for this position, please ensure you address the below questions as thoroughly as possible. View our application guide for information on how to respond to criteria and improve your application.
- Current Authority to Practice as a Registered Nurse with the Australian Health Practitioners Regulation Agency (AHPRA) and relevant tertiary qualifications or equivalent work experience or a combination of study and experience deemed appropriate by SWSLHD.
- Demonstrated senior nursing experience with experience in leading staff and managing services in a relevant setting.
- Proven ability to ensure the human, physical and financial resources of the unit are managed to provide safe, compassionate, quality care that is culturally responsive
- Demonstrated ability to effectively communicate and engage with patients/consumers, carers and the multidisciplinary health care team to identify and ensure responsiveness of care needs
- Demonstrated capacity to interact with others in a personable and professional manner and manage conflicts and performance issues when they arise
- Demonstrated evidence of the use of critical thinking as it relates to the management of the unit and the delivery of evidenced based nursing care
- Demonstrated understanding and participation in risk management, work health and safety and quality improvement in the workplace
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Health & Fitness
South Western Sydney Local Health District employees receive discounted Gym Membership/Corporate Wellbeing Programs, including Fitness Passport.
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