About the Role
Provide strategic, operational, and clinical leadership for the Nelune Centre, ensuring the delivery of safe, high-quality, patient-centered cancer care across a complex ambulatory treatment service. Lead multidisciplinary teams in coordinating various cancer care services while driving innovation, quality improvement, and workforce development.
Responsibilities
- Provide strategic, operational and clinical leadership for the Nelune Centre.
- Ensure the delivery of safe, high-quality, patient-centred cancer care across a complex ambulatory treatment service.
- Lead multidisciplinary teams in the coordination of chemotherapy, clinical trials, transfusion support, apheresis and supportive care services.
- Maintain efficient patient flow and operational excellence.
- Drive service innovation, quality improvement and workforce development.
- Foster evidence-based practice, staff capability and collaborative partnerships across medical, nursing, pharmacy and allied health teams.
- Oversee the management of a high-acuity cancer treatment environment.
- Ensure clinical governance, patient safety, workforce management, resource allocation and compliance with organisational and professional standards.
- Champion strategic growth and organisational change by leading clinical redesign initiatives.
- Support research and innovation.
- Adapt services to meet evolving patient, workforce and Cancer Services priorities.
Requirements
- Currently registered as a Registered Nurse (Division 1) with the Australian Health Professionals Regulation Agency.
- Recognised post graduate tertiary qualification in haematology/oncology or management (or willingness to undertake same within 12 months) or equivalent relevant experience.
- Demonstrated operational, financial, human resource, workplace health and safety and effective communication and interpersonal skills experience at departmental level.
- Comprehensive understanding of clinical governance and current cancer nursing issues.
- Demonstrated evidence of integration of theoretical knowledge and clinical skills, critical thinking and analysis in daily practice.
- Demonstrated experience in quality improvement principles, clinical policy and procedure development and implementation.
- Ability to deliver evidenced-based, patient-centred care within a complex environment.
Skills
- Strategic leadership
- Operational leadership
- Clinical leadership
- Multidisciplinary team leadership
- Service innovation
- Quality improvement
- Workforce development
- Evidence-based practice
- Collaborative partnerships
- Clinical governance
- Patient safety
- Resource allocation
- Clinical redesign
- Research support
- Communication skills
- Interpersonal skills
Location
- Nelune Centre, The Kinghorn Cancer Centre, St Vincent’s Public Hospital, Sydney
Work Type
- Max term contract
- Full time
Experience Level
- Level 3
Education Level
- Registered Nurse (Division 1) with AHPRA
- Post graduate tertiary qualification in haematology/oncology or management (or willingness to undertake same within 12 months) or equivalent relevant experience
Salary/Compensations
- $140,793.44 + super
Benefits
- Not-for-profit salary packaging
- Seamless NSW Health Mobility
- Study leave
- Curran Foundation scholarships
- Fitness Passport
- Discounted private health
- Cultural recognitions and celebrations
About the Company
- Join a team built on a proud legacy of world-class care, true compassion, and deep community roots.
- Founded by the Sisters of Charity and powered today by St Vincent’s Health Australia, the Sisters' legacy of compassionate service is our living heartbeat.
- Sydney’s premier and iconic inner-city public hospital, providing world-class care to all people, including the most vulnerable in our community.
- Features cutting-edge programs and surgery infrastructure, fostering clinical excellence and professional growth.
- Located in the vibrant heart of Darlinghurst, minutes from Kings Cross station, with direct, high-frequency bus connections and seamless links from Gadigal and Museum stations.
Equal Opportunity
- We celebrate diversity & inclusion and are committed to equal employment opportunity for everyone.
- As part of our commitment to reconciliation, we encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to apply and join us in delivering care that heals body, mind, spirit and community.
- St Vincent's acknowledges the importance of creating a work environment that is welcoming, safe, equitable and inclusive for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Employees.
- As part of our Commitment to Reconciliation and Closing the Gap in employment related outcomes, we encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples.
