Your opportunity:

Be at the heart of helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives.

You might think you already know a lot about Bupa. You’ll know we provide health insurance and aged care services across Australia and you’ve probably also seen our dental and optical clinics in your local shopping centres. But what you might not realise is that Bupa supports health services to 85,000 Defence Force members and their families across more than 50 locations in Australia.

About the Role:

As a Nurse Coordinator (locum Relief) with Bupa ADF Health Services you will provide backfill support to the health centres across Australia in order to maintain Health Centre operations during periods of planned leave.

This is a fantastic opportunity for nurses with leadership skills to stretch into a Nursing Coordinator role, growing your skillset with experience across a variety of Health centres and clinics as well as developing your expertise with changing patient cohorts and clinical environments.

You will balance regular travel (around block assignments) with time based in your home location either supporting local health centres with short-term leave requirements or the ADF Health Services more broadly with clinical support in quality and governance.

While based in one of our Health Centres as a Nurse Coordinator you will:

• Supporting operational capability by preparing members for global employability/deployment and exercises
• Coordinating and participating in vaccination parades, sick parade, triage of members within a Primary Health Care Team model, Staff development, Performance appraisals
• Overseeing and facilitating complex situations including clinical, managerial, and educational contexts e.g. assistance with emergency medical responses, clinical review, and complaint resolution
• Investigation of clinical incidents to include review and corrective actions in conjunction with health centre management
• Review and update of department SOPs
• Assist in coordinating roster, staffing levels and supervision of the Ward nursing and Defence Force staff, to enable the provision of high standard of health care
• Oversight of department rosters and coordination of staff allocation

About you:

To thrive in this role, you will be an inherently collaborative worker who enjoys working with people of all backgrounds to achieve common goals. You will also enjoy the fast paced and problem-solving elements this role will bring.

You will:

• be an adept relationship-builder with excellent interpersonal and communication skills, including the ability to provide regular coaching and feedback to your team
• be a proven leader who is resilient and adaptable to changing healthcare environments
• show an innate ability to connect processes, systems and people with the big picture while making sure all the detail is in place
• leadership and management experience is essential – you may have been acting in a team leader or 2IC role and are ready to make the move permanently or you might be wanting to further develop your leadership skills with a global health leader

You will also:

• Be an Australian Citizen
• Have at least 5 years’ experience as a Div 1 RN
• Have full AHPRA registration
• Previous Defence experience will be highly regarded
• Proficient in computer operation systems in healthcare as ADF uses multiple platforms for electronic healthcare records
• Ideally possess post Graduate Qualifications in Nursing or Health Management or working toward same.

Be at the heart of it with Bupa:

This isn’t your average nurse leadership role. This is your opportunity to make a real impact on our services to help shape the health outcomes of the men and women serving in Australia Defence Forces.

We also offer:

• Tangible employee benefits and discounts on Bupa products and other health and wellbeing initiatives
• A supportive team where your contribution is truly valued – our people love working at Bupa!

A career at Bupa is more than just a job. It's an opportunity to make a real difference in the lives of our customers and communities. Our purpose, helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives, is what inspires us. It's a promise to our customers to change lives for the better. Our people are at the heart of this. It's their passion, ideas and commitment that will shape a brighter future for both Bupa and our customers.

To learn more about working at Bupa please visit our website: www.bupa.com.au/careers

Bupa is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to ensuring equality in recruitment, development, retention and promotion of staff and that no-one is disadvantaged based on their gender, cultural background, disability, sexual orientation or identity, or Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander heritage. We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply.