About the role

The Mater Mothers Neonatal Critical Care Unit is seeking dynamic, highly skilled registered nurses to join the team as a permanent full-time or part-time Registered Nurse.

If you are an experienced nurse seeking to diversify your skills and embark on a career in neonatal nursing caring for highly complex babies, this is the role for you!

The Neonatal Critical Care Unit is a 79 bed perinatal tertiary referral centre which provides care for approximately 2000 babies per year. Within this unit is a cohort of highly specialised and complex babies requiring intensive care in collaboration with multiple sub specialty teams from Queensland Children’s Hospital. 

As a statewide perinatal centre for the delivery of all antenatally diagnosed complex cardiac conditions since 2009, and with the opening of the Statewide children’s hospital in 2014, the Neonatal Critical Care Unit at Mater Mothers’ Hospital has become the quaternary surgical neonatal intensive care unit for South East and Central Queensland. With this comes the unique opportunity within our neonatal intensive care to provide comprehensive family centred care to a cohort of babies, including those born prematurely, with cardiac, surgical, neurosurgical, renal and other complex conditions as part of our large multidisciplinary team.

Salary range: $40.27 - $51.74 (Registered Nurse Level 1) per hour plus superannuation and access to not-for-profit salary packaging up to $15,900  + access to many staff benefits!

What you'll be doing

As a Registered Nurse, you will be part of a high-functioning team, providing high quality care to patients, supporting the general function of the unit using best practice principles and education, whilst drawing upon your extensive nursing/midwifery and neonatal experience.

You will care for babies and families that have been born at MMH and babies that have been retrieved from other centres state-wide for specialist care. Some of the experiences you will provide will be:

• Facilitating the transfer of babies from the NCCU to the children’s hospital for operative and investigative procedures and return for ongoing care in the NCCU.
• Assisting with cardiac procedures performed in the NCCU
• Stabilizing and supporting preoperative care for babies born with cardiac conditions
• Stabilising babies for transfer to PICU for escalating care requirements; these may include assisting the PICU team with commencement of ECMO
• Pre and post-operative care of a range of neonatal surgical conditions
• Opportunity for complex case management of high risk woman with suspected congenital neonatal abnormalities
• Provide newborn resuscitation for complex babies requiring specialist care
• Work within a high functioning and dynamic team enhancing professional growth opportunities
• Be part of a positive workplace culture and continuous quality improvement activities  

You will be provided the opportunity to gain highly specialised skills across a diverse range of neonatal conditions that are complex in nature. You will also experience being part of a highly skilled team who respect, care and appreciate each other and are committed and focused on a positive workplace culture.

About you

As the successful applicant you will have:

• Current AHPRA registration as a Registered Nurse, or Registered Nurse with Midwife Registration
• Experience in neonatal intensive care or similar environment is essential
• Postgraduate neonatal qualification or equivalent (or a willingness to complete this qualification upon commencement in this role)
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and clinical problem solving skills
• Demonstrated commitment to the continued quality improvement and best practice principles
• Demonstrated collaborative and engaging team approach and ability to work within a multi-disciplinary team
• Understanding of the Mater mission and values and the ability to engage others in living the values in NCCU

Why join us?

Mater is Queensland’s largest and most innovative not-for-profit healthcare service, providing care for almost 700,000 patients a year across a network of 11 hospitals.

We are a leader in healthcare, education and research — and that’s because we employ exceptional people. #MAKEYOURMATERMOVE

• Via salary packaging arrangements allocate some living expenses directly from your pre-taxable income and ultimately increasing take-home pay
• Access to package meal and entertainment expenses
• Access to leading education via Mater Education
• Access to our Employee Assistance Program and on-site pastoral care teams
• Discounts to local and national business and venues for Dining/Retail/Travel & Accommodation and Other
• Access to on-site, discounted parking
• Discounted food and beverage at various campus cafés and coffee venues