- Location: Western Health and Rural & Regional Partner Health Services
- Employment Type: Ongoing, Part Time or Full Time
Western Health are seeking experienced Registered Nurses, Registered Midwives and Enrolled Nurses to join the Westwards program, a flexible workforce initiative that supports services across Western Health campuses and rural and regional partner health services.
As a Pool Nurse or Midwife employed through the Westwards program, you will work across a range of clinical settings providing workforce support where it is needed most. As part of the program, you will undertake supported secondments to partner health services and, at other times, work within Western Health’s campuses.
Westwards role offers permanent employment with flexibility, variety and the opportunity to broaden your clinical experience across metropolitan, rural and regional healthcare settings. The program is designed for clinicians who are adaptable, clinically confident and interested in developing their practice through exposure to different services, teams and patient care environments. Rural and Regional placements include accommodation support and meal allowances, where applicable.
Throughout the program, you will remain employed and supported by Western Health, one of Victoria’s largest and fastest growing health services. You will have access to career development pathways, professional support and future employment opportunities across the Western Health network.
This role is suited to nurses and midwives who are interested in building breadth in their practice, supporting services across Western Health and partner organisations, and contributing to the future delivery of healthcare across Melbourne’s West.
- Deliver safe, evidence-based and person-centred care across metropolitan, rural and regional healthcare settings.
- Collaborate effectively within multidisciplinary teams to support positive patient outcomes.
- Adapt to diverse clinical environments while maintaining professional and clinical standards.
- Undertake supported Westwards secondments across partner health services as part of the Westwards program.
- Current registration with AHPRA relevant to your profession and specialty area.
- Adaptable, resilient and confident working across diverse healthcare settings.
- Committed to participating in ongoing Westwards secondments across rural and regional partner health services.
- Willing and able to work a 7-day rotating roster in line with service requirements.
IMPORTANT: In your cover letter and application, clearly specify the position you are applying for based on the available vacancies listed below.
Opportunities are available across:
Westwards - Enrolled Nurse (EN)
- Employment Type: Ongoing, Part Time
- Salary: EN Level 2 + Superannuation + Salary Packaging
Build on your clinical experience across a variety of ward-based settings while contributing to high-quality patient care within a supported and flexible workforce model.
Westwards - Perioperative Enrolled Nurse (EN)
- Employment Type: Ongoing, Part Time
- Salary: EN Level 2 + Superannuation + Salary Packaging
Become a part of our devoted, multidisciplinary Perioperative team and embrace the diversity of surgical patients and their Perioperative and Peri-anaesthetic journey.
Westwards - Registered Midwife (RM)
- Employment Type: Ongoing, Part Time
- Salary: RM Grade 2 + Superannuation + Salary Packaging
Work across Maternity Services spanning metropolitan, rural and regional settings. Strengthen continuity of care skills, support diverse birthing populations and contribute to safe, woman-centred maternity care across varying service models.
Westwards - Emergency Department, Registered Nurse (RN)
- Employment Type: Ongoing, Part Time
- Salary: RN Grade 2 + Superannuation + Salary Packaging
Deliver high-acuity emergency care across Western Health sites and partnering rural and regional health services, building advanced assessment skills, adaptability and confidence within fast-paced and diverse clinical environments.
Westwards - Perioperative Registered Nurse (RN)
Work across diverse Perioperative environments within metropolitan, rural and regional health services, supporting patients throughout the surgical journey. Gain exposure to a broad range of specialties while developing flexibility, technical expertise and confidence across anaesthetics, scrub/scout, recovery and day procedure settings.
- Employment Type: Ongoing, Part Time
- Salary: RN Grade 2 + Superannuation + Salary Packaging
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Western Health is one of the largest healthcare providers in Victoria, caring for a vibrant, diverse and rapidly growing community of one million people in Melbourne’s western suburbs.
With more than 13,000 staff, Western Health delivers 800,000+ occasions of care every year, providing high-quality, person-centered care across every life stage.
We provide a combination of hospital, community-based, at-home and in-reach services to aged, adult and paediatric patients and newborn babies. Specialties include oncology, renal, mental health, women’s health and maternity, chronic diseases, geriatrics and cardiology.
We have remarkable strengths in chronic disease, complex care and developing innovative and sustainable healthcare solutions. Our experience at the coalface of healthcare delivery for some of Australia’s most culturally and socioeconomically diverse and vulnerable populations provides us with unique insights into the most pressing health challenges.
Western Health operates four acute public hospitals: Sunshine Hospital (including Joan Kirner Women’s and Children’s), Footscray Hospital, Williamstown Hospital and Bacchus Marsh Hospital. We also operate Sunbury Community Hospital, Sunshine Mental Health and Wellbeing Centre, Melton Health and Community Services, Bacchus Marsh Community Health Centre, Caroline Springs Community Health Centre and Grant Lodge Residential Aged Care in Bacchus Marsh. Western Health also provides the primary healthcare service at the Dame Phyllis Frost Centre; a women’s prison located in Ravenhall.
If you’re an experienced nurse or midwife looking for variety, career growth and the opportunity to work across metropolitan, rural and regional healthcare settings, we’d love to hear from you.
Western Health is committed to providing a safe environment for the children and young people who are involved in our services, sites and operations. We follow and abide by all legislative requirements to keep children and young people safe.
