Employment Type: Full time
- Fixed Term (Long Service Leave Cover) Hours: 0800-1630 Monday
- Friday

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(e.g. Hybrid / Mercy Hospital for Women Heidelberg / Mercy Place Albury) Upload with Application: Resume, cover letter, and all relevant qualifications Contact: Haylee Howard, Nurse Unit Manager email: [email protected] Where there’s life, there’s Mercy. Where there’s care, there’s You. Through the battles and the breakthroughs, we're there. Where will you be? For over a century, our incredible teams have provided care for people when they need it most. Our people feel great pride in this, and they value the security and stability

we offer
. But it also means so much opportunity
- to build on all that’s gone before, to grow your impact and gain experience that’s hard to find elsewhere. As a for-purpose organisation with over 10,000 dedicated, compassionate people, we continue to offer more services and deeper care than ever before. With Mercy, you’ll have the chance to make an impact and gain experience that’s hard to find elsewhere. At Mercy Health, it’s all about taking what we have and making it better. To do that, we need you. Join us at Mercy Health, and help our teams deliver even greater outcomes. About the opportunity Join Mercy Palliative Care Consult Team and become part of a highly skilled, compassionate multidisciplinary team dedicated to delivering exceptional palliative and end-of-life care across Werribee Mercy Hospital. This senior clinical role offers the chance to influence patient outcomes beyond the palliative care unit, providing expert consultation, leadership, education and care coordination to support patients,



families and healthcare teams throughout their care journey.
• Provide expert, holistic, patient-centred care to patients with palliative and end-of-life care needs, their families and carers.
• Coordinate and oversee palliative care interventions across the hospital, ensuring timely assessment, treatment planning and continuity of care.
• Act as a clinical leader, educator and resource for nursing, midwifery and multidisciplinary teams, promoting best practice and evidence-based palliative care. What you’ll bring You’re resilient, compassionate and have a whole lot of heart. Most importantly, you are committed to delivering exceptional patient-centred care. To thrive in this role, you will have:
• Advanced clinical knowledge and experience in palliative care, with strong assessment, clinical decision-making and care coordination skills.
• Well-developed leadership, communication and relationship-building skills, with the ability to influence practice and work collaboratively across multidisciplinary teams.
• A commitment to education, continuous improvement and the delivery of compassionate, evidence-based care for patients and families facing life-limiting illness. You will also be required to provide evidence of, or in the process of obtaining:




• Current registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) as a Registered Nurse.
• Postgraduate qualification in Palliative Care.
• Minimum five years' experience in palliative care and demonstrated experience in a leadership or senior clinical role.
• Current Police Record Check and Working with Children Check.
• Evidence of current influenza vaccination and other vaccination requirements in accordance with Mercy Health and public health directives. Ready to help us shape the future of healthcare? Join us and make a meaningful difference in people’s lives
- and your career. Are you ready to apply for this role? Click Apply now Please contact us if you would like to find out more or communicate any requirements to ensure we provide you with a fair and equitable interview and selection process. We acknowledge the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung peoples, traditional Custodians of the Land in which our Head Office is based, on traditional lands of the Kulin Nation and recognise their deep connections to the land, sea, and culture. We extend this acknowledgment to the many Traditional Lands that we operate across Australia and pay our respects to Elders past and present. The team at Mercy Health is as wonderfully diverse as the patients, residents, clients and communities we support. We’re proud to be recognised as an Employer of Choice for Gender Equality by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA). Mercy Health strongly encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and people of all ages, sexualities, genders, abilities and cultural backgrounds.

📌 Clinical Nurse Consultant (Melbourne)
🏢 Mercy Health
📍 Melbourne