Clinical Nurse Coordinator l General Practice

Are you a nurse leader who believes great healthcare should be accessible to everyone? As Clinical Nurse Coordinator, reporting to the Manager, Medical Services, you will lead the nursing team within a bulk-billed general practice that serves some of Melbourne's most diverse communities. This is your chance to shape how care is delivered, not just deliver it.

You will balance leadership with hands-on clinical work, around two days a week with patients, while steering clinical governance and new service initiatives. It's a role where your experience directly influences quality, safety and outcomes for people who need it most.

This is a permanent full time position based on-site in Melbourne's north, classified at CN6 under the Victorian public sector nurses' agreement.

Your Key Responsibilities as the Clinical Nurse Coordinator:

- Team Leadership: Provide line management, professional supervision, peer review and development for the medical services nursing team.
- Clinical Practice: Stay close to patient care, delivering hands-on nursing services for around two days per week on average.
- Clinic Operations: Oversee the day-to-day running of the clinic, including rostering, leave and appointments, in partnership with the Manager.
- Clinical Governance: Lead infection prevention and control, medication safety and cold chain management across the service.
- Service Development: Work alongside the Manager to develop and implement new systems and initiatives that strengthen the service.
- Quality & Compliance: Support budgets, targets and reporting, take part in audits, and recommend improvements to safety and service delivery.
- Community & Partnerships:



Contribute to health promotion and preventative screening, respond to client feedback, and work closely with GPs and external partners.

About You:

- A clinical leader with a track record of guiding nursing teams and lifting standards of care
- Strong clinical assessment skills, including care of the deteriorating patient, and a calm head in an emergency
- Experience in community or primary health settings, working with diverse communities, refugee clients and interpreters Confident with multidisciplinary teams, project work and building systems that make a service run better
- Respiratory experience (inpatient, outpatient, ED, pulmonary rehab or chronic disease) is highly regarded
- A warm, can-do communicator who thrives in a changing environment and genuinely cares about equity in health
- Postgraduate qualifications or solid experience in management, leadership or public health
- Essential: Registered Nurse (Division 1) with current AHPRA registration.

Why This Organisation:

This organisation is a progressive, independent community health service offering primary care, allied health, mental health, oral health and social support across Melbourne. Its people are guided by courage, empathy, integrity and a shared vision of health and wellbeing for everyone. You will join a collaborative, inclusive team that challenges the status quo and celebrates diversity, with applications warmly encouraged from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, LGBTIQA+ people, people with disability and those from culturally diverse backgrounds.

"Health care is vital to all of us some of the time, but public health is vital to all of us all of the time." - C. Everett Koop

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📌 Clinical Nurse Coordinator l General Practice (Melbourne)
🏢 Remedy Recruitment
📍 Melbourne