Casual Registered Nurse (Radiation Oncology) | Icon Cancer Centre - Mornington,

An exciting opportunity awaits a Registered Nurse to join our team at Icon’s newly built The Bays Cancer Care Centre in Mornington Victoria.The Cancer Care Centre is based next to The Bays Private Hospital and provides cutting-edge radiation therapy technology, treating all tumour streams and delivering countless new courses of life-saving radiation therapy to the Mornington community each year.  

• Develop your Nursing career within a Highly Innovated, Research-Focused, Rapidly Expanding Company
• Casual Hours, weekdays only    

About the Role:
We are seeking an experienced Registered Nurse to join our innovative and dynamic team on a casual basis. This role reports to the Nurse Manager and is responsible for providing the delivery of nursing care to patients receiving Radiotherapy.

As a Registered Nurse at Icon, working alongside the multidisciplinary team, your role is to provide outstanding patient-centred care and achieve optimal healthcare outcomes for oncology patients. You will be responsible for supervising and delegating to other health care professionals as required. Care will be provided in accordance with the patient’s physical, psychological, emotional, social, and spiritual wellbeing. You will utilise available resources, promote and participate in all national standards and quality activities.  

Whilst Radiation Oncology / Medical Oncology experience is highly favourable, we also encourage applicants with experience/skills in high acuity settings, immunocompromised patient care, wound management, and/or palliative care.

Key Responsibilities:

• Contribute advice and demonstrate contemporary nursing knowledge and skill in oncology nursing practice in accordance with current legislation and professional standards and codes of practice
• Support the Nurse Manager in the day-to-day operations
• Support a high-performance culture that delivers quality patient care services through a patient centric and collaborative approach
• Assess the healthcare needs of patients and formulate, implement, and evaluate a plan of care in partnership with the patient
• Develop and maintain collaborative relationships with all disciplines, other departments, and the wider professional community
• Actively participate in identifying areas of nursing practice where improvements can be made to the quality of nursing care
• Commit to ongoing professional development of self, other staff, and the profession  

About you:
Icon Group is committed to providing exemplary patient care and radiation therapy services to the community. Our dynamic and innovative teams collaborate closely to maintain a team focus on providing cutting edge radiation therapy techniques. We are looking for candidates who are highly enthusiastic, motivated and quick to adapt in a supportive environment. If this sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you.

Skills & Experience:
Our ideal candidate will possess the following:

• Current AHPRA registration as a Registered Nurse.
• Radiation Oncology Nursing experience (highly desirable)
• Ability to apply excellent communication and problem-solving skills with both patients and colleagues.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment whilst maintaining good working relationships.
• Ability to apply critical thinking skills to complex, time sensitive issues.
• Genuine interest in cancer care nursing and professional development within this space.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively use Electronic Medical Records.
• Commitment to learning and continual professional development  

If this sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you!

Icon Cancer Centre – Australia and New Zealand
Icon Cancer Centre are pioneers of private cancer care in Australia with over 35 years' experience. There are currently 40 cancer centres across Australia and a joint venture in New Zealand with several in development. These centres include a mix of dedicated medical oncology, haematology, and radiation oncology facilities, as well as comprehensive cancer centres that bring all services together under one roof, including research and pharmacy. Over half of Icon’s cancer centres are in outer-metro and regional communities delivering on our mission to bring the best possible care, closer to home.  

For more information on our cancer services in Australia visit https://icongroup.global/en/our-services/cancer-services-australia/ or www.iconcancercentre.com.au  

Here’s why our people choose us: 
Purpose, at Pace: We remain focused on continually expanding our cancer treatment services and making them accessible to more people across Australia and internationally.  
Impact, at Scale: We’re Australia’s largest dedicated provider of cancer care, with our global reach growing every day. Here you’ll know your work is making a difference.  
Connection, at Heart: Our work isn’t easy but it’s extremely important. Our secret ingredient is our incredible, connected, and talented people. And their secret ingredient is each other.  
Opportunity, at Hand: We’re constantly innovating. We deliver over 2.5 million patient interactions, in over 120 places, across 5 countries. Every week brings changes, growth and new opportunities.  

Excited to join us?  
At Icon, build relationships that matter. Apply Now because At Icon, You Can.  

Visit https://icongroup.global/en/careers/our-people/stories/ to read the stories of our incredible people. 

Icon Group celebrates diversity and is committed to creating an inclusive workplace for all employees. We encourage applications from all diverse backgrounds.
  
Icon is committed to managing the risk of transmission of specified vaccine preventable diseases (VPDs). Certain roles may require the successful candidate to show evidence that they have been vaccinated against or are not susceptible to specified VPDs.