Employment: Employment Overview

Employment Overview

Our goal of being the standard of excellence for quality healthcare through continuously improving services is the driving force behind Peninsula Private Hospital's development and is demonstrated in all aspects of the hospital;

• Quality Management Program
• Full accreditation
• Expanding pre-admission clinic participation
• Emphasis on discharge planning
• Collaborative approach between doctors, nurses, and caregivers across the continuum
• Empowering nursing staff
• Providing a multidisciplinary approach to address patient needs, including; physiotherapy, occupational therapy, social workers, dietitians, etc
• Falls prevention program
• Wound Management Consultant and program

All of these and many additional activities contribute to the quality of care patients receive at Peninsula Private Hospital but none so much as the outstanding hands on nursing care that our patients receive every day.

Caring for our nurses who take care of our patients is the key to success. The following are some of the initiatives that have been undertaken to ensure that nursing at Peninsula Private is as rewarding as it is enjoyable;

• Career development opportunities through RHC Staff Development Programs
• Paid study leave for approved post graduate study
• Support and encouragement for succession planning
• Opportunities to influence policy decisions
• Salary packaging of superannuation
• Performance appraisals and reviews linked to personal and professional development
• Extra shifts available for permanent staff, paid at casual rates
• No Lift Policy
• Annual scholarships for staff to undertake approved post graduate study
• Free confidential on-site staff counselling service
• Flexible employment hours that take into consideration individual needs, i.e. the possibility of shifts between 4 and 10 hours long
• Comprehensive orientation program that includes paid supernumery time in the clinical area of employment
• Comprehensive Graduate Nurse programs (in affiliation with a range of Universities)
• Ten weeks paid maternity leave and one week paid paternity leave
• Family friendly conditions of employment
• Hepatitis and Flu vaccinations
• Subsidised meals
• Free social events
• Free car parking
• RN Division 2 Nurses Medication Endorsement Program

These employment benefits combined with a supportive management team, state of the art facility, an outstanding network of doctors and caring nursing staff creates a work environment that is truly as flexible as you need it to be and as challenging as you want to make it.

If you would like to learn more about the opportunities at Peninsula Private Hospital, please contact:

Kath Keating

Director of Clinical Services
Peninsula Private Hospital

Tel: 03 9788 3438
Email: KeatingK@ramsayhealth.com.au