Nurse Unit Manager - Timbarra

Latrobe Regional Health is a leading provider of health care services across the Gippsland Region

About the role

Are you seeking a rewarding and diverse Nurse Unit Manager role in a leading regional hospital? Join the Timbarra team at Latrobe Regional Health, where we value our employees by providing a safe and supportive workplace culture that enables you to thrive. 

Latrobe Regional Health is looking for Nurse Unit Manager Timbarra (Paediatrics & Neonatal) to join our growing team on a full time (1.0EFT) ongoing basis.

We are seeking an accomplished and motivated Nurse Unit Manager (NUM) to lead the Timbarra Unit, encompassing Paediatrics and Special Care Nursery. The NUM provides strategic direction, clinical leadership and operational oversight to ensure delivery of safe, coordinated and person-centred care of the highest standard. This role is responsible for workforce management, service performance, financial oversight, patient flow, risk management and compliance with Department of Health and LRH Standards. Operating within a multidisciplinary environment, the NUM will champion continuous improvement, foster a positive culture and support the organisations strategic goals.

Working Together | We will respond to challenges together to create a safe, quality health service

The role of the Nurse Unit Manager Timbarra is to:

• Provide strategic and operational leadership for paediatrics and special care nursery, ensuing safe, high-quality, person-centred care across the Timbarra unit.
• Manage workforce capability, including recruitment, rostering, maintaining adequate staffing levels and skill mix, addressing performance issues, and ensuring education and mandatory training compliance.
• Oversee patient flow and collaborate with the broader organisation to meet activity targets, support timely access to care, and ensure coordination across clinical areas.
• Lead risk management and quality improvement, including reviewing incidents, managing complaints, implementing corrective systems, and ensuring compliance with safe practice standards and relevant legislation.
• Provide financial and resource stewardship, including preparing staff and operational budgets, monitoring expenditure, and promoting efficient and responsible use of hospital resources.
• Drive service development and change management, including developing business plans, facilitating policy and protocol development, and introducing improvements aligned with current best practice.
• Support staff growth and professional development through mentoring, performance reviews, education facilitation, supporting new practitioners and fostering a fair, positive and future-oriented team culture.
• Promote effective interdisciplinary collaboration, maintaining open communication with medical officers, nurses, allied health and all health care team members to ensure coordinated, high-quality clinical care.

About you

Ideal candidates for this role will have:

• Registered Nurse with AHPRA and demonstrated recent clinical experience in paediatrics and/or neonatal care.
• Relevant postgraduate qualification and proven leadership/management experience within paediatrics and/or neonatal care.
• Demonstrated capability in managing staff, finances, rosters, service performance and organisational change.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal and report-writing skills, with strong decision-making and problem-solving ability.
• Strong understanding of NSQHS Standards, safe practice requirements and clinical governance processes.
• Highly motivated, flexible and committed to delivering exceptional patient care, staff wellbeing and service improvement.

Latrobe Regional Health offers a range of benefits including:

• Salary packaging up to $9,000 per annum.
• Meals/Entertainment benefit up to $2,650 per annum.
• Encouragement for professional development and ongoing education.
• A range of social club activities, discounts and diverse workplace activities.
• Free access to our Staff Wellbeing Centre offering health education and wellbeing
• Access to discounted gym membership and fitness services through Fitness Passport Services.

Interested about this exciting opportunity, but want more information? We encourage you to contact Simone Redpath, Deputy Chief Operating Officer email on Simone.Redpath@lrh.com.au for a confidential discussion.

Please click here for a copy of the Position Description

About us

Located in the picturesque region of Gippsland, Latrobe Regional Health (LRH) offers the perfect balance between career and lifestyle. Enjoy easy access to Melbourne, stunning beaches, majestic mountains, and serene lakes. With flexible working hours, you can make the most of what Gippsland has to offer.

LRH cares for a population of about 300,000 and is the regional provider of specialist services. Our catchment covers 42,000 square kilometres, from Phillip Island to Mallacoota in the far east of Victoria. LRH offers cardiac care, surgery, medical, renal, emergency care, aged care, women's and children's services, pharmacy, allied health and rehabilitation. Medical and radiation oncology are offered by the Gippsland Cancer Care Centre.

Now is an exciting time to join the LRH team, with the $223.5 million expansion completed in March 2024, offering improved maternity and paediatric facilities, larger intensive care unit, increased medical and surgical beds and additional operating theatres.

Diversity and inclusion

We embrace workforce diversity and actively encourage applications from across our community including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with linguistically diverse backgrounds, people of all genders and gender identities and people with disabilities. LRH's Aboriginal Hospital Liaison Officer is available to support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent applicants and can be contacted via email: AboriginalHealthUnit@lrh.com.au 

How to apply

Join us in our mission to provide exceptional healthcare services to our community. Apply today and make a difference in the lives of our patients and their families. Please click the APPLY button to be directed to our Careers page for direct application. Applications should include a cover letter addressing the Key Selection Criteria and current resume.

Applications Close: 23 March 2026

Explore all the great things happening at LRH by visiting our Careers and Training page of our website www.lrh.com.au/Careers-and-Training/ and take the next step in your career journey.

Before commencement, the successful applicant will

Provide evidence of an original and valid National Police Record Check, an employee Working with Children Check, and a current season influenza vaccine (if applicable to work area), unless a valid medical exemption applies.