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Graduate Nurse Program Start your career with us
Hear from a current
participant
Codie Reupet-Allen talks about her experience in the current Graduate
Nurse Program at Bass Coast Health in the video below.
https://youtu.be/HmYZQdwihvU
About Bass Coast Health
We’re a rapidly expanding health service that is growing to meet the region’s health needs,
now and into the future.
BCH provides a range of surgical, medical, obstetrics, oncology, allied health, rehabilitation
and community-based services across three sites: Wonthaggi Hospital (the local
sub-regional hospital), San Remo site and Phillip Island Health Hub.
Wonthaggi Hospital
BCH expands – a new cancer centre and hospital Graduate Nurses joining BCH in 2021 and 2022 will see the multi-million dollar Cancer Care Centre, which is due to open early next year at Wonthaggi Hospital. The construction of the $115m Wonthaggi Hospital expansion will also be underway. Stage one will include 18 extra emergency treatment spaces, three operating theatres, and a 32-bed surgical and paediatric inpatient ward. The $115 million new Wonthaggi Hospital An artist’s impression of the Cancer Care will offer nurses more work opportunities Centre to be built at Wonthaggi Hospital
Where we are
Graduate Nurses at Bass Coast Health can enjoy an idyllic lifestyle. The Bass Coast has a
world famous coastline, welcoming community groups, affordable accommodation, and
many shops and services.
There are opportunities for recreation, sport, theatre, hobbies and a vibrant social life,
and the dual lane highway to Melbourne brings the city within easy reach.
Woolamai Beach, Phillip Island.
Photo: Bass Coast Shire CouncilThe ideal start to your
nursing career
Your Graduation Program at Bass Coast
Health will give you the opportunity to
take part in two, six month rotations
across a variety of streams at BCH’S
Wonthaggi and San Remo sites.
Choose from the following streams:
• Operating Suite/Acute Ward
• Emergency Department/Acute Ward
• Aged Care/District Nursing
• Sub-Acute/Aged Care
• Haemodialysis/Emergency
Department
Student nurse Rhamyr Parcon and Clinical
Development Nurse Erin PassarinA former graduate
shares her story
Former Graduate Nurse Steph Wylie talks about her time in the
Graduate Nurse Program at Bass Coast Health in a video below.
https://youtu.be/fKof0UTTrBsExpand your skills and
knowledge
The Graduate Nurse Program provides a
supportive environment. Through practice
and education, the program helps
graduates become confident and
competent clinicians.
The objectives of the year are:
To provide graduates with the clinical
practice to develop and refine their
knowledge and skills
To provide a supportive environment
to facilitate learning opportunities
To further develop critical thinking
skills
To cement time management and
organisational strategies Student nurse Milan Sebastian (left)
To expand on communication skills with current Graduate Nurse Program
and the ability to work as part of a participant Codie
team Reupet-Allen
To encourage ongoing personal and
professional development.Be supported during your
Graduate Year
Graduate Supernumerary support Graduate PAID Study Days
Each graduate is allocated supernumerary time. The Graduate Nurse Program offers four paid study days
During this time the graduate works closely with during the twelve month period. The study days consist of
the clinical area portfolio holder and preceptor to both theoretical and clinical content, which is based on the
assist with their transition into the clinical individual learning needs of the graduates. Each session is
environment. conducted by experienced nurses within the specific field.
Included within these days is the opportunity for each
Graduate Orientation Program graduate to experience a day in any clinical area of their
BCH will include a comprehensive orientation choosing. Some of the areas chosen in the past include:
program run by the Human Resources Department midwifery, mental health, health services coordination,
and the Learning and Development Department. emergency. Graduates also have the opportunity to use the
You will participate in the same orientation program on-site simulation room to practise their nursing skills and
that all employees are offered, but with further have access to a computer room for further theory
days provided to get you up and going and allow development.
you to feel well informed when you commence on
your rotation.
Graduates also receive:
• Monthly Debrief
• Clinical support from the Learning and Development
Team, and the nursing team within their clinical areas.Meet a welcoming Nurse Unit
Manager at BCH
Kirrak House (aged care) Nurse Unit Manager Rebecca Grant encourages
Graduate Nurses to apply for a position at Bass Coast Health. She tells how
nurses will be supported throughout their learning journey.
https://youtu.be/x52Bj7Ce8XIBCH offers a diversity of
experiences
Graduate Nurse Codie Reupet-Allen talks about her experience in the current
Graduate Nurse Program at Bass Coast Health in the video below.
https://youtu.be/wOe1ev3wGvIHow do you apply?
Each Candidate will be required to email or send
applications attention to our Human resources
center:
HR@basscoasthealth.org.au
or
235 Graham Street Wonthaggi, 3995
To be included for selection, your application must
include the following information:
Letter of application
Current resume
Two clinical referees
Associate Nurse Unit Manager Olivia Walkley A passport photo
makes resident Margaret Douglas feel at
Current certified Police Check
home at Kirrak House
Current certified Working with Children’s
Current academic transcript (certified)
All prospective Graduate Nurses apply via Copy of 2 most recent clinical appraisals
Allocations and Placement Service:
Computer matching results are available to
https://allocations.pmcv.com.au/ candidates and hospital administrators via the
PMCV computer matching website (login
required).Opportunities at BCH beyond your Graduation Year BCH offers pathways for a nursing career across three years: Graduate Program (first year), Transition Year (second year) and the Transition to Speciality Practice Year (third year and beyond, when speciality post graduate study is encouraged). These programs provide career growth and development to encourage retention of nurses beyond the Graduate Program, and will assist with increased service delivery and future workforce needs associated with the Wonthaggi Hospital expansion. The Nurse Practitioner Program provides Graduate Nurse Program participant Codie senior nursing clinicians with an opportunity Reupet-Allen in the medicine room to study to become clinical and professional leaders.
Hear about a former Graduate
Nurse’s experience
Former Graduate Program Nurse Steph Wylie recommends Bass Coast
Health as a place to work beyond the Graduation Year, in the video below.
https://youtu.be/Yo4WaTqrj-cCreate yourself a career at Bass
Coast Health
Registered Nurse Stephanie Dunn went from being a casual nurse to completing
the Graduate Nurse Program and Transition Program at Bass Coast Health. Now a
nurse in the Operating Theatre, she is undertaking further studies. She tells her
story in the video below.
https://youtu.be/jeoOkKjspS8Recruitment and selection process RECAP! All prospective graduate nurses wanting a graduate nurse position at BCH are required to apply through the Allocations and Placement Service Postgraduate Medical Council of Victoria (PMCV). At BCH we abide the rules of PMCV and expect our prospective graduates to follow the same process. Further details for PMCV can be found on below website http://allocations.pmcv.com.au/ It is important to note, that prospective graduates must also apply directly to each of the individual hospitals they have nominated.
JUST TO RECAP
Advantages of BCH graduate program
A variety of rotations
Preceptors in each clinical area
Comprehensive orientation program
Progress review at the beginning of each rotation
to find a starting point for your professional
development
Clinical appraisal each rotation to provide feedback
and document progress
No lift and patient transfer training
Internet access on each unit
Individual email address
Six paid study days
Regular unit-based education sessions
Free immunisation Study/conference leave as per EBA
Free staff car parking Supernumerary time at the commencement of each
Salary packaging
rotation
Information technology (IT) training available
Fire, safety, and emergency code training
Self rostering in some clinical areas
Discounted gym membership
Certificate on completion of graduate program
Certificate on completion of graduate programWould you like to know more? For further information about the Graduate Nurse Program, contact the BCH Learning and Development team via email, education@basscoasthealth.org.au or by phoning 03 5671 3280 or 03 5671 3320. So, what are you waiting for? Apply for Bass Coast Health Today.
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