Nurse Unit Manager - Macalister

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 Macalister Unit 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 to join our growing team on a full time (1.0EFT) ongoing basis.

We are seeking an experienced and dynamic Nurse Unit Manager – Macalister Unit to lead the delivery of high-quality, recovery-focused mental health care within a specialised inpatient setting. Responsible for the operational, clinical, financial, and workforce management of the Macalister Unit, you will provide strategic leadership to multidisciplinary teams, drive quality improvement initiatives, and ensure the provision of safe, person-centred care. This leadership role offers an opportunity to influence service development, support staff excellence, and improve outcomes for consumers receiving acute mental health and psychogeriatric care.

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

The role of the Nurse Unit Manager is to:

• Provide overall clinical, operational, and strategic leadership for the Macalister Unit, ensuring the delivery of safe, high-quality, recovery-oriented mental health care.
• Lead and develop multidisciplinary teams through effective workforce planning, recruitment, performance management, supervision, and professional development.
• Manage unit performance, including budgets, staffing, quality indicators, accreditation requirements, risk management activities, and compliance with legislative and regulatory standards.
• Drive quality improvement, clinical governance, research, and service development initiatives that enhance consumer outcomes and support best-practice mental health care.
• Build strong partnerships with consumers, carers, community agencies, clinicians, and stakeholders to support integrated and person-centred care pathways.
• Oversee patient flow, clinical review processes, reduction of restrictive interventions, aged care compliance requirements, and implementation of evidence-based care practices.

About you

Ideal candidates for this role will have:

• Registered Nurse (Division 1) with current AHPRA registration and postgraduate qualifications in Mental Health Nursing.
• Extensive mental health nursing experience, including a minimum of five years' clinical experience and demonstrated success in leadership and management roles.
• Strong knowledge of contemporary mental health practice, recovery-oriented care, clinical governance, quality improvement frameworks, and relevant legislation including the Mental Health and Wellbeing Act.
• Proven ability to lead, motivate, develop, and support multidisciplinary teams while fostering a positive workplace culture.
• Demonstrated experience managing budgets, resources, change initiatives, performance improvement activities, and complex operational challenges.
• Highly developed communication, stakeholder engagement, and decision-making skills, with a commitment to delivering exceptional consumer-centred mental health care.

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 Anna Baranova, General Manager Acute & Bed Based Mental Health email on 🔒 Email hidden — listing expired for a confidential discussion.

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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: 🔒 Email hidden — listing expired 

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: 14 October 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.