Employment: Figtree Private Hospital – a great place to work!

Figtree Private Hospital – a great place to work!

Figtree Private Hospital is an ideal facility to continue your career. We offer our staff the opportunity to demonstrate their experience, skills and training in a friendly and caring acute care environment. We pride ourselves on promoting a culture of innovative and customer focused patient care; we strive to ensure our patients have a great experience. We are proud to provide a relaxed and supportive learning environment for staff, offering varied professional opportunities and development programs.

We are owned by Ramsay Health Care Australia Pty Ltd, Australia’s largest private hospital operator and a well recognised brand in the industry. Ramsay Health Care leads the way in developing the role of private health care in Australia’s balanced health care system. The Company is also recognised as a leader in teaching and research, with an emphasis in its hospitals on both undergraduate and postgraduate training of the future medical and nursing workforce.

Figtree Private Hospital is fully accredited according to the International Standards Organisation (ISO) 9001-2008 Quality Management Systems and the Core Standards for Safety and Quality in Healthcare. Compliance with these internationally recognised standards provide independent confirmation that the hospital is meeting customer statutory and regulatory requirements applicable to the health care industry.

Figtree Private Hospital currently employs over 300 staff in a variety of roles. These include:

• Nursing/ Midwifery.
• CSSD.
• Hospitality staff.
• Administrative.
• Managerial.

The Hospital’s major clinical specialities include: surgical, medical, palliative and maternity services with a range of acute specialties including: coronary care, cardiology, diagnostic cardiac catheterisation, orthopaedics, obstetrics, urology and sleep studies.

We look forward to continuing work with our partner universities in undergraduate clinical placement programs. Figtree Private Hospital in partnership with TAFE NSW has clinical placement programs for Endorsed Enrolled Nurses (EEN). These programs offer experience in medical and surgical nursing as well as specialities of maternity, angiography, day surgery and perioperative nursing. Student Enrolled Nurses are provided with a well supported program including preceptorship, regular clinical rotation reviews and feedback.

As an employee at Figtree Private Hospital you will:

• Be supported by friendly and experienced health professionals.
• Gain experience in an acute, specialist setting.
• Be encouraged to participate in further learning.
• Be embraced and welcomed by your peers.
• Have access to a wide range of employee benefits.
• Be part of a collaborative team between nurses, doctors and caregivers.
• Have access to an excellent preceptorship program.
• Be given opportunities to influence policy decisions.
• Be encouraged to participate in continuous quality improvement practices and programs.

You can achieve a great work-life balance as an employee of Figtree Private Hospital, as we are only 7kms from Wollongong CBD, 5 minutes to Westfield shopping centre and 10 minutes from beautiful Illawarra beaches.

We offer a great range of employee benefits, such as:

• The Ramsay Employee Club – as a member you automatically qualify for an exclusive range of benefits. You have access to over 4,500 suppliers at your fingertips in travel and accommodation, dining and fast food, leisure and entertainment, health and beauty and shopping and retail.

• Private health insurance (corporate rates) with many leading providers.

• Salary packaging.

• Allocation of uniforms.

• Staff immunisation program

• Opportunity to work around Australia.

• On line library service.

• Ongoing education – through in-services on a variety of topics, annual onsite and online compulsory education, funding for external education and attendance at conferences or giving presentations.

• Wellness activities - a wide range of services to support health, personal development and work life balance goals.

• Ramsay Employee Assistance program offering a counselling service.

• Other benefits including computer deals and banking offers.

• Social activities such as BBQ’s and team participation in charity events.

Contact us about a career at Figtree Private Hospital

Connie Porter
Director of Clinical Services
1 Suttor Place Figtree NSW 2525
Phone: 61 2 4255 5017
Fax: 61 2 4255 5064