Graduate Nurse & Midwifery Program

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Program Overview

The Eastern Health Graduate Registered Nurse and Midwife Program is progressive, responsive and innovative. We offer over 200 positions across our health service to graduates in three intakes – January, March & July.

Our point of difference:

We offer a variety of speciality clinical areas including medical, surgical, aged medicine, community, mental health, midwifery, and speciality medicine.

We have permanent contracts of employment for all graduates
We offer employment 4 days a week to support work-life balance
We offer leadership opportunities through the Transition to Practice Representative Group
We offer Interprofessional Learning opportunities
More than 95% of our graduates remain in the health service after the graduate year.

Pathways & Rotations

Eastern Health has 6 pathways on offer for Graduate applications:

General Nursing
Combined Nursing/Mental Health
Mental Health
Midwifery
Combined Nursing/Midwifery (18 Months)
Combined Rural and Metropolitan in partnership with Alexandra District Health

Clinical rotation options

General Nursing Pathway
Rotation options:

Aged Care
Cardiac
Community (District Nursing Service)
Day Surgery
Dialysis
Emergency
Endoscopy
Geriatric and Evaluation Medicine (GEM)
Medical
Neurology
Surgical
Paediatrics
Perioperative
Rehabilitation
Renal
Oncology

Combined Nursing/Mental Health Pathway

Nursing rotation options:

Medical
Surgical
Rehabilitation
Geriatric Evaluation Management

Mental Health rotation options:

Adult inpatient unit
Adolescent Inpatient Unit

Mental Health Pathway
Rotation options:

Adult Inpatient Unit
Aged Acute Assessment Unit
Adolescent Inpatient Unit
Community Care Unit
AOD Detoxification and Short Term Support Rehabilitation Unit
Psychiatric Planning and Assessment Unit

EACH – community mental health

Midwifery Pathway
Rotation opportunities:

Birthing Suite
Postnatal
Special Care Nursery
Antenatal Clinic (elective)

Experience opportunities:

Fetal Monitoring
Lactation
EPC (Extended Postnatal Care)

Combined Nursing/Midwifery Pathway
Midwifery rotation opportunities:

Birthing Suite
Postnatal
Special Care Nursery
Antenatal Clinic (elective)

Midwifery Experience opportunities:

Fetal Monitoring
Lactation
EPC (Extended Postnatal Care)

Nursing rotation options:

Acute Medical or Surgical
Special Care Nursery Rotation – NEW this year. Application by EOI

Combined Rural and Metropolitan Pathway (in collaboration with Alexandra District Health)
Alexandra District Health rotation:

Acute ward (with opportunities to experience Urgent Care Centre, Operating Theatre and Community Health)

Eastern Health Rotation:
Options as listed above in General Pathway.

For more information on this program please visit https://adh.org.au/careers/graduate-nurse-programs/

Honours

We are very supportive of graduates who wish to complete Honours whilst participating in the Graduate Program. We have a partnership with Deakin University for the Honours program and we also support students who wish to complete Honours with other Universities.

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Application process

There is a two step process for our 2024 Graduate (Registered) Nursing and Midwifery program:

List your preferred Eastern Health Pathway/s (you may list multiple) as one of your preferences via Allocation Placement Services www.gnmp.pmcv.com.au
All applications must be received online via Eastern Health EH-Mercury (under Nursing Professional Opportunities) and linked to the job advertisement.

Please note: There have been recent changes to the eligibility criteria for the Allocation Placement Service matching process - Australian Trained Temporary Residents (ATTR) also known as international candidates can participate.

Please check www.gnmp.pmcv.com.au for further details.

Eastern Health Application (EH-Mercury) must include:

Cover letter – maximum 1 page

Resume - maximum 2 pages

Include a table summary of clinical placements with date and placement type

Certified copy of your latest academic transcript with grading key
2 x clinical appraisals most relevant to your preferred pathway as outlined below:

Pathway:	Acute	Mental Health	Midwifery
General	X 2 (most recent)
Metro/Rural with Alexandra District Health	X 2 (most recent)
Mental Health	X1 (most recent)	X1
Blended Mental Health	X1 (most recent)	X1
Midwifery			X2
Blended Midwifery			X2

Information Booklet (PDF, 1.2MB)

Contact us

Administration: ttp.admin@easternhealth.org.au

Clinical Nurse Educators: ttpeducators@easternhealth.org.au

Enrolled Nurse Program

Program Overview

Eastern Health are pleased to offer a Graduate Enrolled Nursing Program. This program will offer a welcoming and responsive environment to support newly graduated ENs in their transition from student to EN.

Our point of difference:

We have permanent contracts of employment for all graduates

We offer employment 4 days a week to support work-life balance, 3 days per week if studying Bachelor of Nursing during the program

We offer leadership opportunities through the Transition to Practice Representative Group

We offer Interprofessional Learning opportunities

Have a look at our EN Graduate Nurse Program booklet (PDF, 1.2MB)

Duration of program

The Enrolled Nurse Graduate Program is 12 months at 0.8EFT (8 shifts per fortnight). For those studying a Bachelor of Nursing during the graduate program, the program is 18 months’ durations at 0.6 (6 shifts per fortnight) EFT.

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Eastern Health has 2 pathways on offer for Graduates:

General Nursing (Aged medicine, acute and residential aged care rotations)

Mental Health (Adult and Adolescent Inpatient Units, AOD unit rotations)

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We offer three (3) intakes for the EN Graduate Program: January, March and July.

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Our information sessions will be online. We will inform you about

Our graduate program

Recruitment processes including support with application and interview tips

Opportunities for you as an Eastern Health employee.

It is a great chance for you to meet and ask questions with our Transition to Practice team. Tickets are free, but do need to be pre-booked via Eventbrite .

Application process

All applications must be received online via Eastern Health EH-Mercury (under Nursing Professional Opportunities) and linked to the job advertisement.

Application must include:

Cover letter – maximum 1 page, 12 point font addressing the following question: Why have you applied for the Eastern Health Graduate Enrolled Nurse Program and what qualities do you have that make you an ideal candidate for this position?

Resume- maximum 2 pages

Responses to short answer questions listed in mercury job advertisement

Certified copy of your latest academic transcript with grading key

2 x clinical appraisals most relevant to your preferred pathway (Mental Health- 1 X acute, 1X Mental Health; Acute- 1X Acute, 1 X Subacute)

Early Career Nurse Program (ECN)

The Early Career Nurse and Early Career Midwife Programs (ECN/M) enables recently qualified Registered Nurses and/or Midwives who have not undertaken a Graduate Program an opportunity to enter the Eastern Health nursing and midwifery workforce in a supported program.

Registered Nurses and Midwives who are eligible for this program meet all three of the following criteria:

You have qualified and registered with AHPRA in the last 3 years and have been working on a fixed term, part time or full time basis.
You have not been accepted into and commenced a formal Graduate Nurse/Midwifery Program.
You will have full working rights in Australia at the commencement of the ECN program.

Acute experience is viewed favourably but not essential. Perhaps you have been working in subacute, aged care, primary care or doing some agency nursing - we can offer you a supported pathway into nursing and/or midwifery at Eastern Health.

You will benefit from a structured, comprehensive induction program, regular study days, clinical assessments and regular feedback.

The Early Career Nurse/ Midwife programs will commence in March, July or September .

For more information in on how to apply, please find the job advertisement on eMercury

If you have any queries or would like any other information, please feel free to email us: TTPeducators@easternhealth.org.au

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Graduate Nurse & Midwifery Program

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Program Overview

Pathways & Rotations

Clinical rotation options

Honours

Information Sessions

Application process

Information Booklet (PDF, 1.2MB)

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Enrolled Nurse Program

Duration of program

Early Career Nurse Program (ECN)

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