Work Type: Ongoing - Full-time
Salary: $120,000 - $130,000
Grade: Grade not specified
Occupation: Medicine, nursing and midwifery
Location: Melbourne - CBD and Inner Metro suburbs
Reference: 6328
About the role:
Western Health’s Mental Health & Wellbeing Division is seeking an accomplished and motivated Nurse Unit Manager (NUM)/Program Manager to lead Unit 3, a contemporary adult inpatient mental health unit at the Sunshine Mental Health and Wellbeing Centre.
Key responsibilities:
As the NUM, you will provide visible, accessible and values-based leadership to a diverse multidisciplinary team, ensuring the delivery of safe, coordinated, person-centred and recovery-focused care. You will be responsible for the operational, clinical and professional governance of the unit, with key priorities including:
This role requires a leader who brings confidence, accountability and emotional intelligence, and who can inspire staff through periods of growth, complexity and service evolution. You will work closely with divisional leadership, clinical partners, and broader stakeholders to ensure Unit 3 continues to deliver high-quality care aligned with Western Health’s strategic priorities.
Unit 3 is an award-nominated service operating within a state-of-the-art mental health facility designed to enhance safety, therapeutic engagement and staff wellbeing. The unit has been:
About Western Health
Western Health is one of the largest healthcare providers in Victoria, caring for a vibrant, diverse and rapidly growing community of one million people in Melbourne’s western suburbs.
With more than 13,000 staff, Western Health delivers 800,000+ occasions of care every year, providing high-quality, person-centred care across every life stage.
We provide a combination of hospital, community-based, at-home and in-reach services to aged, adult and paediatric patients and newborn babies. Specialties include oncology, renal, mental health, women’s health and maternity, chronic diseases, geriatrics and cardiology.
We have remarkable strengths in chronic disease, complex care and developing innovative and sustainable healthcare solutions. Our experience at the coalface of healthcare delivery for some of Australia’s most culturally and socioeconomically diverse and vulnerable populations provides us with unique insights into the most pressing health challenges.
Western Health operates four acute public hospitals: Sunshine Hospital (including Joan Kirner Women’s and Children’s), Footscray Hospital, Williamstown Hospital and Bacchus Marsh Hospital. We also operate Sunbury Community Hospital, Sunshine Mental Health and Wellbeing Centre, Melton Health and Community Services, Bacchus Marsh Community Health Centre, Caroline Springs Community Health Centre and Grant Lodge Residential Aged Care in Bacchus Marsh. Western Health also provides the primary healthcare service at the Dame Phyllis Frost Centre, a women’s prison located in Ravenhall.
Why join us?
Compensation and benefits
Learning and development opportunities
Community impact and inclusion
Organisational culture and environment
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Closing date: 11:59pm on 26 December 2025.
Enquiries: For further information about this role, contact Kathleen Kelly on 0417 149 448.
Western Health is an equal opportunity employer committed to attracting and retaining diversity in our workforce. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
Western Health is committed to providing a safe environment for the children and young people who are involved in our services, sites and operations. We follow and abide by all legislative requirements to keep children and young people safe.
All appointments are made subject to a satisfactory Police Record Check, an Immunisation Status Clearance and a Working with Children Check (if applicable).
Western Health does not accept unsolicited resumes/applications from recruitment agencies.