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Registered Nurse

Location: 

Bendigo

Company:  Bendigo Health

Work in an environment that offers:

  • Excellent opportunities for career progression and professional development within a leading regional health service!
  • Experience a diverse range of surgical specialties and procedures in a new, modern facility!
  • A dynamic and growing health service that embraces new technologies

 

The Position 

Job Reference: 4486

Position Title: Registered Nurse - Anaesthetics & Recovery
Classification: YP3 - YP9
Salary per hour (exc. super): $43.82 - $54.41
Hours per fortnight: Up to 80 (including an ADO every 4 weeks if working 80 hours)
Employment Status: Ongoing Full Time or Part Time

Closing date: 03/09/2026

 

Join Our Dynamic Perioperative Team

Are you an experienced Anaesthetic and Recovery Nurse looking for your next challenge in a fast-paced, supportive, and highly rewarding environment? We are seeking motivated and skilled nurses to join our growing perioperative team delivering high-quality patient care across a busy 24-hour surgical service.

About the Role

As an Anaesthetic and Recovery Nurse, you will be working within a modern perioperative department comprising 12 operating theatres that support a diverse range of surgical specialties. You will play a vital role in delivering safe, evidence-based care throughout the perioperative journey, working collaboratively with anaesthetists, surgeons, and multidisciplinary teams.

What We Offer

  • Opportunity to work in a busy and varied 12-theatre complex
  • Exposure to a broad range of surgical specialties and procedures
  • Supportive and collaborative team environment
  • Ongoing professional development opportunities
  • A challenging and rewarding role within a 24-hour service

 

About You

To be successful in this role, you will have:

  • Current registration with AHPRA as a Registered Nurse
  • Recent experience in Anaesthetic and/or Recovery Nursing
  • Excellent clinical assessment and critical thinking skills
  • Strong communication and teamwork abilities
  • Commitment to providing safe, patient-centred care
  • Ability to perform effectively in a fast-paced environment

Roster Requirements

This position operates within a 24-hour service and requires flexibility to work a rotating roster, including:

  • Day shifts
  • Evening shifts
  • Night shifts
  • Weekends
  • Public holidays
  • On-call responsibilities

 

Apply Now!

If you are a dedicated and experienced Anaesthetic and Recovery Nurse who thrives in a busy perioperative environment and is committed to delivering exceptional patient outcomes, we would love to hear from you.

 

Working with Bendigo Health

Bendigo Health are a leader in regional health care, combining outstanding services with a strong education, training and personal development culture.

Created by our community in the 1850s, we have a long, proud history of delivering excellent care to our community.

Our organisation is diverse, welcoming and committed to delivering our vision of Excellent Care. Every Person, Every Time.

Bendigo Health has around 5000 staff and a catchment area covering a quarter of the size of Victoria. The three main campuses of Bendigo Health are in Bendigo, with many services extended to regional settings including areas such as Mildura, Echuca, Swan Hill, Kyneton and Castlemaine.

  • We offer a fantastic range of benefits for our staff, including: Staff health and wellbeing programs
  • Career development and education opportunities
  • Generous salary packaging opportunities, to increase your take-home pay each fortnight
  • Flexible Working Arrangements
  • Use of staff gym and pool and access to other fitness facilities through fitness passport program

If successful for a position at Bendigo Health you must provide evidence of your full immunisation record as part of the on boarding process.

 

Your New Division 

Bendigo Health's Surgical Services Directorate is a dynamic and growing service providing comprehensive surgical care across operating theatres, day surgery, inpatient surgical units and specialist outpatient clinics. Delivering both elective and emergency surgery across multiple specialties, including General Surgery, Orthopaedics, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Ophthalmology, Paediatrics, Urology and Plastic Surgery, the directorate is committed to delivering safe, high-quality, patient-centred care to the communities of the Loddon Mallee region.

 

Bendigo Region

Bendigo is one of Victoria’s largest regional cities making it a great city to live and work in. Bendigo provides services for the region’s population of over 320,000 and so the city offers excellent schools, shopping and cultural precincts, sporting facilities and various tertiary facilities. We can offer generous flexible working arrangements - giving you more time to enjoy the fantastic restaurants, beautiful parks, walking trails and wineries within our region.

 

Interested?

We’d love to hear from you!  Please ensure that you attach a cover letter and an up-to-date copy of your resume.  

Need more information?  Please contact Shakyra Clark, Nurse Unit Manager on 03 5454 7975 for a confidential discussion.  

 

Diversity and Inclusion

Bendigo Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We embrace diversity and social inclusion and encourage people from a diverse cultural background, people with disabilities and or Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander people to apply.

 

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