Nurse Managers manage a health service unit or sub-unit of a hospital, aged care or community health care facility, supervises nursing staff and financial resources to enable the provision of safe, cost-effective nursing care within a specified field or for a particular unit, and monitors quality, clinical standards and professional development of nurses.

Skill Level

1

Alternative Titles

• Charge Nurse
• Nurse Supervisor
• Nurse Unit Manager

Unless you are exempt in very limited circumstances, you are required to have a positive Skills Assessment to apply for the visas listed above.

Skills Assessment authority for Nurse Manager is Australian Nursing & Midwifery Accreditation Council (ANMAC). To have a positive skills assessment, you must meet the following criteria:

• ANMAC uses five criteria to assess the skills of applicants. Applicants are required to meet all requirements to obtain a positive skills assessment
  • Proof of Identity
    • Applicants must provide evidence of passport, change of name documents and a passport sized photo
  • English Language Proficiency
    • IELTS Academic Test – minimum score of 7 in each component
    • OET – minimum score of B in each component
    • PTE Academic – minimum overall score of 65
    • TOEFL iBT – minimum total score of 94 and minimum scores of 24 in listening and reading, 27 in writing and 23 in speaking
  • Educational Equivalence
    • Applicants are assessed against the current Australian nursing and midwifery educational standards
    • Applicants must provide graduation certificates and basic transcripts from all nursing or midwifery courses that are completed
    • Full Applicants must also provide a transcript that details the number of hours completed in both theoretical and practical components of the relevant nursing or midwifery course
  • Professional Practice
    • The applicant must have practised as a nurse or midwife in the past 5 years
    • Applicants must provide professional references that meet the following criteria:
      • Official letterhead
      • Written by a direct supervisor who is a nurse or midwife
      • Dated
      • Contain an original signature
      • Includes hospital email address and contact phone number for organisation *note mobile numbers are not accepted
      • ANMAC provide a Professional Reference Template for applicants to use

Manage health service units and sub-units of hospitals, aged care and community health care facilities, supervise nursing staff and financial resources to enable the provision of safe, cost effective nursing care within specified fields or for particular units, and monitor quality, clinical standards and professional development of nurses.
Directors of Nursing are excluded from this unit group. Directors of Nursing are included in Unit Group 1342 Health and Welfare Services Managers.

Tasks

• Developing, implementing and monitoring policies and objectives of nursing care as they apply to units, staff and community groups
• Coordinating the allocation of human and material resources for a health service unit such as recruitment of staff, human resource management, preparation of budgets and fiscal management
• Monitoring and controlling the performance of nursing and support staff within the unit, and providing leadership
• Initiating studies to evaluate the effectiveness of nursing services in the unit in relation to objectives, costs and nursing care
• Promoting working relationships with community agencies and health and education providers
• Contributing to organisational objectives in relation to quality, safety and risk management

Skill Level

Occupations in this unit group have a level of skill commensurate with a bachelor degree or higher qualification and at least five years relevant experience (ANZSCO Skill Level 1).

Registration or licensing is required.

Occupations in this Group

• 254311 Nurse Manager