Monash Health is Victoria’s largest and most comprehensive health service. For more than 170 years, Monash Health and its predecessors have provided safe, high-quality healthcare for people at every life stage.

With more than 24,000 employees, we provide care to south-eastern metropolitan Melbourne and rural Victoria from over 40 locations, via telehealth, within local communities and in people’s homes. Each year:

• We provide more than 3.8 million episodes of care to our community,
• More than 310,000 people are admitted to our hospitals,
• Close to 269,000 people receive care at our four emergency departments,
• We respond to more than 65,000 ambulance arrivals,
• We perform more than 82,000 surgical operations, and
• We birth more than 10,500 babies.

As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to a fair, non-discriminatory workplace that maximises the talent, potential and contribution of all.

Monash Health is committed to the safety and wellbeing of all children, including those under the care and supervision of its services. Monash Health recognises the importance of, and its responsibility for, ensuring a safe and supportive environment which respects the rights of children and fosters their enrichment and wellbeing.

Monash Health’s approach to creating and maintaining a child safe environment is guided by the core belief that every child has access to world class care and support. Applicants must familiarise themselves with Monash Health’s Code of Conduct and Child Safety Policy available on our website.

Our Values

Integrity: Honesty, open and transparent, admit mistakes, maintains confidentiality, fairness, builds trust.
​Compassion: Empathy, sensitivity, concern for others, interacts with dignity, tolerance, anticipates needs
​Accountability: Understands roles, uses resources wisely, delivers on time, timely decision making, achieves stretch goals, takes responsibility for performance
​Respect: Builds relationships, courteous, listens and understands, gives, and receives feedback, sensitivity and understanding, values difference and individual worth
​Excellence: Supports creativity and innovation, proactive and solution-focused, seeks out opportunities, embraces quality improvement, professionalism

About the Cranbourne Community Hospital portfolio

The Operations Director/Director of Nursing (DON) Cranbourne Community Hospital will be accountable for leading and managing the operation of the portfolio. In addition to Cranbourne Community Hospital, the role carries broader responsibility as the Director of Nursing for all Monash Health community sites, supporting consistency and excellence in nursing practice across the community service network.

The Cranbourne Community Hospital is a small public community hospital at 6 Lehman Lane, Cranbourne East. The Cranbourne Community Hospital will provide a range of services including day surgery, urgent care clinic, renal dialysis, specialist consulting, child and family, allied and community health, dental, child, youth and family services, early in life mental health services, South Eastern Centre Against Sexual Assault (SECASA), mental health, diagnostic imaging, pathology and pharmacy.

Community hospitals play a crucial role in providing accessible healthcare in local communities. Strategically positioned in growing communities like Cranbourne, they offer residents convenient access to essential health services, eliminating the need to travel long distances. Community hospitals serve as vital healthcare hubs, providing accessible care, engaging with local communities, and contributing to overall wellbeing. Their impact extends beyond medical treatment, fostering healthier communities.

The Cranbourne Community Hospital aims to achieve the following benefits:

• Better services closer to home – the facility will provide more locally available public healthcare options and better access to important everyday health services close to home.
• Stronger links to specialist care – will help keep the local community healthy by providing links to other local healthcare providers and community services including GPs, allied health services, specialists, social services, and major hospitals if more complex care is required.
• Reduced pressure on major hospitals (e.g. Casey Hospital) – this facility will assist major hospitals to focus on critical care, complex health issues, surgeries, emergencies, and trauma.
• Meeting increased demand – as Victoria’s population grows and healthcare needs change, the Cranbourne Community Hospital will help meet increasing demand for public and community health services.

The specific accountabilities will include the delivery of agreed service profiles, financial performance within budget and ensuring the highest levels of quality and safety. The delivery of these will be supported by managing risk, patient safety and clinical governance within the Program and ensuring that effective systems are in place to support a high standard of practice.

Monash Health is the quaternary provider of Nephrology Services in the southeast corridor of metropolitan Melbourne and regional Victoria. Services include chronic kidney disease prevention and management, kidney and kidney-pancreas transplantation, a full suite of extracorporeal and peritoneal dialysis kidney replacement therapies, supportive care and comprehensive Nephrology research, education and training programs.

Monash Health provides Victoria’s largest dialysis service. Our multidisciplinary teams provide holistic services that are designed and located to support a range of patient choices in a range of locations including inpatient, home and satellite dialysis.

Under the Department of Health Victoria Renal Capability Framework 2019, Monash Health is a level 6 Hub provider with governance and support system responsibilities for its metropolitan, regional and rural dialysis partners.