Southern Health is the largest health care provider in Victoria, caring for people through every stage of their life. We service some of the fastest growing areas of Australia in Melbourne’s South-East, Southern and Bayside suburbs, with hospitals at the Monash Medical Centre (Clayton and Moorabbin), Kingston Centre, Dandenong Hospital and Casey Hospital. Due to our size, we can offer you great career opportunities in every nursing speciality.

Through education and research in partnerships with world-renowned research institutions and universities, we are committed to making breakthroughs in treatment and prevention of disease.

Southern Health’s commitment to nursing has been further strengthened through
our partnership with Deakin University and the appointment of the Chair in Nursing, Professor Beverley O’Connell. This move signals the organisation’s increasing commitment to clinical practice underpinned by leading-edge research. Southern Health’s learning and development focus aligns education, research, changing workforce needs, all centred around patient care.

Adjunct Professor Kylie Ward, Executive Director of Nursing and
Midwifery Services, speaking with her nurses.

Meet our Executive Director of Nursing and Midwifery Services for Southern Health, Adjunct Professor Kylie Ward.

Kylie has recently joined Southern Health from New South Wales where she has held a number of Senior Executive positions.

Kylie’s love and passion includes working with nurses and midwives to develop and enhance their skills, proficiency and professionalism in management, education, research and clinical leadership to ensure a collaborative working relationship is achieved to ensure optimal patient outcomes. Kylie also prides herself in promoting and recognising nursing and midwifery achievements.

Her career highlights have been significant improvements in models of care and service delivery, the development of advanced roles for all levels of nurses and midwives, improved patient outcomes in many varied areas, as well as implementing clinical informatics.

Kylie sees her role in senior executive management at Southern Health as an opportunity to advocate for staff and patients as members of the broader community through a patient centred approach to managing health.

Through our partnership with Deakin University (Australia’s second largest School of Nursing) we are actively developing a culture that integrates nursing research, education and practice (IN-REP) into the delivery of safe patient care. It is a culture of clinical inquiry and clinical governance – where evidence-based patient care enhances competent and professional nursing practice.

At Southern Health, we are actively seeking to attract nurses who:

• Have a passion for, and commitment to, life long learning.
• Are critical thinkers and problem solvers.
• Are committed to teamwork and a professional environment.
• Are open to, challenged and excited by change and innovation.
• Are confident in their ability to positively contribute to the patient’s experience of our health care system.
• Have pride in themselves, the profession and public health.

We are committed to attract the best nursing and midwifery staff to our health service, who choose to work collaboratively within an inter-professional and multi-professional team underpinned by shared governance principles and sound methodology to ensure an environment rich in practice improvement and practice development.

If you have a values based approach to the profession and health care delivery then I encourage you to make Southern Health your choice of employment.