Registered Nurse & Midwifery Program

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West Gippsland Healthcare Group (WGHG) provides acute medical and surgical, obstetric, emergency, community and aged care services, primarily in the Shire of Baw Baw, approximately 100 kms east of Melbourne.

Our Graduate Nurse program aims to provide you with the opportunity to advance your existing and emerging skills and knowledge, in a professional and nurturing environment. We also aim to provide an atmosphere where you will be able to develop into a safe, confident and accountable clinician.

Our program offers:

  • part time positions – minimum of 8 shifts a fortnight.
  • a 12-month program, commencing on February 1st 2027.
  • a variety of shifts including weekends, night duty and public holidays.

Our graduates receive extensive clinical support. We offer a Supervisory/preceptorship model RN Graduate program. There are unit based Clinical Nurse Educators to provide hands-on bedside clinical support and education in a friendly and supportive manner, along with a Continuing Education & Support Coordinator that oversee the entire program. You can be confident that you will have the support you need to achieve your goals.

The West Gippsland Healthcare Group, as a team, is completely committed to helping to develop your career and ensuring that your graduate year will be a rewarding and educational experience.

West Gippsland Healthcare Group are committed to growing a diverse Enrolled Nurse workforce and are therefore offering positions in the following areas:

  • Acute/Aged Care/ Sub-acute – Areas of work may include Aged Care, Sub-Acute (GEM/TCP), Medical unit, Surgical unit, Day surgery, Operating Theatre and the Emergency Department/Short Stay Unit.

Locations you may be asked to work at are the Warragul Hospital site and Andrews House in Trafalgar.

WGHG offers one intake per year, into the Registered Nurse Program. Intakes will commence as per PMCV in June/July of the year before each intake year.

There are two rotations throughout the year, into varied clinical areas. Information regarding rotation areas and dates will be supplied during the application process

Requests for specific clinical rotations will also be discussed at interview and again at the Welcome session, undertaken prior to commencement in the program with the expectation that Graduates will be able to complete at least one rotation in their preferred specialty area.

The program commences with comprehensive orientation sessions run over 4 days.

A minimum of 50 hours of supplementary education and support sessions are provided over the 12 months of the program. These sessions consist of:

  • Paid Study days
  • Tutorial sessions in protected education time
  • Supervision sessions, also conducted in protected education time
  • Unit based, SMART time education

Graduates will be allocated a super numerary time  varying in each unit or ward, of 2-3 shifts, at the beginning of each rotation. Supernumerary time may be extended on a case to case basis, and may be varied, depending on the clinical area and in consultation with the Continuing Education and Support coordinators.

WGHG Registered Nurse Graduate Program is offered to nursing graduates:

  • Who are newly registered with the Nursing & Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA) via the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) as a Registered Nurse (DIV1)
  • Have not previously participated in a Registered Nurse graduate program
  • Following all guidelines of PMCV

We welcome applications from eligible candidates throughout Australia. You don’t have to have completed a clinical placement with us to apply.

The Registered Nurse Graduate program will be advertised on the WGHG internet Employment site and the link listed below, as well as the main platform PMCV.

 All applications for the program will need to come through either of these sites. Do not apply directly to the Learning and Development email address.

All applications must include the following:

  • A covering letter -addressed to the Clinical education and support coordinator.
  • A Certified copy of your completed academic transcript with a legend
  • Succinct Curriculum Vitae
  • Three clinical referees -preferably from a recent adult acute care placement of two weeks or longer and one professional referee.
  • Certified copies of two most recent clinical placement appraisals -at least one must be from an acute placement

To apply, please visit our careers page: Gippsland Health Alliance Jobs and apply to the job title that corresponds with the graduate steam on PMCV you are applying too.

Information sessions relating to the Registered Nurse Graduate program will be run via zoom as well as face to face.

They will be advertised within this tile, close to the program application time.

Please check this area regularly to find information dates and times, and for the link to be able to book into a session.