Registered Nurse (PACU)

• Full-time and part-time permanent opportunities available for qualified and experienced Registered Nurses in Post-Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU).
  
• Base salary From $76,868 - $107,956 (Registered Nurse level 2-8 salary based on experience) and access to the full salary packaging benefit with Maxxia to maximise your take-home pay.
  
• Be part of Australia’s first and only university-owned, academically integrated healthcare organisation, where clinical excellence, research, and professional development are actively encouraged and supported.

The Role

We are currently seeking experienced Registered Nurses to join our Post-Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU). We have full-time and part-time permanent opportunities available. As a PACU Nurse, you will provide high-quality, evidence-based care to patients emerging from anaesthesia following surgical or procedural interventions. You will monitor and assess patients’ recovery, manage airways, pain, and vital signs, respond to clinical changes with confidence and sound judgement, and ensure safe transfer to the ward or discharge area.

Working collaboratively with anaesthetists, surgeons, and multidisciplinary teams, you will play a vital role in maintaining patient safety and comfort throughout the post-operative recovery phase. Compassion, clinical expertise, and attention to detail are essential to ensuring optimal patient outcomes in this dynamic and fast-paced environment.

Join us in providing exceptional perioperative care and advancing your nursing career in a supportive, growth-focused environment!

Key accountabilities of this role include:

• Delivering high-quality nursing care in accordance with clinical guidelines and patient recovery plans, ensuring patient safety and comfort post-anaesthesia
  
• Monitoring and managing patients’ airways, vital signs, pain, and consciousness levels, escalating concerns as appropriate
  
• Administering medications and treatments accurately and safely
  
• Ensuring all documentation is accurate, complete, and compliant with MQ Health policy and procedures
  
• Participating in the identification, design, and implementation of quality improvement activities, including policy review and development
  
• Demonstrating a collaborative and positive approach within the multidisciplinary team to deliver excellence in patient-centred care

Why Join Us

You’ll play a key role in shaping the future of integrated healthcare in Australia. You’ll join a supportive, collaborative team that is committed to delivering innovative, patient-centred care backed by world-class research and teaching.

At Macquarie University Health , we know working together leads to better health outcomes. This happens when clinicians, researchers, students and staff unite to improve lives through compassionate, coordinated, effective care that is centred around the patient. We are celebrating our 15-year anniversary.

As Australia’s first fully integrated academic health precinct on a university campus, we translate research into faster diagnoses, better treatments and integrated, evidence-based recovery pathways. In this environment, our students receive unique, hands-on learning experiences. That’s how we Heal. Learn. Discover.™

We offer fantastic range of Employee Benefits including:

• Salary sacrifice options and excellent salary packaging benefits (including venue hire, meals, entertainment and novated leasing) so you have great potential to maximise your income working for us
  
• Post graduate study and ongoing education support through scholarship programs
  
• Macquarie University Childcare at a reduced staff rate
  
• Extensive Macquarie University facilities including sporting facilities, gym and pool

More information about our employee benefits can be found here.

Pre-Employment Checks

Macquarie University Health cultivates a workplace defined by safety, ethical conduct, and strong integrity. Prior to completion of an offer of employment, preferred candidates will be required to participate in a combination of pre-employment checks relevant to the role they have applied for.

Your employment is conditional upon the completion and maintenance of all role-required pre-employment or background checks in terms satisfactory to Macquarie University Health.

To Apply

To be considered for this position, you will demonstrate the below requirements in your resume:

• Minimum 2 years’ experience in a PACU, Recovery, or Perioperative environment (highly desirable)
  
• Current AHPRA registration as a Registered Nurse
  
• Proven ability to assess, prioritise, and respond to rapidly changing patient conditions in a critical care setting
  
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to provide reassurance and support to patients and families during recovery
  
• Excellent organisational and time management skills with the ability to multitask effectively in a fast-paced clinical environment
  
• Flexible availability (Monday–Friday preferred, with possible rotating shifts or weekends as required)
  
• Well-developed computer skills including the use of electronic medical records systems, MS Word, Excel and web-based research

Role Specific Conditions

• Valid Working with Children Check (WWCC) for NSW (please provide your WWCC number in your application)
  
• Registered Nurse with the Australian Health Practitioners Regulation Agency (AHPRA)
  
• MQ Health immunisation screening compliance
  
• This position requires a Criminal History Check

General Enquiries: Please contact Talent Acquisition Consultant, Bill Egarchos at bill.egarchos@mq.edu.au

Applications Close Date: Sunday, 1st March 2026, 11:59pm

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