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Intensive Care at Home is currently looking for a nurse manager for Intensive Care at Home in Victoria.

My name is Patrik Hutzel from intensivecareathome.com.

Today, I want to talk about our latest job ad that we’ve got going and our latest search for a senior manager for Intensive Care at Home, for a nurse manager in the state of Victoria. Let’s talk about Intensive Care at Home as such, and then we’ll go into the specifics and the particulars of the role and the person that we’re looking for.

So, Intensive Care at Home is proud to be the first accredited Intensive Care at Home nursing service in Australia. Having a proven, innovative, safe, and solid third-party framework to deliver Intensive Care at Home nursing care enables us to look after the highest acuity and sickest patients in the community in Australia safely. This proven model of care is revolutionizing healthcare and intensive care at a rapid speed, creating value for patients, families, ICUs, pediatric ICUs, hospitals, and funding bodies alike.

The intellectual property we have built for Intensive Care at Home nursing services enables us to attract the best, most motivated, enthusiastic and most amazing ICU and pediatric ICU nurses. Therefore, Intensive Care at Home is in a position to employ a team with hundreds of years of ICU and pediatric ICU experience combined, giving us the ability to look after more and more long-term ICU and pediatric ICU patients at home, which has been formally unheard of until 2012 in Australia.

So, here is the opportunity. As a fast growing company, we at Intensive Care at Home have an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated clinical nurse manager on a full-time basis for maternity leave cover. We’re looking for a highly skilled nurse manager who’s looking for a new challenges or for a new challenge. The successful candidate must have the drive and the ability to lead a growing business and a growing CCRN nursing workforce in the community with an existing and also an exciting nursing team to promote unity and high quality patient care.

So, to join our friendly and passionate team at Intensive Care at Home, you must:

• Have proven experience at a senior ICU nursing management level
• Have a genuine interest in and respect for the unique personality, history, and values of our clients and the company
• Have the capacity to build secure and trustworthy relationships with both patients and family members, and with our team
• Be flexible with the ability to adapt to change, and
• Be a positive team player

Here are the minimum requirements:

• Minimum of 5 years ICU and pediatric ICU experience with a postgraduate critical care qualifications
• Minimum of 2 years nurse unit manager or associate nurse unit manager experience
• An in-depth understanding or an ability to learn about Intensive Care at Home
• You must be a fast learner, because you will need to demonstrate how you have done things in the past and how you can quickly adapt
• Some travel within the state of Victoria may be required as and when the need arises
• You must have the ability to innovate
• You must have the ability to lead a large remote intensive care nursing workforce
• You must also have a proven track record of achieving challenging KPIs within a budget
• You must have a positive attitude with all stakeholders
• You must have a “can do” attitude and a “no excuses” and “do whatever it takes” approach
• You must have excellent clinical documentation practice and operational nursing skills
• You also must be filling nursing shifts as and when the need arises as a leader
• Sound knowledge and understanding of rostering
• Work collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders
• The ability to take on new challenges and willingness to work outside of your comfort zone
• You can embrace a results-driven environment with a high degree of accountability
• You must be able to lead, manage, and motivate the nursing team in a challenging remote environment
• You are also needing to develop policies and procedures in collaboration with internal and sometimes external stakeholders
• The working knowledge or the ability to learn about NDIS (National Disability Insurance Scheme), TAC (Transport Accident Commission), DVA (Department of Veteran Affairs) and other funding bodies
• You must have excellent communication skills and strong negotiation skills
• The ability to motivate teams, clients, and stakeholders
• You must have and demonstrate strong customer service ethos and commitment to quality and continuous improvement
• You also need a high degree of self-awareness, and
• You must be dedicated to support our hardworking and passionate nurses at all times, and prove an extensive experience in clinical leadership and management of a team.

What do we offer? Opportunity to join the market leader of Intensive Care at Home in this niche industry within a high achieving dynamic team. There’s excellent career growth and development opportunities, competitive remuneration and salaries, bonus payments on KPIs achieved, working remotely, company car, supportive culture, flexible working hours, mentoring, and coaching.

If you believe you have the skills, values, and expertise to perform the role of nurse manager, please send your CV today to Shebon at [email protected], also posted our online advertisement below this video.

So, with Intensive Care at Home, we are currently sending our ICU and critical care nurses into the home, 24 hours a day. We are providing the following:

• Home care services for ventilated  adults & children with tracheostomies
• Genuine alternative to a long-term stay in intensive care/ long-term acute care
• Tracheostomy care
• Home care services for patients on non-invasive ventilation – Home BIPAP (Bilevel Positive Airway Pressure), Home CPAP (Continuous Positive Airway Pressure)
• Home TPN (Total Parenteral Nutrition)
• Home IV potassium and home IV magnesium infusions, IV fluids, and IV antibiotics
• Provides central line management, PICC (Peripherally Inserted Central Catheter) line management, Hickman’s line management, as well as port management at home.
• Provides nasogastric tube  and PEG (Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy) tube management at home
• Palliative care services at home
• Use cough assist machines for our clients for airway clearance

We’re also sending our critical care nurses into the home for emergency department bypass services. We have done so successfully as part of the Western Sydney Local Area Health District, their in-touch program, saving approximately $2,000 per patient that we keep at home, instead of them going to an emergency department .

That also means, we’re also in a position to cut the cost of an intensive care bed by around 50%. An intensive care bed costs between $5,000 to $6,000 per bed day. Our services costs between $2,500 to $3,000 per bed day and we’re freeing up the most sought-after bed in the hospital, which is the ICU bed. Most importantly, we’re improving the quality of life for patients and their families which is a win-win situation for all stakeholders. Of course, quality of life is much improved surrounded by families instead of staying in an intensive care unit.

With Intensive Care at Home, we are currently operating all around Australia in all major capital cities as well as in all regional and rural areas. We’re an NDIS (National Disability Insurance Scheme) approved service provider all around Australia, TAC (Transport Accident Commission) and WorkSafe in Victoria, iCare in New South Wales, NIISQ (National Injury Insurance Scheme in Queensland), as well as the Department of Veteran Affairs (DVA) all around Australia. Our clients and we, as a service provider, have also received funding through public hospitals, private health funds, as well as Departments of Health.

We are currently the only service provider in Australia that has achieved third-party accreditation for Intensive Care at Home nursing in 2025. We have been achieving this level of accreditation since 2012. No other provider in Australia has achieved this high level of accreditation in the community and has created more intellectual property when it comes to Intensive Care at Home nursing than we have. This puts us in a position to employ hundreds of years of critical care nursing experience combined in the community. No other service provider in 2025 employs a higher skill level in the community than we do which enables us to look after the highest acuity adults and children in the community in Australia safely.

If you’re at home already and you’re watching this, or you’re stuck in an ICU, like in our case study today or if you’re going to the hospital and ED all the time and you realize that you don’t have the right level of support, I’ll give you another tangible and real-world example today, very similar to what I gave you a minute ago. One of our first clients when we first got started over 10 years ago in 2012, was a client who was at home initially on a ventilator with a tracheostomy with a support worker model 24/7. Of course, support workers are not equipped to look after a ventilated and tracheostomy client. That is dangerous and it’s negligent. Having support workers looking after a client at home on a ventilator with a tracheostomy is like flying the airplane with the cabin crew instead of the pilot because anyone on a ventilator with a tracheostomy is at very high risk of medical emergencies 24/7 or even at risk of dying if they don’t have a team of critical care nurses looking after them 24/7 at home. This is actually evidence-based and is documented in our Mechanical Home Ventilation Guidelines that you can find on our website at intensivecareathome.com.

Think about it, in an intensive care unit in a hospital, you wouldn’t have support workers looking after your critically ill loved one or after any critically ill patient on a ventilator with a tracheostomy. So, why would anyone in their right mind would do that in a home care environment in the community?

So, this client found out about us eventually and the ICU that he went back to all the time also knew about us and eventually reached out to us. We were proving our concept with this client very fast. When we worked with the ventilated and tracheostomy client, we sent him intensive care nurses, 24 hours a day. He never ever went back into ICU ever again as long as we worked with the client. We were proving our concept there very fast.

We can do the same for you if you’re not safe at home which includes the advocacy for funding that goes along with it. We have always successfully advocated for our clients. Otherwise, we would not be in business. The same is applicable for those stuck in an ICU, similar to our case study today or if you’re going back to ED all the time, reach out to us. We’ll make it happen for you as well. We can take you through the right steps including NDIS or other funding bodies and the advocacy that needs to go along with it.

This is also why we are providing Level 2 and Level 3 NDIS Support Coordination . We have a team of NDIS Support Coordinators, and they have a wealth of knowledge. I’ve done an interview with Amanda Riches one of our NDIS Support Coordinators, and I’ll put a link to an interview with Amanda in the written version of this blog. We’re also providing TAC case management and WorkSafe case management in Victoria.

If you’re an NDIS Support Coordinator or a case manager from another organization watching this, and you’re looking for nursing care for your participants, please reach out to us as well. If you’re looking for funding for nursing care for your participants, and you don’t know how to go about it, and what evidence to provide, I encourage you to reach out to us as well. We will help you with the right level of funding and with the right level of advocacy. We’re also providing NDIS specialist nursing assessments done by critical care nurses with a legal nurse consulting background.

If you are a critical care nurse and you’re looking for a career change, and you want to join a very progressive, dynamic, and high-performing team of critical care nurses in the community, we are employing hundreds of years of critical care nursing experience combined. If you are looking for a career change, we’re currently hiring for jobs for critical care nurses in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, in Albury, Wodonga, in Bendigo, in Geelong, and in Warragul in Victoria. If you have worked in critical care nursing for a minimum of 2 years pediatric ICU, ED, and you have already completed a postgraduate critical care nursing qualification, we will be delighted hearing from you.

I do have a disclaimer though, because we are offering a tailor-made solution for our clients, which includes regular staff, our clients also do want the same staff coming over and over again because they are so vulnerable and so special, and that’s why we need regular staff. So, if you’re looking for agency work where you can come and go, this will not be the right fit for you. We are looking for consistency and our clients are looking for consistency. So please, only apply with us if you can give us regular and consistent availabilities for shifts and you’re really keen on building relationships with us and with our clients.

If you are an intensive care specialist or an ED specialist, we also want to hear from you. We’re currently expanding our medical team as well. We can also help you eliminate your bed blocks in your ICU and in your ED for your long-term patients, or for your regularly readmitting patients with our critical care nursing team at home. We’re here to help you take the pressure off your ICU and ED beds. In most cases, you won’t even pay for it. Even if you do pay for it, it is so much more cost-effective than what you’re paying for in ICU and ED, and you get the same level of care.

If you’re a hospital executive watching this and you have bed blocks in your ICU, ED, and respiratory wards, or home TPN, please reach out to us as well. We can help you eliminate your bed blocks very fast.

If you’re in the U.S. or in the U.K. and you’re watching this and you need help, we want to hear from you as well. We can help you there privately with one-on-one consulting and with hiring nurses privately.

Once again, our website is intensivecareathome.com. Call us on one of the numbers on the top of our website or simply send us an email to [email protected].

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Thank you so much for watching.

This is Patrik Hutzel from intensivecareathome.com and I will talk to you in a few days.

Take care for now.