Graduate Programs for Nurses and Midwives
Recruitment information
Armadale Kalamunda Group (AKG), comprising of Armadale Health Service and Kalamunda Hospital is one of Western Australia’s leading health care providers. We enjoy the benefits of being part of a bigger network of excellent health services through the East Metropolitan Health Service, while retaining our unique identity and relaxed working environment with genuine family friendly work practices
The AKG Graduate Programs start each year in February.
The Registered Midwife Program also has a mid-year intake, commencing in July or August.
To be considered for a position, register at GradConnect (external site). No positions will be allocated outside of this process and time period.
Your path to a brighter nursing future
Armadale Kalamunda Group’s Graduate Programs are designed to support and encourage graduates in their first year of practice to achieve their personal and professional goals and consolidate their clinical practice. Our staff will provide you with support and education as you make the transition from student to registered/enrolled nurse or midwife.
We believe in lifelong learning and development as the key to your success and ours, and deliver a wide range of professional education and learning opportunities to help our staff gain valuable personal and professional skills.
The busy Emergency Department delivers exceptional emergency care to a diverse and growing community of some 182,000 people from the local catchment, with about 60,000 adult, paediatric and obstetric emergency presentations each year.
Kalamunda is a 39-bed specialist palliative care hospital located in the Darling scarp east of the Perth metropolitan area.
Graduate Programs
12-month Registered Midwife Program (Armadale Health Service only)
The Graduate Midwife Program is run on-site at the Maternity Unit where graduate midwives can rotate through inpatient wards, labour and birth suite, Antenatal Assessment Unit, Antenatal Clinics, Visiting Midwife Service, Neonatal Unit and the Maternity Group Practice.
12-month Perioperative Program for Registered Nurses (Armadale Health Service only)
Two places are offered for nurses considering a career in perioperative nursing to specialise in General Surgery, Obstetrics/Gynaecology, Orthopaedics, Urology and Post Anaesthetic Care Unit. They get an introduction to pre and post-operative care in the Same Day Unit and experience in the Endoscopy department.
12-month Mental Health Graduate Program for Registered Nurses (Armadale Mental Health Service only)
This program is designed for graduates wanting to specialise in mental health and provides the opportunity to work across a wide range of practice settings, gaining a broad range of clinical experience, and be provided with regular and ongoing clinical support.
The Armadale Mental Health Service (on the AHS campus) provides inpatient, outpatient and community services such as:
- consultation, assessment and treatment for moderate to severe mental health problems
- individual, group and family therapy
- education on mental health conditions and the medication prescribed
- mental health recovery programs and life skills development.
The program runs in partnership with Notre Dame University.
12 month registered nurse Emergency Department program (64hrs per fortnight)
Our graduate nurse program offers a supported, structured introduction to Emergency nursing, rotating through the ambulatory, general assessment, mental health and paediatric care areas.
12-month Registered Nurse Program Endoscopy (Armadale Health Service and Kalamunda Hospital)
AKG offers a specialty program across two locations where you will gain skills in pre and post-operative care of endoscopy patients, recovery and the roles of scout and endoscopy nurse in the endoscopy suite.