AN120435 – Private Hospital Industry Nurses' (State) Award
32. DEPUTY DIRECTORS OF NURSING, ASSISTANT DIRECTORS OF NURSING
(i) The following appointments shall be made in hospitals with adjusted daily averages of occupied beds as specified hereunder:
Less than 40 beds- a Deputy Director of Nursing except where
(a) the Registered Nurses at the hospital are all given the same duties and no Registered Nurse is delegated Deputy Director of Nursing duties; and
(b) the Director of Nursing perceives no requirement for a Deputy Director of Nursing to be employed.
40 beds and over but less than 75 beds - a Deputy Director of Nursing except where
(a) at least two full time equivalent Nursing Unit Managers are employed; and
(b) the Director of Nursing perceives no requirement for a Deputy Director of Nursing to be employed.
75 beds and over but less than 150 beds - a Deputy Director of Nursing
150 beds and over - a Deputy Director of Nursing, and one or more Assistant Directors of Nursing.
Provided that no Deputy Director of Nursing employed as at 1 January 1998 shall be dismissed or demoted as a result of the implementation of this clause.
(ii) Appointments under subclause (i) of this clause, shall be made within two calendar months of the date this award becomes operative and thereafter within two calendar months of the occurrence of a vacancy. In default of appointment within the said period of two calendar months of the occurrence of a vacancy, the registered nurse employed as such or in a higher classification who has customarily relieved, in the vacant position, or if no one has so customarily relieved, the registered nurse employed in the same or the next senior classification at the hospital, shall be deemed to be appointed until such time as another appointment is made by the hospital.
(iii) This clause shall not apply to a hospital using members, novices or aspirants of religious orders where a member of an order carries out the duties under this clause of an Assistant Director of Nursing or Deputy Director of Nursing.
(iv) This clause shall not apply to a hospital which is owned by two or more registered nurses who are actively engaged as directors of nursing in the running of the hospital.
