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Form of workJob reference: 854968
Location: 5092 - MODBURY
Job status: Short Term Contract
Eligibility: Open to Everyone
- Northern Adelaide Local Health Network - Modbury Hospital - Modbury
- Salary: $128,327 - $133,758; Advanced Nurse Unit Manager - RN4; Temporary Full-Time, up until 17 January 2025
About Us:
The Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN) provides care for more than 400,000 people living in the northern metropolitan area of Adelaide and boasts newly redeveloped wards and Emergency and Outpatient Departments, with plans for the addition of more brand-new facilities in the near future. NALHN provides a full range of high-quality medical, surgical, maternity, diagnostic, emergency and support services. NALHN offers a range of primary health care services across the northern metropolitan area of Adelaide, with a focus on providing preventive and health promoting programs in the community, and transition and hospital substitution and avoidance programs targeted at chronic disease and frail aged.
With a workforce of almost 6,500 employees, NALHN works to ensure quality and timely delivery of health care, whilst building a highly skilled, engaged and resilient workforce based on a culture of collaboration, respect, integrity and accountability.
Our core values of respect, integrity and accountability underpin our commitment to provide excellence in care, innovation, creativity, leadership and equity in service provision and health outcomes to the Northern area communities.
At NALHN Everyone Has a Story, Everyone Matters, Everyone Contributes and Everyone Grows.
Benefits of working at NALHN:
From salary packaging to flexible working arrangements, a large range of opportunities for movement and career progression, you'll find there are lots of benefits of working with Northern Adelaide Local Health Network.
Salary packaging is an option for saving money by paying for some of your everyday expenses from your salary before it is taxed.
Across SA Health there are always opportunities for you to develop your skills and career at any of our metropolitan or regional sites.
Relocation assistance may be available for successful applicants from interstate or overseas.
About You:
Are you a dedicated, compassionate and enthusiastic Advanced Nurse Unit Manager looking for an opportunity to join a dynamic, growing healthcare network where you will be part of a supportive team delivering high quality care to the community? If so, then this could be the opportunity for you. This position will offer you professional growth opportunities within a supportive and inclusive culture.
In this role you will have strong interpersonal and communication skills which will enable you to successfully problem solve, resolve conflicts and negotiate, including the ability to engage in difficult conversations, whilst building and maintaining relationships. An ability to effectively manage multiple, diverse and competing priorities and demonstrated resilience within a stressful and complex environment is essential to this role.
About the Role:
An exciting opportunity is presented to work within the Northern Adelaide Local Health Network as a Advanced Nurse Unit Manager within the Continuing Care Team in Aged Care, Rehabilitation & Palliative Care.
Employees classified at this level use their clinical knowledge and experience to provide the pivotal oversight and co- ordination of discharge planning services within NALHN.
The main focus of this role is the line management, coordination and leadership of the nursing and multi- disciplinary team activities, including where relevant, such local resource management as to achieve continuity and quality of patient/client care and outcomes.
You will accept accountability for the outcomes of nursing practices and multidisciplinary outcomes in the specific practice setting, for addressing inconsistencies between practice and policy; and for developing team performance within positive work cultures in the interest of patient/client outcomes.
The successful applicant will Lead, manage, oversee and advise on nursing care and health service delivery for a defined service delivery area which is (by number of patients/clients and/or by clinical complexity and/or breadth and/or professional isolation) demonstrably beyond the usual range for that practice setting.
Employees in these roles practice within the context of the relevant Service Stream Descriptor.
To be eligible for this position, you must be registered or eligible for registration as a Nurse with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia and who holds, or who is eligible to hold, a current practicing certificate.
The South Australian public sector promotes diversity and flexible ways of working including part-time. Applicants are encouraged to discuss the flexible working arrangements for this role.
Appointment will be subject to a satisfactory Criminal History Check.
Check(s)
- DHS Working With Children Check (WWCC)
- DHS Aged Care Sector Employment Screening
Immunisation Risk for this position is - Category A (direct contact with blood or body substances)
SA Health Services are required to implement the Addressing vaccine preventable disease: Occupational assessment, screening and vaccination policy in the workplace.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants are encouraged to apply. Job Ref: 845968
Enquiries
The Office for Aged Care, Rehabilitation & Palliative Care
Phone: (08) 7321 4***
E-mail: ***************@sa.gov.au
Application Closing Date
26 January 2024 - 11.55PM
Attachments
854968 - Advanced Nurse Unit Manager - Continuing Care Team_ACAT - RN4 - Role Description.pdf
* Refer to the SA Health Career Website - How to apply for further information
Flexibility Statement
The South Australian public sector promotes diversity and flexible ways of working including part-time. Applicants are encouraged to discuss the flexible working arrangements for this role.
