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Salary- Base Salary: $115,459 – $123,981 (p.a.)
- Total Effective Package: $140,205 – $151,519 (p.a.)
- Up to $7,000 for relocation assistance
Why Congress?
For over 40 years, Congress has provided support and advocacy for Aboriginal people in the struggle for justice and equity. Since that time, Congress has expanded to become the largest Aboriginal community-controlled health organisation in the Northern Territory, providing a comprehensive, holistic and culturally-appropriate primary health care service to Aboriginal people living in and nearby Alice Springs, including five remote communities; Amoonguna, Ntaria (and Wallace Rockhole), Santa Teresa, Utju (Areyonga) and Mutitjulu.
What’s in it for you?
Central Australian Aboriginal Congress not only offers rewarding career options, but a wide range of employee benefits including;
- Competitive salaries
- Six (6) weeks’ annual leave
- Generous salary packaging
- A strong commitment to Professional Development
- Access to the Congress health services for you and your family at no cost
- Eligible to apply up to $7,000 for relocation assistance
- District allowance and Remote Benefits
- Total effective package includes: base salary, district allowance, superannuation, leave loading, and estimated tax saving from salary packaging options.
What’s the role?
- The Clinical Educator provides clinical support and training in a clinic environment and coordinates professional development while fostering a mentor role across Congress Clinics including assessment and demonstration of clinical procedures and best practice in client centred care.
- The position facilitates clinical placements for nursing and allied health students and supports graduate Aboriginal Health Practitioners (AHP) and Nurses by providing on-the-job clinical and career development support in town and remote clinics for practice within the Aboriginal Primary Health Care clinical environment.
- Occasional travel to our Congress remote Clinics is an inherent requirement of the position – most of the Clinical training is delivered/coordinated in Alice Springs.
Is the role right for you?
- Registered as a Registered Nurse with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency and able to conduct clinical care in the primary health care setting
- Demonstrated experience with mentoring and supporting health professional students or graduate nurses through the complexities of clinical placement and meeting registration requirements
- Able to demonstrate extensive experience working in a primary health care settings in particular Aboriginal community-controlled health services.
- Excellent communication skills, in particular the ability to communicate sensitively in a cross-cultural environment with Aboriginal clients and staff
- Proven broad range of clinical skills and knowledge, with the ability to model high quality clinical care as part of a multidisciplinary team and share this knowledge with a diverse range of people
- Current C class NT Driver Licence and appropriate level of health and fitness to travel to remote community clinics as required.
Want to find out more about this opportunity? Please contact Lauren Lester on 08 8982 10***or ***********@ntphn.org.au
