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SalaryEmployment Type: Permanent Full Time 38 hours per week
Location: Campbelltown Hospital
Position Classification: Clinical Nurse Consultant Grade 2
Remuneration: $123,104.9 - $125,557.29 per annum
Requisition ID: REQ361654
Application Close Date: 2/1/2023
About The Opportunity
The Mental Health Team at South Western Sydney Local health District are seeking a passionate, dedicated and outgoing Clinical Nurse Consultant to inspire the next generation of Mental Health Nurses.
If you are an approachable, knowledgeable and friendly individual who is dedicated to ensuring the education of other nurses, this is the role for you. We are looking for someone who thrives on watching others grow and progressing both their learning and career and who has a strong clinical background in mental health. Being a Clinical Nurse Consultant is a great opportunity to provide leadership, and co-ordination of structured learning for mental health clinician whist developing and evaluating the educational needs of staff.
The role requires you to be a great communicator who can easily form strong professional relationships with others and you will be looking to progress your own career. This role works across the entire South Western Sydney Local Health District which provides you with an incredible networking opportunity and avenues to build you leadership skills. You will also be working with a district full of likeminded CNE's, CNC's and NUM's who want to improve the mental health services across the district.
This is a rare chance for an experienced clinician to shape the future of mental health nursing and step into a highly rewarding career by becoming a person of influence in your chosen field.
If you are ready to make a true change to the future of Mental Health - click APPLY NOW or call Laura Page. 0438 886 142 for a confidential discussion.
Life at South Western Sydney Local Health District is rewarding, progressive and diverse and is always focused on achieving our Vision of Leading Care, Healthier Communities.
What you'll be doing
The Clinical Nurse Consultant (CNC) is an expert practitioner who, through leadership facilitates evidence based practice. The CNC will promote a service which fosters clinical excellence, research and professional leadership. The CNC contributes to quality health care by collaborating with the health care providers and consumer groups, developing clinical practice standards and evaluating their outcomes. The CNC is responsible for providing services which facilitate effective management of the care in the given specialty.
South Western Sydney Local Health District (SWSLHD) is focused on achieving our Vision of Leading Care, healthier communities.
All staff are expected to act as an appropriate and effective role model, promoting a culture that supports practices that reflect the NSW Health CORE values of Collaboration, Openness, Respect and Empowerment through demonstrated behaviors and interactions with patients, clients and employees.
The vision of SWSLHD Nursing and Midwifery Service is Compassionate Nursing and Midwifery Care Always, through leading effective workplace cultures that improve the patient experience.
Where You'll Be Working
At South Western Sydney Local Health District we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, where we don’t just accept differences but we honour and support it. Committed to providing a working environment that thrives and values diversity, we encourage people of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander background and people with a disability to apply.
How to Apply
To be considered for this position, please ensure you address the selection criteria as thoroughly as possible.
Current Authority to Practice as a Registered Nurse with the Australian Health Practitioners Regulation Agency (AHPRA)
At least 5 years full time equivalent post registration experience, with at least 3 years full time experience in the specialty field.
Approved post graduate nursing qualifications in a field relevant to the specialty field or such other qualifications or experience deemed appropriate by the organisation. * Demonstrated evidence of strategies used to maintain current knowledge of clinical practice advances and research in the relevant specialty
- Demonstrated ability to apply expert knowledge to provide safe compassionate quality care that is culturally responsive
- Demonstrated ability to effectively communicate and engage with patients/consumers, carers and the multidisciplinary health care team to identify and ensure responsiveness of care needs
- Demonstrated capacity to interact with others in a personable and professional manner and personally resolve conflicts when they arise
- Demonstrated evidence of the use of critical thinking as it relates to the delivery of advanced evidenced based nursing care
- Demonstrated understanding and participation in risk management, work health and safety and quality improvement in the workplace
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For role related queries or questions contact Laura Page on 0438 886 142 or via email Laura.Page@health.nsw.gov.au
Interview Date Range: 4/1/2023 – 11/1/2023
Additional Information
Stepping Up – Close the Gap
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Workplace Giving Program
South Western Sydney Local Health District employees also have the opportunity to make a difference to help those less fortunate. Visit the for more information.
Salary Packaging
South Western Sydney Local Health District employees are able to enjoy the benefits of salary packing. Visit for more details.
Transforming Your Experience
Transforming Your Experience (TYE) is SWSLHDs key strategy to always positively transform your, our patients, our consumers, our staffs and our communities experiences across our organisation and services. Our vision is that our care is always safe, high quality and personalised and all our staff are supported and empowered to achieve their full potential. SWSLHD upholds the CORE Values – Collaboration, Openness, Respect and Empowerment.
To be eligible for permanent appointment to a position in NSW Health, you must have an Australian citizenship or permanent Australian residency.
All NSW Health workers are required to have completed a primary course of a COVID-19 vaccine which has been approved or recognised by the Therapeutics Goods Administration (TGA). New applicants must have completed the vaccination course prior to commencement with NSW Health, or provide an approved medical contraindication certificate certifying the worker cannot have any approved COVID-19 vaccines available in NSW.
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