Clinical Nurse Educator

A bit about our exciting opportunity at NoosaCare:

NoosaCare is seeking an enthusiastic Clinical Nurse Educator for a newly created role, supporting our clinical and care teams in having their education needs met. You will be working in the beautiful Sunshine Coast and can achieve an amazing work life balance that will ensure you get to experience all the Sunshine Coast has to offer!

NoosaCare provides the highest quality care and support to our residents in a family like community setting. As a boutique, not for profit aged care facility, you will experience a true sense of purpose when working with us. The tranquil surrounds and magnificent gardens will have you feeling as though you are working at a tropical resort, while knowing you are marking a real difference to the lives of our residents and their families. 

Working at NoosaCare has plenty of other benefits too, some of what we can provide includes;

• We can offer discounted, shared, short term accommodations options. We have properties located a short walking distance to our Carramar site and a short drive to our Kabara site, solely for the use of our staff. These properties are fully furnished, you will have lockable access to your room and most of the properties have swimming pools as well!  
• Salary packaging options that can see you packaging up to $15,900 per annum plus $2,600 on meals and entertainment, increasing your take home pay. 
• 5 weeks annual leave & paid parental leave.
• Well laid out, purpose-built facility with modern equipment and technology, including dedicated training spaces.
• The luxury of planning your time around fixed shifts.
• Ongoing training and professional development opportunities.
• Full orientation and induction processes.

Our Community:

• “Our Mission, Vision and Principles create the platform upon which our organisational attitudes, behaviours and work practices will be strengthened, enacted, and monitored.
• Aged care is so important to us and our community that we strive to be the best Aged Care facility on the Sunshine Coast. We aspire to be a community where residents can live with dignity, respect and choice.
• NoosaCare is located across two incredible facilities – Carramar in Tewantin and Kabara in Cooroy.  As a community-based, not-for-profit organisation who put our residents and their families at the forefront of all we do.  Our state-of-the-art facility art located in stunning natural surroundings and landscaped gardens, where residents experience the highest level of care lifestyle choices they deserve.

NoosaCare Principles: 

• Residents, their partners and families are our primary focus.
• Our staff are our most valuable asset.
• We strive to be the best at all that we do.
• We work with compassion, care and open minds.
• We remember our origins and our part in our community.

As a Clinical Nurse Educator at NoosaCare you will:

• Effectively identify, plan, manage and monitor Noosacare learning and development activities. 
• Ensure that relevant and required qualifications, learning and competency records are updated, maintained, and reported accurately. 
• Develop and implement a plan, in consultation with the Management Team, to address the staff education requirements to ensure all staff have appropriate knowledge and skills to perform their roles effectively using skill’s analysis, performance appraisals and staff feedback data. 
• Prepare reports on attendance and non-attendance and follow up actions with individual employees who are not compliant. 
• Provide clinical support and ongoing education of care staff including competency assessments and medication administration. 
• Provide individual mentoring for employees where skills gaps are identified. 
• Deliver toolbox talks across a range of related subjects to ensure employees’ knowledge and practice meet NoosaCare policies and procedures. 
• Lead group training classes and share your skills and expertise. 
• Conduct new staff orientation education clinical component of Noosacare. 
• Review and maintain the Orientation program in consultation with the Management. 
• Ensure all staff have completed the Orientation program and competencies promptly. 
• Oversee the day-to-day operations and administrative matters relating to education and development. 
• Assist with Quality Compliance to exceed performance. 
• Maintain confidentiality in all aspects of the position. 
• Be part of a positive, friendly, and supportive team. 
• The position may involve travel to various facilities within NoosaCare Tewantin and Cooroy sites.

Essential Skills / Qualifications: 

Essential: 

• Registered as Nurse, Enrolled Nurse, or Endorsed Enrolled Nurse. 
• Current AHPRA registration. 
• Current Criminal Background Check. 
• Reside and hold full working rights in Australia. 
• Certificate IV is Training and Assessment or willingness to obtain.  

Desirable:  

• Experience in residential aged care. 
• AN-ACC knowledge or willingness to obtain skills. 

Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted to attend an interview.

Please email your Cover Letter and Resume to:

People Learning & Culture at **@noosacare.com.au 

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This position does not have a closing date. We review applications daily and will close the vacancy when we have identified suitable candidates.