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SalaryEmployment Type: Permanent Full Time, 38 Hours Per Week
Location: Cabramatta Drug Health Services
Position Classification: Clinical Nurse Specialist Grade 2
Remuneration: $109,945.46- $ 113556.22 Per Annum
Requisition ID: REQ471865
Application Close Date: 17/03/2024
Interview Date Range: 20/03/2024 – 27/03/2024
Contact Details: Kurt Simpson - 0472 802 627 I Kurt.Simpson@health.nsw.gov.au
⚫️🟡🔴This position is advertised under the SWSLHD Aboriginal Targeted Recruitment Program. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are encouraged to apply and, where found suitable, will be given higher priority. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants may have to cite their Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander heritage, in addition to the selection criteria.⚫️🟡🔴
About the Opportunity
The Aboriginal Drug Health Team is a newly established multidisciplinary team in the South West Sydney Local Health District (SWSLHD) Drug Health Service.
The team will utilise a culturally responsive model to work holistically with Aboriginal people and communities to support consumers with drug and alcohol misuse, with a particular focus on ice use.
We are seeking applications from Aboriginal people as well a non-Aboriginal people who have a passion for working in Aboriginal communities.
The Clinical Nurse Specialist Grade 2 will work with multidisciplinary health care providers in acute and primary care settings to support client engagement, care planning, care coordination and treatment related to harm reduction.
The team will include a Senior Aboriginal Health Worker, 2x Aboriginal Health Workers, Social Worker, Clinical Nurse Specialist, 2x Counsellors and Aboriginal Program Coordinator.
As a part of the SWSLHD Aboriginal Drug Health Team, you will be supported by an Aboriginal Program Coordinator and have access to a wide range of cultural supports across the service including cultural supervision, SWSLHD Aboriginal Health Unit and a large workforce of Aboriginal colleagues.
Hours of Work:
Hours of work are Mon –Fri, 8am-4.30pm
What You'll be Doing
The Clinical Nurse Specialist Grade 2 will provide safe, compassionate, culturally responsive, quality, person centred specialist care and work in collaboration with consumers/families/carers and a multidisciplinary team to achieve identified goals and outcomes.
Where You'll Be Working
SWSLHD operates its services on the lands of the Dharawal, Darug and Gundungurra peoples and has a rich history of working alongside local Aboriginal organisations and programs.
The position has an office base in Cabramatta. The team services community across the South West Sydney area and travel across the district will be required.
How to Apply
To be considered for this position, please ensure you address the selection criteria as thoroughly as possible. * This position has been advertised under the SWSLHD Aboriginal Targeted Recruitment Program. This means Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, where found suitable, will be given higher priority. Do you identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander? If so, please tell us about your Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander heritage, including a brief description of your family and community connections.
- Current Authority to Practice as a Registered Nurse with Australian Health Practitioners Regulation Agency (AHPRA) and at least 3 years’ experience in the clinical specialty with relevant post-registration qualification.
- Outline your understanding of the causative factors related to drug and alcohol misuse within Aboriginal communities and how you would ensure clinical practices utilised to address these factors are culturally responsive.
- Describe your experience in drug and alcohol clinical practices including assessment, planning, treatment management, and clinical leadership.
- Current unrestricted Australian drivers licence (P2 Licence Acceptable) subject to obtaining NSW drivers licence within 3 months of appointment.
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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.
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, people with a disability and people from the LGBTQI+ community to apply.
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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