Clinical Nurse Lactation Consultant

Your opportunity
The Clinical Nurse Lactation Consultant provides expert clinical lactation skills and practice across pregnancy and throughout the continuum of lactation through the application contemporary practice, education and leadership to support optimal maternal and infant health outcomes.
In collaboration with the Midwife Unit Manager and the Clinical Midwifery Consultant you will be required contribute will contribute to strategies that facilitate high standards of professional midwifery practice and assure clinical safety and quality of care in alignment care standards prescribed within the National Safety and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) Standards and the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA) Midwife Standards for Practice.
About the Team
Mackay Base Hospital Women's Services operates within a Maternity Co-Design philosophy that involves working in partnership with maternity consumers, our community and staff from all of our facilities to develop a contemporary women centred model of maternity care.
Our Women's Services operates within a Maternity Co-Design philosophy, that involves working with the community and our staff to develop a contemporary women centred model of maternity care.

The Women's Services offers the following:

• Comprehensive antenatal, birthing and post birth care,
• Birth Centre model of care,
• Midwifery Group Practice,
• Neonatal services and
• Specialist Gynaecology services.

Mackay Hospital and Health Service has six hospitals, two multi-purpose health services and four community health centres that employ more than 3,300 staff. The district covers an area of approximately 90,000km2 and provides services to patients and their families in Bowen, Cannonvale, Clermont, Collinsville, Dysart, Glenden, Mackay, Middlemount, Moranbah, Proserpine and Sarina.
Benefits of working for Mackay HHS

• Remuneration - Competitive packages with salary packaging options available.
• Superannuation - Up to 12.75% employer contribution.
• Annual leave loading - 17.5%.
• Employee assistance and peer support programs - Supporting our staff through difficult times.
• Wellbeing programs - Variety of initiatives available to suit all interests and lifestyles.

How to apply
For full details of this role and how to apply, please refer to the attached Role Description.
Mandatory vaccination requirements

• Vaccinated against, and remain vaccinated against, vaccine preventable diseases Measles, Mumps, Rubella (MMR), Varicella (Chicken Pox), Pertussis (Whooping Cough), Hepatitis B.
• Vaccinated against COVID-19.

For more information on your vaccination requirements should you be the successful applicant for this role, please refer to the Queensland Health employment directives.This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License.

Employee assistance program