AddressClinical Support Nurse- En Trainee portfolio (QRED 1)
Fixed term .5eft until 31/12/2025
About the role
An opportunity exists within the Education Unit (Nursing and Midwifery) EN traineeship portfolio at 0.5eft (40 hours per fortnight) as Clinical Support Nurse. This is open to Registered Nurses with an interest in Clinical Supervision and Support, have experience working in all clinical areas (mainly Care Communities) and must have a current Certificate IV Training and Assessment.
The successful candidate’s main responsibility is to provide direct clinical supervision and support for the EN trainee’s in our care communities and subacute. Working with the traineeship team, you will be responsible for providing direct Clinical Support and instruction to participants, mentoring, involvement with onboarding and orientation, providing ongoing education to staff about the EN trainee scope and role, assisting with assessment marking (as part of the Diploma of Nursing partnering with Fed Uni) and assisting with practical simulation/ assessments. You may also be required to teach unit/s within the Diploma of Nursing, following policies and procedures of Federation University.
The successful applicant will need highly developed communication skills and extensive experience within the highlighted areas. This role also has a focus on supporting clinical staff to adhere to safety features of PPE, HH, and safe manual handling.
Key Responsibilities
- Work clinically alongside Trainees for majority of the shift time to support them within the clinical area
- Provide feedback and evaluation on their performance;
- Participate in completion of marking assessments as per Federation University timeframes
- Support practical simulations and practical assessments tasks
- Monitor trainees’ attendance and readiness for designated client care experiences;
- Escalate to CNE- Traineeship and Early Career Lead in regards to any Trainee performance issues
- Demonstrate an empathy and understanding of all Trainees/consumers and communicate with Trainees/consumers in an effective appropriate manner.
- As times may be required to teach units within the Diploma of Nursing as discussed with Early Career Lead.
Skills and Experience
- A tertiary qualification in nursing practice and registered with the Australian Health Practitioner Agency as a Registered Nurse
- Must hold a current Cert IV in TAE
- Understanding of the training package for Diploma of Nursing, experience in Vocational Education ideal but not essential.
- An understanding of education frameworks including Best Practice Clinical Learning Environment
- Experience working within the healthcare setting, well-developed understanding of all clinical areas.
- Well development IT skills, written and verbal skills
Personal Qualities
- Teamwork: cooperates and works well with others; collaborates and shares information, shows consideration, concern and respect for others feelings and ideas, accommodates and works well with the different working styles of others, encourages resolution of conflict.
- Relationship building: establishes and maintains relationships with people at all levels; promotes harmony and consensus through diplomatic handling of disagreements; forges useful partnerships with people across functions and organisations; builds trust through consistent actions, values and communication
- Conceptual and analytical ability: deals with concepts and complexity comfortably; uses analytical and conceptual skills to reason through problems; has creative ideas and can project how these can link to innovations.
- Creativity and innovation: generate new ideas; draws on a range of information sources to identify new ways of doing things; actively influences events and promotes ideas; translates creative ideas into workplace improvements; reflects on experience and is open to new ways to improve practice.
- Detail focus: observes fine details; identifies gaps in information; looks for logical sequences of information; highlights practical considerations of plans and activities.
- Initiative and accountability: proactive and self-starting; seizes opportunities and acts upon them; takes responsibility for own actions.
Culture & Benefits
At Grampians Health, we recognise our staff are our greatest asset. We are committed to providing a safe and healthy environment for our staff, patients, residents, visitors, volunteers and contractors at all sites.
- Flexible work arrangements
- Salary packaging for living expenses such as rent/mortgage plus meals, entertainment & holidays
- Discounted on-site parking
- Access to discounted health club membership
- Staff rewards and recognition programs
How to apply
Click APPLY or contact Teagan Green, Nursing & Midwifery Education Unit, Early Career Lead on ************@gh.org.au
All appointments are subject to a satisfactory police records check, immunisation clearance and Working with Children check and/or NDIS Worker Screening Check.
All employees must be willing and able to wear Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) when required, which at a minimum is a surgical mask. Additional PPE requirements are role-dependent.
Grampians Health is a child safe organisation, committed to the safety and wellbeing of all children and young people.
Grampians Health is committed to providing a diverse and inclusive workforce. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disability, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, mature age workers and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (or questioning), intersex and asexual LGBTQIA+.
