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SalaryEmployment Type: Permanent Part Time, 12 hours per week
Location: Fairfield Hospital
Position Classification: Enrolled Nurse
Remuneration: $31.83 - $34.59 per hour
Requisition ID: REQ469081
Application Close Date: 03/03/2024
Interview Date Range: 06/03/2024 - 13/03/2024
Contact Details: Winona Raynard - (02) 9616 8829 | winona.ranyard@health.nsw.gov.au
About The Opportunity
Fairfield Hospital Chronic and Complex Care Service is recruiting for an enthusiastic Enrolled Nurse to join the team. This role covers the Day Surgery Unit as well as Outpatient area within the responsibility of the NUM. This a progressive team committed to providing quality care for patients in inpatient and outpatients services. Ambulatory Care covers the outpatients service as well as the pre-operative and day only service.
The Successful candidates will have an opportunity to develop a vast range of clinical and assessment skills that will assist them in furthering their careers. They will gain leadership experience and learn to work autonomously whilst accessing structured support when required. Fairfield Hospital are recruiting an Enrolled Nurse to complement and enrich the current team.
The South Western Sydney Hand Centre (“Fairfield Hand Clinic”) provides specialised hand surgery and hand therapy service within the South Western Sydney Local Health District (SWSLHD) for management of all hands, wrist and forearm disorders/injuries.
The clinic consists of a multidisciplinary team which includes Hand Surgical Consultants, Plastic Surgical Registrars, Nurses with wound care expertise, Hand Therapist within a dedicated treatment room and Administration Support Staff. This clinic predominantly manages acute conditions such as Fractures and soft tissue injuries of the hand and wrist, wounds to the hand and upper limb Infections and tumours (excluding benign cysts, ganglions, lipoma etc.)
The nurses at the South Western Sydney Hand Centre have specialised skills in treating simple to complex hand injuries. Nurses work within the multidisciplinary team with hand surgeons, hand therapist, and liaise closely with community nurses to facilitate rehabilitation after an injury or surgery. Patients are referred for management of their hand injuries and wounds directly through the South Western Sydney Hand Centre after their review with a hand surgeon. Ailing to the CORE Values incorporating Transforming Your Experience.
What you'll be doing
The Enrolled Nurse works with the registered nurse or midwife as part of the health care team and demonstrates competence in the provision of safe, compassionate, quality person-centered care.
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 behaviours 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.
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 an Enrolled Nurse (Division 2), General with the Australian Health Practitioners Regulation Agency (AHPRA).
- Demonstrated recent experience as an Enrolled Nurse in an environment appropriate to the relevant speciality
- Demonstrated ability 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 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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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.
SWSLHD is committed to driving a child safe culture that upholds children and young people’s rights. We strive to ensure children and young people feel safe, supported and included in their care. Existing staff of SWSLHD and those seeking employment are required to take the safety, welfare and wellbeing of children and young people seriously while taking action to keep them safe from harm and abuse.
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