Address- Barossa Hills Fleurieu Local Health Network, Rural Support Service - iCCnet SA, Tonsley Administration Building, Bedford Park
- Salary: RN/M3 $121,537 to $126,970 p.a.
- Temporary Full-time position working up to 27 June 2025
What we are seeking:
A dedicated and experienced Nurse Consultant who’ll provide advanced cardiac nursing and/or midwifery services. Your key mission will be to provide your expert and patient-centred acute cardiac advice and secondary prevention to patients and health professionals across regional and rural South Australia. This includes a cardiac rehab telephone service to people who’ve had a cardiac event, including myocardial infarction (MI), revascularisation procedures, coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), heart valve surgery, arrythmia management etc. You’ll be part of small, passionate team who work alongside each other and collaborate to get the best for their patients, with all your efforts together focused on these important goals:
- Reducing emergency department presentations and hospital admissions for clients with cardiac disease.
- Helping vulnerable groups of people effectively access and use health services.
- Decreasing the length of stay for cardiac patients admitted to South Australia's regional hospitals.
- Improving, in general, regional patients' access to health services.
- Enabling timely transfers from metropolitan health services back to the community.
Essential Qualifications and Experience:
- Current cardiovascular experience.
- In-depth knowledge of the cardiac rehabilitation model of care within South Australia's regional Local Health Networks.
- Registered, or eligible for registration, as a Nurse with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia and who holds, or who is eligible to hold, a current practicing certificate.
Why Join Us?
- Make a significant impact on the health outcomes of patients living in regional and rural South Australia.
- Work within a supportive and forward-thinking health network.
- Be part of a team committed to reducing health disparities and improving service accessibility for rural communities.
The South Australian public sector promotes diversity and flexible ways of working part-time.
Applicants are encouraged to discuss the flexible working arrangements for this role.
In addition to the annual salary package we also offer salary sacrifice benefits, employer superannuation contributions and leave loading.
Appointment will be subject to a satisfactory Criminal History Check and appropriate immunisation requirements.
Check(s)
- DHS Working With Children Check (WWCC)
- National Police Certificate (NPC) for employment involving unsupervised contact with vulnerable groups required for this position (E.g. aged care employment or work involving vulnerable clients)
Immunisation Risk for this position is - Category A (Direct contact with blood or body substances)?
SA Health Services are required to implement the Addressing vaccine preventable disease: Occupational assessment, screening and vaccination policy in the workplace.
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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants are encouraged to apply. Job ref: 871499
Application Closing Date
16 July 2024 - 2 weeks - 11.55PM
Attachments
871499 - Nurse, Midwife Consultant - Cardiovascular.pdf
JCS+RN+Community+final.pdf
About RSS factsheet .pdf
Australian applicant guidelines
International applicant guidelines
