AddressAn exciting opportunity exists for an expert wound practitioner to undertake advanced nursing practice in the community setting and support the educational and professional development of Community Nursing staff.
Employment Type: Temporary Full Time until 02 February 2025 (with possibility of ongoing employment)Position Classification: Nurse PractitionerRemuneration: $2,598.60 - $2,782.40 per weekHours Per Week: 38Requisition ID: REQ491270
Who we are: We are a health service that touches thousands of lives across the Northern Sydney Local Health District, together as a team of like-minded people. We are passionate, driven and have the skills and knowledge to care for our patients whilst creating the best services possible. Our teams have meaningful, interesting and rewarding work everyday. We challenge and nurture each other, sharing our knowledge and experience so that we can deliver better care for everyone There’s a real sense of belonging here because we value and respect our patients, employees, and teams’ voices. You’ll feel a real privilege being a trusted caregiver in our patients, their families, their carers, and our communities’ lives
Where you'll be working
Northern Sydney Home Nursing Service (NSHNS) - Macquarie Hospital North Ryde. Provision of service across NSLHD in home, RACF and clinic based settings
What you'll be doing
The NSLHD Nursing and Midwifery Workforce will be compassionate, competent, confident, contemporary, capable and committed to leading person-centred health care.
A Nurse Practitioner (NP) is a registered nurse educated and authorised to function autonomously and collaboratively in an advanced and extended clinical role. The NP role includes the assessment and management of patients using nursing knowledge and skills and may include but is not limited to initiation of diagnostic investigations, prescribing of medications and direct referral of patients to other health care professionals.
The NP role is grounded in the nursing profession's values, knowledge, theories and practice and provides innovative and flexible health care delivery that complements other health care providers (ANMC 2006). NPs practice collaboratively as an interdependent member of the multidisciplinary health care team and provide autonomous, patient centered care.
NSHNS is a generalist Community Nursing service visiting clients in their own homes and in clinic environments for a range of care including comprehensive assessment, referrals on to other services and specialists depending on client need; medication administration (oral, parenteral, topical etc), Wound Management – acute, simple to complex including compression therapy, NPWT, pressure injury management, conservative sharp wound debridement and vascular profiling etc; palliative care through to EOL care, syringe driver management, respiratory/heart failure monitoring, IDC/SPC changes and support, continence assessments, CVAD care and more.
The Nurse Practitioner role will support the Community Nursing staff and community-based patients (including in RACFs) with Complex Wound Management requirements.
People of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander background encouraged to apply.
Candidates will need to meet the following criteria:
- A registered nurse appointed as such to a position approved by the Secretary NSW Health and who is endorsed by the Board, to practise as a Nurse Practitioner.
- Demonstrated effective communication, both written and verbal; and a demonstrated ability to work both individually and in a team environment.
- Demonstrated clinical competencies and achievement at an advanced level in chronic and Complex Wound nursing practice.
- Current NSW Drivers licence.
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Applications Close: 4 June 2024
