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Form of workJob reference: 861559
Location: 5006 - NORTH ADELAIDE
Job status: Ongoing
Eligibility: Open to Everyone
- Women's and Children's Health Network, Paediatric Palliative Care, Division of Allied Health, Complex, Sub Acute and Spiritual Care, North Adelaide
- Salary Classification - RN/M5.1 - Registered Nursing/Midwifery LV 5.1 - $139,868 pro rata
- Employment Part time (0.6 FTE or 22.8 hrs per week) - Ongoing Permanent
About Us
The Women's & Children's Health Network provides state of the art health care for women, babies, children and young people across South Australia. We are the state's leading provider of specialist care for children with acute and chronic conditions as well as being South Australia's largest maternity and obstetric service, and statewide Maternal Fetal Medicine service.
Our community-based services also reach hundreds of thousands of babies, children and young people, their families and communities across South Australia through our various services and programs in areas such as our Mental Health, Child & Family Health services, Youth Health and Aboriginal Health services.
The Paediatric Palliative Care Service (PPCS) provides support to families caring for a child with a life-limiting illness. This is tailored to each family's individual needs to help make decisions about care. The Paediatric Palliative Care Service is uniquely responsible for the provision of care across the whole state of South Australia and into Northern Territory, Broken Hill and Mildura.
The PPCS is a statewide service providing specialist care for children with life-limiting conditions. Our mission is to provide excellent service to children and families facing life-limiting illness through partnership with families, interdisciplinary teamwork, and offering holistic care.
The service is a multidisciplinary team of health care specialists including:
- Doctors
- Nurses
- Grief and Loss Coordinator
- Social Workers
- Art Therapists
Join our team and contribute to providing South Australia's women, babies, children and young people with the best health care through both within our hospital or via our many and varied community services and programs.
The Opportunity
An exciting ongoing opportunity exists within the Paediatric Palliative Care Service team to join as a Nursing Service Director (RN 5.1) working in a part-time capacity.
In this role, you will:
- Use your clinical knowledge and expertise to provide strategic and operational leadership, clinical governance, HR / administrative management and implementation of strategic development.
- Coordinate and support innovation in care, research and safety and quality improvement within the service, WCHN and at state and national level. This includes actively participating in internal and external advisory groups, expert panels, working groups and committees.
- Provide professional and operational nursing advice and leadership to the Paediatric Palliative CareNursing Service and across the health network, community Nursing Services and interdisciplinary teams to those caring for children with life limiting illness.
- Oversee the nursing staff, coordinate patient care and ensure the delivery of specialised holistic individualised care for children living with life limiting conditions across the state of South Australia and the Northern Territory. This includes the development of protocols, management of resources, collaboration with other healthcare professionals / health services across the health network and provide leadership in maintaining high quality, holistic care for the client and family.
- Provides direct leadership to clinical staff, providing high level clinical assessment and advice, clinical service planning, evaluating practice culture to align with the CREATE values, clinical research, practice development, education and training and clinical practice responsibilities.
To find out the specifics, including the key selection criteria and special conditions, please go to the attached role description.
Benefits of Joining us
Not only will you be able to use your skills and abilities in a both a challenging and rewarding role contributing to some of South Australia's most vulnerable women, babies, children and young people, you will also receive and attractive annual salary package with employer superannuation contributions and leave loading as well as the opportunity to maximise your salary through salary sacrifice arrangements.
Application Instructions
You will be required to attach a 1-2 page cover letter addressing the key selection criteria of the role and a current resume/curriculum vitae prior to clicking 'Submit Application'. It is recommended to allow enough time to complete the whole application as the system times out after one hour of inactivity.
Overview
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.
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. work involving vulnerable clients)
Immunisation Risk for this position is - Category A
SA Health Services are required to implement the Addressing vaccine preventable disease: Occupational assessment, screening and vaccination policy in the workplace.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants are encouraged to apply. Job ref: 861559
Enquiries
Mary Cossich - Medical Unit Head Paediatric Palliative Care
Phone: (08) 8161 7***
E-mail: ************@sa.gov.au
Application Closing Date
Thursday 4th April 2024 - 11.55PM
Attachments
RN 5.1 Nursing Service Director Role Description 861559.pdf
WCHN Competency Framework.pdf
Australian applicant guidelines
International applicant guidelines
Flexibility Statement
The South Australian public sector promotes diversity and flexible ways of working including part-time. Applicants are encouraged to discuss the flexible working arrangements for this role.
