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Form of workTownsville Hospital and Health Service is the public healthcare provider for more than 250,000 people across a geographic area of 150,000km2, delivering a comprehensive range of services across 21 facilities, from primary care in regional locations to highly specialised care at the main hospital.
The Communicable Disease Control (CDC) Team in Townsville Public Health Unit (TPHU) is focused on surveillance, prevention and control of important infectious diseases and outbreaks, and ensuring children and adults are vaccinated.
As with all Townsville Public Health Unit staff, the position will be required to perform other appropriate duties as required, such as supporting vaccine service providers and CDC responses to outbreaks and disasters.
The Townsville Hospital and Health Service vision is world-class healthcare for northern Queensland. Our purpose is `great care every day'.
The Opportunity
This position provides an opportunity to learn all aspects of CDC including vaccination support services. Within that, the role supports the Indigenous Immunisation Outreach Service (‘Boots on the Ground') which finds and updates immunisation of disadvantaged Indigenous children. These have fallen behind or are unvaccinated due to complex family dysfunction. The objective is to link such children and families back into primary care and provide outstanding doses in the field when necessary. The outreach nurse normally works with an Indigenous health worker to trace and locate overdue children near Townsville.
There are plans to expand the ‘Boots' model to include other community outreach and promotion, such as management of skin infections and prevention of complications such as rheumatic heart disease.
Role requirements
- Mandatory: Bachelor of Nursing or equivalent is a mandatory qualification for this position.
- Mandatory: Authorisation as an Immunisation Program Nurse to practice under the provisions of the Health (Drugs and Poisons) Regulation 1996.
- Highly Desirable: Postgraduate qualifications relevant to the position or working towards a relevant qualification.
- Adult Life Support Certificate: Must be able to obtain and then maintain an annual competency in Advanced Life Support as per Townsville Hospital and Health Service policy Life Support Training and Assessment -THSDCLI040151v6 (http://qheps.health.qld.gov.au/tville/policies/thsdcli/thsdcli040151.pdf (PDF) ( http://qheps.health.qld.gov.au/tville/policies/thsdcli/thsdcli040151.pdf ))
- On call: Appointees may be required to participate in an on-call roster.
- Drivers Licence: This position requires the incumbent to operate a class C motor vehicle and an appropriate license endorsement to operate this vehicle is required. Proof of this endorsement must be provided prior to the commencement of duty.
- The applicant ideally will have a working knowledge of a range of software packages used in the clinical and management environment, including the Microsoft Windows, Excel, Access, Matrix and Power Point.
- Travel: Please note, from time-to-time this position will be required to travel to, and work at, other facilities located within the Rural Hospitals Service Group network to participate in meetings for planning, quality, performance, training and education, or clinical activities. This may involve day and/or overnight stays. Travel on small planes or ferry may be required. The successful applicant/s will need to be able to commit to this requirement.
For additional information regarding the responsibilities and/or other requirements for this position please refer to the role description.
Generous remuneration package value up to $128,435 p.a.comprising:
- Salary rates between $4017.60 - $4302.00 p.f. (NG6-1)
- Annual leave loading + leave
- 12.75% employer superannuation contribution
- Other employment benefits may include: salary sacrificing options ( https://www.health.qld.gov.au/employment/conditions/salary/sacrifice ), uniform allowance, locality allowances, employee wellness and assistance programs and access to corporate discounts
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