Registered Nurse

Remuneration: $35.33 - $49.60 Per hour + 11% Super +
Employment Type: Temporary Part Time until September 2024
Position Classification: Registered Nurse
Hours Per Week: 12
Requisition ID: REQ459197
Closing Date: Sunday 28th January 2024
Registered Nurse
Eastlakes Community Health Service/Bahtabah Country
About us:
Hunter New England Local Health District (HNELHD) is a great place to grow your career. We are a recognised leader in the healthcare industry, providing a range of public health services to the Hunter, New England and Lower Mid North Coast regions. As the largest employer in the region, we encourage collaboration, openness and respect in the workplace to empower our employees to use their knowledge, skills and experience to meet the principle of Excellence. Every patient. Every time.
Eastlakes Community Health Centre provides Community Nursing to clients in the East Lake Macquarie area.
About the job:

• Community and Aged Care Services Greater Newcastle Sector Community Nursing is currently seeking a Registered Nurse
• The position is for 3 days per fortnight, Thursday Friday, and Fridays alternate weeks.
• In this role the Registered Nurse is responsible for the provision of person-centred; evidence-based Nursing Care that promotes positive health outcomes. Assess, plan, implement and evaluate Nursing Care in collaboration with individuals and the Multidisciplinary Healthcare Team. You will work in therapeutic and professional relationships with clients in their own homes. All staff are expected to act as an appropriate and effective role model and promote culture and supporting practices that reflect the NSW Health CORE values of Collaboration, Openness, Respect and Empowerment through demonstrated behaviors and interactions with patients, clients and employees.
• An initial orientation period will be provided with support from mentors, Nurse Practitioners and Clinical Nurse Specialists. Ongoing professional development will be offered face-to-face and online.

Benefits:

• Superannuation contributions 11%.
• Up to 12 allocated days off each year (for full-time employees).
• Four (4) weeks annual leave for temporary and permanent employees (pro-rata if part time).

- Up to $9k for living expenses + $2.6k meal & entertainment + Novated leasing. * Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for staff and family members.

• Opportunity to work and collaborate with a range of non-clinical and clinical professionals.
• Working for a highly regarded public health facility, where supporting the local community is at the forefront of our business strategy.
• Career Development opportunity.

Requirements:
Our successful candidate will possess the following:

• Current registration as a Registered Nurse with AHPRA.
• Recency of practice as a Registered Nurse in a Community Health setting would be highly regarded.
• Strong organisational and communication skills, with a strong clinical background with experience in, but not limited to, wound assessment and management, urinary catheterisation including Supra Pubic catheter care, Central Venous access and maintenance.

Services provided include:

• Wound assessment and clinical management
• Generalist management of PICC Lines, Portacaths and Clexane.
• Short term Diabetic follow-up post-change in medication regime.
• Specific therapeutic medication management.
• Palliative Care support in conjunction with other Palliative Care service providers.
• General Nursing assessments and subsequent referral to other service providers.
• Continence assessment and Clinical Management.
• Urinary Catheter Care and Clinical Management.

Additional information:

• An eligibility list will be created for future temporary part time vacancies.
• We are unable to accommodate visa sponsorship for applicants requiring a visa for this position.

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For role related queries or questions contact Ian Craig on Ian.Craig1@health.nsw.gov.au
Information for Applicants:
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This is a Category A position. Recommended applicants will be reviewed for compliance with NSW Health policy directive for Category A positions prior to offer. All new employees must agree to comply with the requirements outlined in the policy.
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 (AIR Immunisation History Statement) certifying the worker cannot have any approved COVID-19 vaccines available in NSW.
Acceptable proof of COVID-19 vaccination is the Australian Immunisation Register (AIR) Immunisation History Statement (IHS), or AIR COVID-19 Digital Certificate, or AIR COVID-19 and Influenza IHS. Booster doses are highly recommended for all health care workers who have completed the primary course of COVID-19 vaccinations.
Salary Packaging: is beneficial to most HNELHD employees and may increase your take-home pay! Salary package a range of personal expenses including novated motor vehicle leases, relocation expenses, and HECS/HELP debt. Find out more by contacting via or 1300 40 25 23.
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