- Nursing Care: Assess, plan, implement and evaluate health care in collaboration with individuals/groups, families and communities.
- Teamwork: Interact effectively with clients' families and other professionals to facilitate the provision of optimum child-centred health care.
- Excellence in Practice: Active involvement in maintaining and continually improving the quality of patient/client care. This may include participation in research and evidence-based practice.
- Learning Culture: Identify and meet client goals in partnership with clients and their families/significant others.
The team:
- The Child Health and Parenting Service is the key provider of Primary Healthcare services to Tasmanian Families with children under 5.
- CHaPS is a nurse-led, multidisciplinary team, partnering with families to improve childhood outcomes and enhance parenting confidence and capacity.
- CHaPS provides dedicated professional development sessions, clinical supervision, ongoing opportunities for mentoring and routine 1:1 contact with line managers to support staff development and wellbeing.
Multiple Fixed term, full time and part time, day worker positions working up to 76 hours per fortnight, commencing as soon as possible until 30 June 2025
*notwithstanding hours may be negotiated with the successful applicant
- Applicants should note that, for a period of twelve months from the date of publication, this selection process may be used to fill subsequent or similar full time and part time vacancies.
Salary: $75,902 to $102,908 per annum. Our Employer 11% superannuation contribution is on top of this amount.
- Access to the Grade 4 salary range $96,558 - $102,908 is subject to successful application for progression to Grade 4
- Salary range is in accordance with Nurses and Midwives (Tasmanian State Service) Agreement 2023
Successful applicants will be required to meet the essential criteria:
- Registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia as a Registered Nurse
- Current Working with Children Registration
- Current Driver's Licence
- Holds a recognised Child and Family Health nursing qualification, or is working towards same
- crimes of violence
- sex related offences
- serious drug offences
- crimes involving dishonesty
- serious traffic offences
- Identification check
- Disciplinary action in previous employment check.
Apply Online. Please click the "Apply" button on this screen. This ensures important questions about you are answered.
You will be prompted to complete a 1-2 page application outlining your experience, skills and knowledge as they relate to the attached Statement of Duties.
Please note:
- We do not require a separate statement addressing the selection criteria.
- All attachments must be in Microsoft Word or PDF format.
- Referee details are submitted as part of the online application so make sure you have the contact details of two referees before applying.
We encourage you to review the Applicant Guide, Statement of Duties, prior to applying for an overview of the duties, program, selection process and selection criteria.
Statement of Duties
Applicant Guide
For more information
Liz Jayatunge
Nurse Unit Manager, CHaPS
Phone: 0417 533 627
E-mail:
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