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Employment Type: Temporary Full Time, 38 hours per week up until 30/06/2025
Location: Fairfiled Community Health Centre
Position Classification: Registered Nurse
Remuneration: $1,290.90- $1,812.39 per week
Requisition ID: REQ343499
Application Close Date: 02/10/2022
About You
- Are you a Registered Nurse, with experience in working with vulnerable families with children from birth to 2 years old, who has or is working towards child and family health nursing qualification?
- Do you have good communication skills, good time management and interpersonal skills?
- Do you want to become part of a committed team, always striving to deliver excellence in the health/public sector?
About The Opportunity
The Sustaining NSW Families Program provides an exciting opportunity for a Registered Nurse, with experience in working with vulnerable families with children from birth to 2 years old, who has / working towards child and family health nursing qualification. It’s a nurse led program. You will be working with other Allied Health Professionals to case manage and provide care to families experiencing vulnerabilities in the Liverpool and Fairfield areas from antenatal to the child 2nd birthday.
Life at South Western Sydney Local Health District is rewarding, progressive and diverse and is always focused on achieving our Vision of Leading Care, Healthier Communities.
What You'll Be Doing
Child and Family Health Nurses (CFHN) working in the Sustaining NSW Families (SNF) program are the front-line service providers. The CFHN in SNF practices at an extended level of nursing, working in a primary health care model, undertaking sustained health home visiting (SHHV) with families who are identified as part of the SAFESTART process as having Level 2 vulnerabilities. The SHHV program works with these vulnerable women and their families, from the antenatal period, potentially until the child is 2 years of age. The (CFHN) is responsible for:
- Providing best practice evidence-based care to identified vulnerable families using the Sustaining NSW Families program model,
- Promoting parent-child relationships and optimal child development by working in partnership with parents,
- The case management of families to ensure they have an effective and integrated plan of care and working in partnership with general practitioners, midwives, perinatal mental health, government and non-government organisations and the members of the SNF multidisciplinary team.
South Western Sydney Local Health District (SWSLHD) is focused on achieving our Vision of Leading Care, healthier communities. All staff are expected to act as an appropriate and effective role model, promoting a culture that supports practices that reflect the NSW Health CORE values of Collaboration, Openness, Respect and Empowerment through demonstrated behaviours and interactions with patients, clients and employees. The vision of SWSLHD Nursing and Midwifery Service is Compassionate Nursing and Midwifery Care Always, through leading effective workplace cultures that improve the patient experience.
Where You'll Be Working
At South Western Sydney Local Health District we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, where we don’t just accept differences but we honour and support it. Committed to providing a working environment that thrives and values diversity, we encourage people of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander background and people with a disability to apply.
How to Apply
To be considered for this position, please ensure you address the selection criteria as thoroughly as possible.
- Current Authority to Practice as a Registered Nurse with Australian Health Practitioners Regulation Agency (AHPRA). Child and Family Health nursing qualifications or commitment to undertake and complete in first 12 months. Demonstrated recent experience as a Registered Nurse in an environment appropriate to the Child and Family Health Nursing Speciality.
- Demonstrated ability to provide safe compassionate quality care that is culturally responsive.
- Demonstrated ability to effectively communicate and engage with clients/consumers, carers and the multidisciplinary health care team to identify and ensure responsiveness of care needs.
- Demonstrated capacity to interact with others in a personable and professional manner and personally resolve conflicts when they arise.
- Demonstrated evidence of the use of critical thinking as it relates to the delivery of evidenced based nursing care.
- Demonstrated understanding and participation in risk management, work health and safety and quality improvement in the workplace.
- Demonstrated ability to work independently and collaboratively as part of a multidisciplinary team.
- Current unrestricted Australian drivers licence (P2 Licence Acceptable) subject to obtaining NSW drivers licence within 3 months of appointment.
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For role related queries or questions contact Lien Bui on (02) 9794 1*** or via email on ********@health.nsw.gov.au
Interview Date Range: 05/10/2022 - 12/10/2022
Additional Information
Stepping Up – Close the Gap
Stepping Up aims to assist Aboriginal applicants understand how to apply for roles with NSW Health by clarifying the recruitment and onboarding process. If you are an Aboriginal person and wish to obtain more information about applying for a role within South Western Sydney Local Health District, please contact the SWSLHD Aboriginal Workforce Team on ***************@health.nsw.gov.au
Workplace Giving Program
South Western Sydney Local Health District employees also have the opportunity to make a difference to help those less fortunate. Visit the Workplace Giving Program for more information.
Salary Packaging
South Western Sydney Local Health District employees are able to enjoy the benefits of salary packing. Visit Smart Salary for more details.
Transforming Your Experience
Transforming Your Experience (TYE) is SWSLHDs key strategy to always positively transform your, our patients, our consumers, our staffs and our communities experiences across our organisation and services. Our vision is that our care is always safe, high quality and personalised and all our staff are supported and empowered to achieve their full potential. SWSLHD upholds the CORE Values – Collaboration, Openness, Respect and Empowerment.
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 certifying the worker cannot have any approved COVID-19 vaccines available in NSW.
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