AddressUse your skills, knowledge, and training for education on a 10-week contract!
About the Role:
- You will provide individualised care and education for people living with type 1, type 2, and gestational diabetes in both outpatient and inpatient settings.
- This important role aims to improve outcomes for people with diabetes and other chronic diseases through the provision of assessment referral and clinical services.
- This role also educates and empowers health professionals, carers, and the general community to better manage diabetes.
- You will be supported clinically by the specialised diabetes team including credentialled Diabetes Educator and nurse practitioner, as well as the range of senior nursing staff of various specialties at community health.
- Operationally, you will be supported by the Armidale Community Health nurse manager who will identify and support educational opportunities as they arise.
Where you'll be working:
- You will join the specialised diabetes service at Armidale Community Health. The local Diabetes Educator covers Armidale, Guyra, Uralla, working closely with local dietetics services and the Tablelands Diabetes Nurse Practitioner.
- Armidale is the main hub of the New England High Country, and is one of Australia’s most elegant regional locations, with its 19th-century churches and heritage architecture.
- A graceful city of tree-lined streets, Armidale is a five-and-a-half hour drive from Sydney and less than 90 minutes from Tamworth, with flights between Sydney and Armidale operating daily.
- Armidale is surrounded by beautiful forests, mountain gorges, national parks, and waterfalls, including Wollomombi Falls, one of the highest waterfalls in Australia.
About you:
- Postgraduate qualifications in diabetes management or evidence of working toward same.
- Demonstrated ability to explain complex diabetes concepts and deliver diabetes education to consumers and other health professionals.
- Computer literacy skills and knowledge of patient information systems (iPM, chime, DMR, CGM programs)
Benefits:
- Sustainable Healthcare: Together towards zero
- 4 weeks annual leave (pro-rata for part-time employees)
- Superannuation contributions
- Salary packaging options
- Fitness Passport
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for staff and family members
- Opportunity to work and collaborate with a range of non-clinical and clinical professionals.
Requirements:
- Current registration as a Registered Nurse with AHPRA
Additional Information:
- An eligibility list will be created for future temporary part-time vacancies.
- To be eligible for employment in this position you must be an Australian Citizen, or permanent resident of Australia, or a New Zealand citizen with a current New Zealand Passport, or hold an appropriate visa that allows you to live and work in Australia. Employment of a temporary visa holder will only be offered in line with the conditions and expiry date of your visa.
- We are unable to accommodate visa sponsorship for applicants requiring a visa for this position.
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This is a Category A position. Recommended applicants will be reviewed for compliance with NSW Health policy directive PD2023_022: Occupational Assessment, Screening and Vaccination against Specific Diseases 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.
