AddressClosing Date: Sunday 10th March 2024
About us:
There aren’t many places In The world where you hear the words ‘I love where I live’ spoken daily. But you do in Taree, Forster, Tuncurry, and the surrounding Barrington Coast.
We have the perfect lifestyle.
- Beautiful Rivers, pristine beaches, lush green mountains, a thriving community full of various cultures, lower housing prices, and higher living standards.
- The business community thrives with a new university precinct and fantastic career opportunities.
- We are just three hours drive north of Sydney, two hours north of Newcastle and one hour south of Port Macquarie.
About the job:
If you are seeking a challenging and rewarding Registered Nurse position that supports patients to avoid hospital admissions or provides treatment In The patient’s home to support early discharge from Hospital, then this is the job for you.
The successful applicant for this position will be located at Taree Community Health, working with the Hospital In The Home (HITH) team. This position works within a multi-disciplinary team including Community Nursing, Palliative Care, Cardiac & Respiratory Rehabilitation, Continence, Dietetics, Diabetes, Wound Management and Audiometry. You will be working within a small team that works a combination of twelve-hour or eight-hour day shifts over a seven-day period.
In this role you will be supported by various experienced professionals including the Nurse Unit Manager and for speciality tasks you will be further supported by the Wound Management Specialist and Clinical Nurse Educator. Education and training opportunities will be supported if they are appropriate to the core business of the HITH role.
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Benefits:
- Superannuation contributions 11%.
- Four (4) weeks annual leave for temporary and permanent employees (pro-rata if part time) and Six (6) weeks annual leave for eligible full-time nurses.
- Salary packaging - Up to $9k for living expenses + $2.6k meal & entertainment + Novated leasing.
- 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.
- Working for a highly regarded public health facility, where supporting the local community is at the forefront of our business strategy.
- Career Development opportunity.
About you:
We are searching for a highly skilled and experienced Registered Nurse with excellent communication and interpersonal skills, who applies evidence based practice and critical thinking, with the ability to implement individualised person centred care. You will need to have good organisational, time management, and task prioritising skills, be caring and motivated with a positive teamwork ethic.
- Current registration as a Registered Nurse with AHPRA.
- Accredited with IV cannulation skills, PICC line & Porta-Cath maintenance.
- Attend annual Clinical Competencies in Aseptic Technique, Porta-Cath access, Intravenous Cannulation, PICC line maintenance.
Additional information:
- An eligibility list will be created for future permanent full or part time and temporary full or part time vacancies.
- We are unable to accommodate visa sponsorship for applicants requiring a visa for this position.
For role related queries or questions contact Elle Maytom at ***********@health.nsw.gov.au
Information for Applicants:
Applicants will be assessed against the essential requirements and selection criteria contained withIn The position description (link below). For assistance addressing selection criteria visit: https://bit.ly/3vL5fq2
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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.
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 SalaryPackagingPLUS! via *********@salarypackagingplus.com.au or 1300 40 25 23.
HNE Health employees may be eligible for a range of benefits such as allocated days off (ADO) for full time employees, long service leave, paid maternity leave, and salary packaging options including meal expenses.
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