Registered Nurse Specialist Palliative Care - Grafton & Lismore

Employment Type: Permanent Part Time
Position Classification: Registered Nurse
Remuneration: $35.53 - $49.60 per hour
Hours Per Week: Grafton - 24 / Lismore - 28
Requisition ID: REQ457551
Northern NSW Local Health District are looking for Palliative CareRegistered Nurses to work with members of the Palliative Care nursing team (including CNCs and CNS’) across the inpatient and community settings in Grafton and Lismore. The aim of the Palliative Care Nursing service is to facilitate a coordinated, high quality Palliative Care service to the local community, with a case coordination model that involves generalist community nurses in providing direct clinical care.The service supports GPs, Community Nurses and the Residential Aged Care In-Reach Team in the assessment, care and management of patients with life limiting illnesses and takes a multidisciplinary approach to care with the end goal of improving quality of life for those patients and their carers.
If you have/are:

• Current registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia as a Registered Nurse (Division 1) and experience in working with patients requiring supportive and end of life care.
• Recent knowledge and clinical experience in working with patients requiring supportive palliative and end of life care including experience working in inpatient and community care settings
• Ability to use problem solving skills and a multidisciplinary team approach in the planning, delivery and coordination of patient care
• Effective communication through the use of information technology, written, verbal and interpersonal skills with the ability to identify key messages, issues and concerns when communicating with others

We can offer you:

• Flexible and supportive work environment
• Diverse career pathways
• Professional and personal development
• Opportunities to start or build a career, or re-enter the workforce
• Challenging, inspiring and rewarding roles, and
• The opportunity to make a difference!

Northern NSW Local Health District embraces the diverse skills and perspectives that our people bring to the workplace. We foster inclusiveness and diversity to help us deliver quality care to our community.
NNSWLHD is committed to reconciliation and strongly encourages Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander people to apply for this position. All applications from Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander people will be viewed most favourably. For help with your application to this role visit Stepping Up, our online recruitment resource for Aboriginal people.
To apply for this position, you must be an Australian citizen or permanent resident, or be able to independently, legally live and work in Australia. For more information please see www.border.gov.au
You may be subject to a probationary period of six months from the date of appointment to this position.
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For role related queries or questions contact Laura Mattocks on Laura.Mattocks@health.nsw.gov.au
Applications Close: 1 February 2024
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