Rural Generalist Nurse Practitioner/Transitional Nurse Practitioner - Nambucca Valley

The NP/TNP will:

• provide holistic care to a broad range of acute and chronic presentations across the lifespan to address patient, resident and community needs.
• receive and make referrals to facilitate integrated care across disciplines or teams and contribute to clinical excellence through research, teaching, consulting and providing leadership to the nursing profession.
• work autonomously and collaboratively in an advanced and extended nursing clinical role, meeting the clinical demand within their defined and agreed scope of practice and formulary, including patients with chronic and complex care.
• provide expertise in chronic and complex health conditions and support the development of best practice emergency / inpatient care plans and coordination of discharge plans for identified high risk patients with chronic and/or complex medical diagnosis that present to Dorrigo MPS.
• provide expertise to the assessment and management of chronic & complex health conditions for the 21 residents of ‘Highview’ (RAC) within a wellbeing, resident directed model of aged care.
• create culturally safe partnerships to address priority population groups within the Dorrigo plateau community including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people living with a disability, people experiencing homelessness or on low incomes, older people and culturally and linguistically diverse groups
• coordinate health care activity and referral to, and liaison with, internal and external community agencies and services relevant to their conditions

All NSW Health workers are required to have completed a primary course (2 doses) of a Therapeutics Goods Administration (TGA) approved or recognised COVID-19 vaccine (except for the Janssen COVID-19 vaccine, which is approved by the TGA as a single dose primary course).  

New applicants must have completed the vaccination course prior to commencement with NSW Health or provide an Australian Immunisation Register (AIR) immunisation history statement certifying the worker cannot have any approved COVID-19 vaccines available in NSW. A NSW Health agency may require further information about the medical contraindication (including but not limited to an Immunisation Medical Exemption form – IM011 form).

Acceptable proof of vaccination is the Australian Immunisation Register (AIR) Immunisation History Statement or AIR COVID-19 Digital Certificate. Booster doses are highly recommended for all health care workers who have completed the primary course of COVID-19 vaccinations.

AN ELIGIBILITY LIST FROM THIS RECRUITMENT ACTIVITY MAY BE CREATED FOR FUTURE VACANCIES

1. Current registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia and current practicing certificate to practice as a Nurse Practitioner or working towards endorsement as a Nurse Practitioner with the ability to complete all requirements within 2 years.
2. Evidence of existing advanced practice skills and the ability to critically evaluate and integrate relevant research findings into decision making about health care management and interventions.
3. Excellent leadership and interpersonal skills with proven ability to use appropriate teaching/learning strategies to educate and support others within the specialty and the profession.
4. Demonstrated ability to articulate sound reasoning behind clinical, diagnostic and prescribing decisions that are informed by evidence-based practice and made within a nursing context.
5. Demonstrated high level of capability in carrying out a range of advanced procedures, treatments and interventions that are evidence based and informed by specialist knowledge.
6. Demonstrated commitment to ongoing professional and educational development of others, with a commitment to own professional development and currency of practice.
7. Current NSW driver's licence and ability and willingness to travel for work purposes.