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• Eyre and Far North Local Health Network, Cleve
• Salary: $87,416 - $110,497 p.a (pro rata) - RN/RM2C
• Temporary Part Time (48 hours per fortnight, 27 January 2025 until 11 April 2025)

Are you passionate about making a difference in rural healthcare? Join our team in Cleve as a Community Nurse and play a vital role in delivering advanced nursing services within a supportive and dynamic community setting.

In this role, you will provide expert nursing care to individuals in the community, ensuring high standards of practice and patient-centred care. With your experience and dedication, you will take ownership of your practice, guiding and mentoring less experienced staff, while contributing to the overall wellbeing of the community.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide advanced clinical nursing services to patients in a variety of community health settings.
• Take accountability for personal practice standards, delegating tasks to others and fostering development.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to deliver the best care outcomes.
• Manage and prioritise your workload effectively to meet care delivery goals.

What We're Looking For:

• Registered Nurse with at least 3 years of post-registration experience 
• Ability to lead, support, and mentor other nursing staff, including students and enrolled nurses.
• Strong communication, problem-solving, and conflict-resolution skills, with the ability to be creative, innovative and flexible when approaching issues within the clinical setting.
• Ability to work independently, prioritising care while meeting deadlines.
• Knowledge of contemporary healthcare issues and quality improvement systems.
• Experience in the use of computer packages e.g., Microsoft Word, Excel

If you are a skilled, motivated nurse ready to contribute to a forward-thinking healthcare service, we want to hear from you!

About Us

With its ancient outback landscapes, boutique vineyards, oyster farms and Australia’s best-kept-secret surf coast, Eyre and Far North will inspire and energise you.

The Eyre and Far North Local Health Network (EFNLHN) is responsible for the planning and delivery of hospital and health services over 337,626 square kilometres, taking in the Eyre Peninsula, western part of South Australia and north to Coober Pedy.  We are one of the largest LHNs by area in Australia and communities include Ceduna, Cleve, Coober Pedy, Cowell, Cummins, Elliston, Kimba, Oodnadatta, Port Lincoln, Streaky Bay, Tumby Bay and Wudinna.

Services include acute care, medical, accident and emergency, surgery, birthing and midwifery, specialist consultancy, renal dialysis, chemotherapy, transfusions, rehabilitation, residential and community aged care, respite care, transitional care packages, Aboriginal health, mental health, allied health, community health, community nursing, palliative care, community home support packages and home modifications.

Click here to learn more about living and working in Eyre and Far North Local Health Network.

Applicant Information

The South Australian public sector promotes diversity and flexible ways of working part-time.  Applicants are encouraged to discuss the flexible working arrangements for this role.

Appointment will be subject to a satisfactory Criminal History Check and appropriate immunisation requirements.

Check(s)

• DHS Working With Children Check (WWCC)
• DHS National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) Worker Check
• National Police Certificate (NPC) for employment involving unsupervised contact with vulnerable groups required for this position (E.g. aged care employment or work involving vulnerable clients)

Immunisation Risk for this position is - Category A (direct contact with blood or body substances)

SA Health Services are required to implement the Addressing vaccine preventable disease: Occupational assessment, screening and vaccination policy in the workplace.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants are encouraged to apply. Job ref: 889453

Enquiries

Cathryn Northcott
Nurse Unit Manager
Phone: 86891006
E-mail: cathryn.northcott@sa.gov.au 

Application Closing Date

Sunday 5 January 2025, 11:55PM

Attachments

889453 Clinical Nurse Community Health - Role Description.pdf

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