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• Women's and Children's Health Network, Child and Family Health Service (CaFHS), Angle Park SA
• Classification - RN/M3 - Registered Nurse/Midwife LV 3 - $125,183 to $130,779 p.a. (effective 01/01/2025) (pro rata)
• Employment Full time - Term Contract (Backfill) until 28 February 2025.

Start the new Year with a new opportunity.

Join a dedicated team of professionals to provide clinical nursing expertise to support children and families of children in care.

About the role:

As a Nurse Consultant working with our Inner Northern Adelaide team, you will be providing training, mentoring, resource coordination and provision, and evaluation of programs.

You will be:

• Providing clinical leadership to staff;
• Coordinating and leading projects and/or programs that contribute clinical expertise to improve client/service outcomes;
  Working collaboratively with members of the CaFHS inter-professional team in coordinating the processes relating to the referral into the service as well as achieving and evaluating the core areas of focus.
• Integrating contemporary information and evidence with personal experience to support the decision making, innovative thinking and objective analysis that is expected at this level
• Ensuring mechanisms are in place to support ongoing education where work and learning are integrated.

About you:

To succeed in this position, you will be able to demonstrate your:

• Effective leadership skills including highly developed skills in communication, problem solving, conflict resolution and negotiation skills.
• Self-motivation and ability to accept responsibility and co-ordinate own activities while exercising judgement, initiative and meet deadlines
• Ability to foster a workplace environment that develops staff potential.
• Ability for flexibility, innovation and creativity with in the whole of service setting.
• Demonstrated ability in the leadership and facilitation of change management.
• Commitment to timely and quality service delivery the identification of improvement opportunities through quality management processes.

Your experience will include:

• Registered Nurse or Registered Nurse and Midwife with at least 3 years post registration experience.
• Supervision of students, enrolled nurses and less experienced registered nurses.
• Competence in the relevant area of nursing and or midwifery practice in accordance with the relevant standards.
• Ability to motivate and inspire others to work together as team to achieve objectives.
• Providing assessment and care to families and children with complex issues including domestic violence, mental health, substance abuse, child abuse, and co-morbidities.
• Ability to take a leadership role in coordinating and supporting inter-professional staff with a commitment to promoting organisational values and behaviours, positive change management processes, team work and inclusiveness.
• Knowledge and understanding of relevant legislation, industrial agreements, standards, codes, ethics and competency standards
• Knowledge of Australian National Safety and Quality and Safety Health Service Standards
• An understanding of the impacts of mental health, substance abuse and domestic violence on infants, Children and families
• Knowledge on the effects of trauma on young infants, children and families and evidence based interventions
• Extensive knowledge of the impact of the social determinants of health outcomes of infants, children and families.
• Knowledge of parenting, family relationships and child behaviour and development, in particular attachment theory and trauma informed care approaches
• Demonstrated knowledge of the concepts and practices relating to risk assessment, risk management, care planning and intervention with infants, children and families.

Additional relevant tertiary qualifications in nursing or human services related discipline including Child and Family Health Nursing will be highly regarded.

Why Join us?

• We offer access to salary packaging with a range of benefits - including packaging living expenses such as mortgage, rent, utility bills and groceries out of your pre-tax salary up to $9,010 each Fringe Benefit Tax (FBT) year, in addition to a further $2,650 for Meal Entertainment expenses each FBT year.
• Keen to stay physically fit? Get Access to Fitness Passport a workplace health and fitness program that gives you and your family access to a wide choice of gyms and pools across South Australia.
• Access to further professional development opportunities.
• Join a community of like minded professionals committed to supporting optimal child health, development and wellbeing and support to carers.

CaFHS is a critical part of South Australia’s child development system with a mandate to improve health, development and wellbeing outcomes for children from birth to five years of age, and to respond to the 20,000 births each year which includes an estimated 900 births to Aboriginal families.

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.

Screening requirements:

• Registered or eligible for registration as a Nurse and or Nurse/Midwife with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia and who holds, or who is eligible to hold, a current practicing certificate
• DHS Working With Children Check (WWCC) - Prospective or current employee clearance
• National Police Certificate (NPC) for employment involving unsupervised contact with vulnerable groups.
• The Immunisation Risk for this position is - Category A
  • Mandatory Vaccinations - Diphtheria, Pertussis (Whooping Cough), Polio, Hepatitis B, Measles, Mumps, Rubella, Varicella (Chickenpox), Tuberculosis (TB) Assessment.
  • Strongly Recommended Vaccinations - Hepatitis A, Seasonal Influenza, SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19)

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

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

Want to know more about this opportunity?

Contact Tracy Paproth, Regional Manager

Phone: 0422 000 084

E-mail: tracy.paproth@sa.gov.au

Be Quick, Applications Close:

11.55pm ACST, Sunday 5th January 2025.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants are encouraged to apply. Job ref: 889687

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