Nurse Consultant McGrath Cancer Care
Job no: 880228
Work type: Full time
Location: Adelaide Hills
Categories: Various categories
- Barossa Hills Fleurieu Local Health Network - Community Nursing, Mount Barker
- Salary: RN/M3 $121,537 to $126,970 p.a.
- Temporary Full time position working up to 30 June 2027
Overview
You will provide clinical nursing expertise for clients referred to the McGrath Cancer Care Program. You will also provide clinical leadership and advice to the Barossa Hills Fleurieu Region Community Nursing Team in the management of cancer care for clients and families with cancer. Practicing with a significant degree of autonomy and decision making, you will provide direct nursing care to clients as well as coordinating projects or programs that improve client care outcomes. Accepting accountability for your nursing practice and the outcomes of nursing practices for clients with cancer, you will strive for continuous improvement in the professional advice given, delegations of care made, and address inconsistencies between practice and policy. Keeping professionally up-to-date with relevant research, technological advances and the McGrath Cancer Care models of care, you will work collaboratively within the multidisciplinary team and across organisational divisions and sites to promote communication processes that enable the best client outcomes.
You will be registered or eligible for registration as a Nurse with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia, and hold or be eligible to hold a current practicing certificate. With demonstrated competence in the clinical management of clients diagnosed with cancer, or prior experience in cancer care, you will demonstrate flexibility, innovation and creativity within the service setting. Your strong communication and interpersonal skills will equip you to work appropriately and in a culturally respectful way with women and families where there are multiple complexities, diverse cultural backgrounds and expectations.
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.
In addition to the annual salary package we also offer salary sacrifice benefits, employer superannuation contributions and leave loading.
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.
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Enquiries
Name: Joe Byrne
Title: Program Manager OOH
Phone: 0402 185 028
E-mail: Joe.Byrne@sa.gov.au
Application Closing Date
16 October 2024 - 2 week close - 11.55PM
Attachments
880228 - RN3 Nurse Consultant McGrath Cancer Care role description.pdf
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