• Central Adelaide Local Health Network
• Sefton Park SA, 5083
• Salary: RN/M4 - $128,327 - $133,758 p.a. + Superannuation & Salary Sacrifice Benefits
• Full Time, Contracted Role up to 31 Dec 2025

About the Role

Are you ready to take on a leadership role in advanced nursing practice? As a Nurse Practitioner within CALHN’s Integrated Care Geriatrics services, you will bring your high-level clinical expertise to support older people with cognitive, functional, medical, social, and environmental complexities. Collaborating with a multidisciplinary team, you will play a key role in hospital avoidance and supported discharge strategies, ensuring safe and efficient patient transitions to home and community-based services. Your practice will focus on reducing unnecessary hospital admissions and enhancing patient outcomes.

In this dynamic and impactful position, you will use your nursing expertise and leadership to influence clinical care, policy development, and interprofessional collaboration. You will also contribute to clinical education within the organisation, ensuring that contemporary practices are shared across teams. As a Nurse Practitioner, you will be accountable for your nursing practice, professional advice, and delegated care decisions, working within a scope of practice approved by the LHN Nursing and Midwifery Credentialing Committee. This is an exciting opportunity to lead and innovate in a critical area of patient care.

About You

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Nurse Practitioner to join our team. In this role, you will bring your advanced clinical expertise, leadership, and commitment to delivering exceptional patient care. To excel in this position, you will demonstrate:

• Qualifications and Registration: Current or eligible registration as a Nurse Practitioner with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia, including authorisation with AHPRA and a practising certificate with the Nurse Practitioner notation.
• Skills and Leadership: Strong abilities in autonomous practice, effective leadership, and advanced communication, problem-solving, and change management skills, with a focus on fostering teamwork and innovation.
• Experience: Extensive experience in managing complex and vulnerable patients, clinical decision-making, triage, and developing out-of-hospital services, as well as mentoring and supervising nursing staff and students.
• Knowledge: Comprehensive understanding of the Nurse Practitioner role, relevant legislation, professional standards, and contemporary health care issues, with a focus on community-based patient management and safety.

If you are a dynamic and dedicated professional passionate about delivering innovative and patient-centred care, we’d love to hear from you!

About CALHN

The Central Adelaide Local Health Network includes South’s Australia’s major quaternary facility, the Royal Adelaide Hospital, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, the Hampstead Rehabilitation Centre, and the Repat Health Precinct. We also deliver mental health services at Glenside Health Services and at a range of other locations across the metropolitan and regional areas.

We’re looking for talented staff to join us and help us to shape the future of health through world-class care and world-class research and achieve our vision of being in the top 50 health services in the world and top 5 in Australia.

Benefit of Joining CALHN 

At CALHN, we're dedicated to your career satisfaction and wellbeing, offering tailored benefits for healthcare professionals, including:

• Salary Attractions: Flexible options for salary packaging covering living expenses, meal and entertainment allowances, and novated leasing.
• Professional Development: Opportunity to apply for reimbursement of eligible professional development activities, and access to dedicated leave for ongoing learning.
• Annual Leave: Enjoy paid recreation leave for essential rejuvenation, with leave loading applied.
• Flexible Work Arrangements: The South Australian public sector promotes diversity and flexible ways of working including part-time. Applicants are encouraged to discuss the flexible working arrangements for this role.
• Health and Fitness Benefits: Access to Fitness Passport, a discounted workplace health and fitness program available to CALHN staff and their families. 
• Career Opportunities: Explore career growth within the SA Health system with opportunities for skill development and movement across various metropolitan and regional sites. 
• Employee Assistance Program: Confidential counselling and support services are available via our Employee Assistance Program.

Join CALHN for a fulfilling career bolstered by comprehensive benefits and unwavering commitment to your success.

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

CALHN is an Equal Opportunities employer committed to providing an inclusive workplace that embraces diversity and inclusion for all employees. We strongly encourage applications from people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent, culturally diverse backgrounds, disability, all genders, and LGBTQI+ community.

Application Information:

• Please refer to the role description for essential educational/vocational qualifications that may be required.
• Appointment will be subject to a satisfactory Criminal History Check and compliant Immunisation screening as indicated in the role description.
• SA Health Services are required to implement the Addressing vaccine preventable disease: Occupational assessment, screening and vaccination policy in the workplace.

Please note that unsolicited applications from recruitment agencies or third parties will not be accepted for this position.

Job ref: 883358

Enquiries to:

Name: Jackie Kerr, Nurse Unit Manager- Geriatrics in the Home

Phone: 0466491106

E-mail: jackie.kerr@sa.gov.au

Application Closing Date

11:55 pm Wednesday 4^th December 2024

Refer to the SA Health Career Website - How to apply for further information

 883358 RN4 Nurse Practitioner Role Description IC Geriatrics RD.pdf

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