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Start your journey to a new life in Australia today! Learn more about our low cost membership options by Clicking HereJob description: Employment Type: Permanent Full Time and Part Time opportunities available
Position Classification: Registered Nurse
Remuneration: $67,357.32 – $94,568.44 per annum, pro rata (+ super + 17.5% leave loading where applicable)
Hours per Week: up to 38
Requisition ID: REQ368785
Applications Close: 8 February 2023
Vaccination Category: A (including influenza and 3 does of COVID-19 vaccination)
We strongly believe and live by ‘Our People are our Future.’ Join us today!
What we offer
- Relocation assistance and short-term accommodation options considered
- 482 temporary visa sponsorship considered
- Salary Packaging – up to $9k for living expenses + $2.6k meal & entertainment + $9k remote area housing + novated leasing
- Corporate Health and Fitness program
Where you’ll be working
Murrumbidgee Local Health District (MLHD) spans over 125,000 square kilometres across southern New South Wales, stretching from the Snowy Mountains in the east to the plains of Hillston in the northwest and all the way along the Victorian border.
As the largest employer in the region with over 5,000 healthcare FCPRstaff and volunteers working across 33 hospitals and 12 primary health care centres, we prioritise:
- Focusing on wellness
- Aspiring to excellence
- Investing in our people
- Working together in partnership
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About the Role
The Child and Family Health Nursing unit forms an integral part of primary health care. It acts as an entry point into the community health care system and occurs in multiple settings within the community, supporting an integrated multidisciplinary service response based on individual client and family needs. It aims to:
- Maintain, improve, and promote the optimal health and wellbeing of children aged 0-5 years and their families.
- Provide safe, compassionate care through the assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of nursing care.
- Collaborate with families and the multidisciplinary health care team to achieve safe quality care outcomes that meet the goals of the child and family.
The Child and Family Health Nurse practices within a primary health care framework to provide a comprehensive range of child and family health services to infants, children, their parents, carers, and families in pregnancy, where required, through to five (5) years of age. The Child and Family Health Nurse is responsible for:
- Utilising the Family Partnership Model as the foundation for the nurse-family relationship and supportive counselling to deliver programs such as Universal Health Home Visiting and Safe Start.
- Providing a screening and surveillance program for infants and children as informed by the NSW Personal Health Record using evidence-based tools.
- Providing opportunistic immunisations according to the NSW Childhood Immunisation Schedule (0-5 years).
- Actively promoting, protecting, and supporting breastfeeding.
- Facilitating evidence-based groups delivered to meet child health, development, and parenting support needs of families within the community.
How to apply
Your application will require you to include a:
- Resume; and
- Cover Letter outlining your skills and experience and why you are a good fit for this position
If interested, we encourage you to click apply promptly. Applications will be assessed as they are received, with suitable candidates contacted and progressed without delay..
New applicants must have completed the COVID-19 vaccination course prior to commencement with NSW Health or provide an approved medical contraindication certificate. Should a medical contraindication certificate be provided, ongoing employment post certificate expiry is conditional to meeting COVID-19 vaccination requirements.
MLHD is an Equal Opportunity Employer and encourage all suitably qualified applicants to apply, including Aboriginal People and people from racial, ethnic, or ethno-religious minority groups and people with disability.
Location: Australia
Original Job Posting date: Wed, 11 Jan 2023 23:36:26 GMT
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