Registered Nurse - Child and Family Health - Griffith

Summary about this job

Detail information about job Registered Nurse - Child and Family Health - Griffith. Terms and conditions vacancy

 
Employment Type: Temporary Part Time until February 2019
Position Classification: Registered Nurse
Remuneration: $62,619.5 - $87,926.11 per annum pro rata
Hours Per Week: 8
Requisition ID: REQ55138
Vaccination Category: A
Applications Close: 1 August 2018
 
 
Plenty of opportunity to innovate services for rural patients
 
 
Where you will be working
 
At Murrumbidgee Local Health District we provide a range of public health services to the Riverina and Murray regions of New South Wales across a geographic area of approximately 125,631 square kilometres.  With around 241,000 residents living within our District we employ approximately 3,500 staff who work in our 31 facilities and support services.  Our facilities include a Rural Referral Hospital, Base and District Hospitals, Multi-Purpose Services and Community Health Facilities.
 
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What you will be doing
 
The Child and Family Health Nursing service forms an integral part of primary health care. It aims to maintain, improve and promote the optimal health and wellbeing of children aged 0-5 years and their families by providing safe, compassionate care through the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of nursing care in collaboration with families and the multidisciplinary health care team to achieve safe quality care outcomes that meet the goals of the child and family. 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.

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 nurse utilises 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.
 
The nurse will provide a screening and surveillance program for infants and children as informed by the NSW Personal Health Record using evidence-based tools and provide opportunistic immunisations according to the NSW Childhood Immunisation Schedule (0-5 years). The nurse will actively promote, protect and support breastfeeding and facilitate evidence-based groups delivered to meet child health, development and parenting support needs of families within the community.
 
Selection Criteria

• Registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA), with demonstrated evidence to meet the NMBA's Registered Nurse standards for practice and meet the NMBA approved standards, codes, guidelines and frameworks commensurate with the position.
• Postgraduate qualifications in child and family health nursing and Accredited Nurse Immuniser (applicants working towards same will be considered), along with evidence of completion of Family Partnership training (or willingness to undertake this training within 12 months at own expense). Accreditation as a Nurse Audiometrist, or willingness to undertake same.
• Demonstrates continuous quality improvement with the ability to: comprehensively conduct assessments; develop a plan for nursing practice; provide safe, appropriate and responsive quality nursing practice; and evaluates outcomes to inform nursing practice.

 
Please refer to the Position Description for the essential requirements and full selection criteria. Your application must include a current resume and address all selection criteria.
 
Additional Information

• This recruitment process includes pre-employment Online Safe for Work screening.
• Please note that to apply for this position you must be an Australian Citizen or Permanent Resident, or be able to independently and legally live and work in Australia.  For more information, please see www.immi.gov.au
• If you are applying for a Category ‘A’ position, please read and understand NSW Health Policy Directive PD2018_009.  All new employees must agree to comply with the requirements outlined in this policy.

 
Find out more about applying for this position
For role related queries or questions contact Victoria Fairfield-Smith on [email protected]
 
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.