Clinical Educator - NICU (Grade 5)

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Parkville
Part Time

Clinical Educator - NICU (Grade 5)
Ongoing position - 32 hours per week

The Royal Women’s Hospital is Australia’s first and largest specialist hospital dedicated to improving the health and wellbeing of newborns and women of all ages. To join the Women’s is to be instrumental in forging progress towards health equity for women from ground-breaking research through to the bedside delivery of multi-disciplinary clinical care.

Creating exceptional experiences is at the heart of everything we do for our patients, their families, and our people across our specialised services within maternity, neonatal and women’s health.

Clinical Education Program

The Clinical Education Program supports the hospital to achieve its strategic directions by the provision of frameworks for the professional development of health professionals.  The Clinical Education Program supports the growth and maintenance of the future nursing and midwifery workforce through coordination of the nursing and midwifery student, graduate and Transition to Specialty Practice (TSP) programs. The Clinical Education Program further collaborates with other health professional groups to promote best practice clinical learning environments (BPCLE) across the organization. The Clinical Education Program promotes pathways for engagement and retention of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Professional Students and works with services to promote culturally safe environments for learning. The Clinical Education Program is the central collaborator for the Women’s Health Legal Alliance with Inner Melbourne Legal Service.

The Clinical Education Program promotes and supports contemporary professional practice within a collaborative framework, increasingly engaging a variety of self-directed and multi-media activities which incorporate adult learning principles and meet organisational needs to have workforce of safe, competent health professionals.  

Newborn, Intensive and Special Care (NICU)

Newborn Intensive and Special Care (NICU) is a tertiary level nursery where specialist care is provided to approximately 1600 premature and medically very sick babies per year (695 Intensive Care). The unit also has a key role in providing education and training for local, national and international health professionals and has an extensive research program.

The Women's neonatal unit has been designed as one unit with both intensive and special care nursery pods; with a total of 59 cots. The NICU model of care is under pinned by several principles which were developed to improve consistency and continuity of care and the engagement of families.

Your contribution  

The Clinical Educator (NICU) is a pivotal learning and education leadership position. This position has direct leadership of the Clinical Support Nurse (CSN) NICU team. The position is responsible for the development and delivery of a program of neonatal professional development for midwifery/nursing staff across the organisation (with a focus on NICU services) that promotes family centred care and meets strategic unit and organisational needs. The position is further responsible for coordinating the delivery of the clinical experience to employed post graduate NICU learners in collaboration with partner education providers, other educators and the NICU leadership team.  The position develops and coordinates professional development programs for internal and external participants including rural and regional partnerships and provides direct leadership to the NICU clinical support nurse (CSN) team.

Your duties will include (but are not limited to) the following:

• Develop frameworks for rural and regional placements at the Women’s NICU e.g. Maternity Connect program
  
• Develop, coordinate and conduct professional development days for internal and external audiences
  
• Deliver and support the employed post graduate NICU student program
  

About you

To be successful within this role you will need to have:

• Registered nurse with recent and extensive experience in NICU
• Current leadership/management experience.  Demonstrated ability to lead positive high performing teams
  

Our offering

When you join the Women’s you unite with talented people who share your purpose and unwavering determination to advance health outcomes for all women. You will find a workplace that is collaborative, progressive and passionate about learning and working together in multi-disciplinary teams to ensure you find the exceptional in your everyday.

Our staff benefits program includes salary packaging, on-site car parking and childcare (subject to availability), alongside a range of discounted financial, lifestyle and wellbeing benefits provided by our staff benefit partners. To learn more, please visit: www.thewomens.org.au/careers/why-work-at-the-womens/staff-benefits/

We are proudly White Ribbon and Breastfeeding Association accredited. The Women’s is committed to gender equity principles and our people have an awareness of and sensitive approach to violence against women/family violence matters. 

The Women’s is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and social inclusion. We welcome applications from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, including those from Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islanders, people with lived experience of disability and people who identify as LGBTI.

Ready to make the move?

For more information about the position, please see the Position Description attached and apply online by selecting “apply now” below.

All appointments to the Women’s are subject to a satisfactory clearance of Working with Children Check and Police Check.

Enquiries: Fleur Llewelyn
Ph: (03) 8345 2913
Applications Close: 26/07/2018

To view the position description or submit your application please click the 'Apply Now' button below.