Nurse Practitioner/ Transitional Nurse Practitioner
Position Classification: Nurse Practitioner
Location: Nepean Hospital
Remuneration: Dependant on Qualifications
Hours Per Week: 38
Requisition ID: REQ541154
Applications Close: 19/01/2025
This position is dependent on Qualifications:
Midwife/ Nurse Practitioner - ($139,661.16 - $149,538.56 per annum)
Clinical Nurse Consultant Grade 2 - ($131,870.90 - $134,500.69 per annum)
With CORE Values of Collaboration, Openness, Respect and Empowerment,
working with us will ensure your professional life is provided every opportunity to succeed
and develop in your chosen career role.
About Us
Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District (NBMLHD) is a wonderful place to expand your career and grow your skills and knowledge. As a recognised leader in the healthcare industry, we provide a range of public health services to the Nepean, Blue Mountains, and Lithgow Region.
Nepean Hospital is a teaching hospital that provides tertiary referral services in emergency care, coronary care, diagnostics, gynaecology, paediatric, neonatal intensive care/ICU, maternity, mental health, rehabilitation, and surgery. The Nepean Campus has recently experienced tremendous growth and aims to support communities within and outside of Sydney’s western suburbs, providing world-class clinical facilities, services, and care.
An incredible opportunity is now available to join the team in Palliative Care as a Nurse Practitioner/Transitional Nurse Practitioner in End of Life Care at Nepean Hospital. This is a Permanent Full time position on offer.
The Supportive and Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner/Transitional Nurse Practitioner NP/TNP is a registered nurse educated and authorised to function autonomously and collaboratively in an advanced and extended clinical role.
Your role as the NP/TNP provides independent and collaborative expert Palliative Care Nursing for patients with life limiting illness. This includes promotion and maintenance of optimum quality of life, as well as the provision of individualised supportive and palliative care to the patient and their family/carers.
The NP/TNP role will have a particular focus on developing and leading new models of care and collaborative partnerships between the Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District and key stakeholders to provide better health care and access to specialist palliative care for older people with complex needs who have a life limiting illness.
Working as part of a multidisciplinary team, the NP/TNP will provide clinical care, timely expert intervention and management of complex care patients referred to the Supportive and Palliative Care Service. The NP/TNP will achieve high standards of nursing care at the level of advanced practice and promote an autonomous working model for advanced practice nurses.
The NP/TNP extended practice role includes comprehensive assessment, interpretation of diagnostics, implementation of treatment modalities and relevant referral skills applied to a broad range of challenging, complex and changing situations within the Supportive and Palliative Care setting.
Join the NBMLHD team today, apply now!
Benefits available to eligible NBMLHD employees
· Accrued Day Off (ADO)
· Opportunity for extra tax savings through Salary Packaging
· Novated Leasing
· Great education opportunities through Education Training Service which offers over 110 courses each year
· Access to our Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for staff and family members
· Fitness Passport
NBMLHD is committed to achieving a diverse workforce and is an Equal Opportunity Employer and actively encourages diversity and inclusion within our workforce. We encourage and welcome applications from people of diverse backgrounds including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders; people living with disability; people from a Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) background; people who identify as LGBTQI+, people with a lived experience of mental health concerns and people of mature age.
For assistance with applying through the NSW Health Career Portal please click here.
What you will bring to the role:
- Registered Nurse Division 1 with AHPRA including endorsement as a Nurse Practitioner or working towards same as per the NMBA Guidelines on endorsement as a Nurse Practitioner, with evidence of eligibility to attain authorisation within 2 years
- Post graduate qualification in palliative care or relevant clinical specialty
- Demonstrated high level knowledge and advanced clinical nursing skills including comprehensive assessment, interpretation of diagnostics, implementation of treatment modalities and relevant referral skills applied to a broad range of challenging, complex and changing situations
- Demonstrated understanding of Supportive and Palliative Care, with an ability to lead and implement changes and develop direction in clinical practice by the initiation, utilisation and review of evidence-based research
- Proven high level knowledge and expertise in complex client centred consultancy, practice development activities including mentoring, education, active participation in communities of practice, policy development and quality improvement
- Demonstrated advanced clinical leadership role, negotiation, liaison, interpersonal and problem-solving skills across a Supportive and Palliative Care service
- Demonstrated ability to work with a high degree of autonomy and accountability while also working collaboratively in a multidisciplinary and multi service environment
- Current Driver's Licence and willingness to use for work purpose travel
Employment of a temporary visa holder may only occur if no suitable permanent resident or citizen of Australia has been identified and must not exceed the duration or conditions associated with the current visa.
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For role related queries or questions contact Sarah Spinks on sarah.spinks@health.nsw.gov.au
