Nurse Educator Grade 2 - Temporary Full Time
Position Classification: Nurse Educator Grade 2
Remuneration: $131,870.9 - $134,500.7 per annum plus superannuation
Hours Per Week: 38
Requisition ID: REQ552198
Applications Close: 23 February 2025
The Sutherland Hospital is now recruiting to Education Practice and Capability Service.
The vision for nursing and midwifery at The Sutherland Hospital is to: Build a united team that provides compassionate care to our community through transformational, supportive and holistic nursing and midwifery.
The Education Practice and Capability Service at The Sutherland Hospital is a dynamic team that contributes to the organisation’s strategic priorities, including fostering a culture of learning and inquiry and development of effective and safe workplace cultures. The team are responsible for building the organisation’s capability to be responsive to changes in the health service and the provision of high quality, safe, person-centred care. Our purpose is to “Enable and empower the provision of person centred compassionate care, which is achieved through development and learning for staff across the Sutherland Hospital and Community Service”
The team have responsibility for the GradStart program, orientation program, undergraduate program, coaching and facilitation development, clinical teaching, professional development, workshops and mandatory training.
What you'll be doing:
The vision for South Eastern Sydney Local Health District (SESLHD) is ‘exceptional care, healthier lives’. SESLHD is committed to enabling our community to be healthy and well, and to providing the best possible compassionate care when people need it.
The Nurse Educator is a registered nurse who has responsibility for providing nursing education, training and professional development in a range of contexts and environments in the health sector.
The Nurse Educator is responsible for the efficient and effective provision and evaluation of education, training and professional development for the new and existing staff. It is intended that nurses and midwives will practice within their professional nursing and/or midwifery roles.
The Nurse Educator Grade 2 shall be responsible for one of the following:
A nursing education portfolio or program across a public hospital or affiliated health organisation (including but not limited to a transition program, enrolled nurse or registered nurse program);
A nursing program for a clinical division or divisions across a public hospital or affiliated health organisation, or;
A nursing program for a community based health service such as community health or mental health services
The Benefits:
- Fitness Passport
- 4 weeks annual leave (pro-rata for part-time employees)
- Salary packaging options - Up to $9k for living expenses + $2.6k meal & entertainment + Novated leasing.
- Up to 12 allocated days off each year (for full-time employees)
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for employees and family members
- Discounted Private Health Insurance
We are excited to learn more about you and your experience. As part of the application process, we invite you to respond to the following targeted questions:
- Tell us about a time when you resolved a conflict or a challenge in a nursing/ midwifery setting. What problem-solving and communication skills did you use to achieve a positive outcome.
- Tell us about a time when you implemented change in a nursing education setting. How did you manage resistance, engage stakeholders, and ensure a successful outcome?
- How do you ensure continuous improvement in nursing education programs? Provide an example of how you have evaluated and enhanced an educational initiative?
Need more information?
1) Click here for the Position Description and SESLHD Expected Standards
2) Find out more about applying for this position
Our CORE Values are Collaboration, Openness, Respect and Empowerment and have been created by employees for employees and help define how we work and to inspire positive interactions in the workplace.
Reasonable Adjustments
NSW Health recognises everyone is unique, and that you may require some adjustments to ensure you have the best opportunity to apply. If we can make some adjustments to the NSW Health recruitment/interview process, then please email SESLHD-Recruitment-TSH-Garrawarra@health.nsw.gov.au and let us know.
Adjustments may include but are not limited to, physical requirements, interview setups and specific interview availability times where required.
Information for applicants:
- Employment of a temporary visa holder may only occur if no suitable permanent resident or citizen of Australia has been identified for this position following suitable labour market testing. Please note we are not offering sponsorship for work rights for this position.
- Applicants will be assessed against the essential requirements and selection criteria contained within the position description.
- Recommended applicants will be reviewed for compliance with NSW Health policy directive Occupational Assessment, Screening and Vaccination against Specific Diseases (including Covid-19) for all positions prior to offer.
- At South Eastern Sydney Local Health District we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, where we don’t just accept differences, but we honour and support it. Committed to providing a working environment that thrives and values diversity, we encourage people of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander background, people with a disability and people from the LGBTQI+ community to apply.
- SESLHD is committed to creating a workplace that reflects the diversity of our community. This will help ensure our employees, our patients and their carers, feel supported. We invite candidates of all ages, genders, sexual orientation, cultural backgrounds, people with disability, neurodiverse individuals, and Indigenous Australians to apply.
- We do have an Aboriginal Employment Consultant that can also provide support (SESLHD-AboriginalWorkforce@health.nsw.gov.au) and for additional information please visit our Stepping Up Website
