Child and Family Health Clinical Nurse Consultant

Child and Family Health nurses work with families to improve the lives of their children. This role supports nurses to capture best practice in medical records to support comprehensive care and improve health outcomes for families.

Employment Type: Temporary Part Time until 30 June 2027 (with possibility of ongoing employment)
Position Classification: Clinical Nurse Consultant Grade 2
Remuneration: $68.50 - $69.87 per hour
Hours Per Week: 30
Requisition ID: REQ641405

Who we are: We are a health service that touches thousands of lives across the Northern Sydney Local Health District, together as a team of like-minded people. We are passionate, driven and have the skills and knowledge to care for our patients whilst creating the best services possible. Our teams have meaningful, interesting and rewarding work everyday. We challenge and nurture each other, sharing our knowledge and experience so that we can deliver better care for everyone There’s a real sense of belonging here because we value and respect our patients, employees, and teams’ voices. You’ll feel a real privilege being a trusted caregiver in our patients, their families, their carers, and our communities’ lives. 

NSLHD is proud of our diverse and inclusive workplaces, a place where health care professionals can thrive and feel they belong. We are committed to ensure that all our people feel respected and participate safely within a work environment without aggression, sexual harassment, discrimination and racism.

Where you'll be working

 
Base Location is Macquarie Hospital

What you'll be doing
The Child, Youth and Family (CYF) Health Clinical Nurse Consultant (CNC) - Quality and Data works as part of the senior CYF Health Clinical leadership team. 

The CYF CNC is an expert nurse who provides leadership, advice and recommendations relating to all aspects of nursing service quality monitoring and improvement including clinical documentation. The position consults on matters relating to the safe and appropriate use of eMR in all aspects of nursing practices. The CNC will formulate and implement policy, guide practice development, and engage in education and research activities relevant to the scope of the role. 
The CNC takes a lead role:

• In supporting optimal function and initiating innovative redesign of the CYF specific components of the electronic medical record (eMR) to ensure the system supports safe, person-centred and integrated multidisciplinary care, safe handover, and service evaluation.
• In clinical service evaluation and coordinating routine and tailored organisational reporting requirements by producing routine and tailored data reports.
• In planning and supporting District-wide CYF Nursing quality improvement projects across CYFHN teams.
• For all projects focused on improving clinical documentation and the eMR CHOC system functioning. 
• In supporting services to meet and embed national quality and safety and professional standards into all aspects of practice. 
• As the primary liaison point between CYF and the Local Health District (LHD) Information Communications and Technology (ICT) in relation to initiating, designing and implementing new eMR system changes.
• Providing education, training, and consultancy and mentoring for staff to optimise CYF clinical documentation and effective and safe use of eMR. 
• In supporting CYF health literacy and service access strategies for families, by managing and overseeing updates to the NLSHD CYF website content and developing patient workflows.

People of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander background are encouraged to apply.

Candidates will need to meet the following criteria: