Nurse Practitioner/Transitional Nurse Practitioner Complex Wound Management

An exciting opportunity exists for an expert wound practitioner to undertake advanced nursing practice in the community setting and support the educational and professional development of Community Nursing staff.

Employment Type: Permanent Full Time
Position Classification: Dependent on qualification
Hours Per Week: 38
Requisition ID: REQ663905

Salary per week:

Nurse Practitioner: $2,756.90 - $2,951.90 per week

Transitional Nurse Practitioner: $2,603.12 - $2,655.03 

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

 
Northern Sydney Home Nursing Service - Macquarie Hospital North Ryde. Provision of service across NSLHD in home, RACF and clinic-based settings.

What you'll be doing
A Nurse Practitioner (NP) is a registered nurse educated and authorised to function autonomously and collaboratively in an advanced and extended clinical role. The NP role includes the assessment and management of patients using nursing knowledge and skills and may include but is not limited to initiation of diagnostic investigations, prescribing of medications and direct referral of patients to other health care professionals. The NP role is grounded in the nursing profession's values, knowledge, theories and practice and provides innovative and flexible health care delivery that complements other health care providers (ANMC 2006). NPs practice collaboratively as an interdependent member of the multidisciplinary health care team and provide autonomous, patient centered care.

In this role, you will specialise in Complex Wound Management, providing expert clinical leadership in the assessment, treatment and ongoing management of patients with acute and chronic wounds. You will play a key role in improving patient outcomes through evidence-based practice, clinical consultation, education and support of staff managing complex wounds across community settings. The successful applicant will demonstrate highly developed communication and interpersonal skills, enabling effective collaboration with a broad range of clinicians and specialists both within and outside the public health system. You will contribute to the formulation and coordination of treatment and management plans aligned with current best practice, while ensuring patient involvement in decision-making, often within complex and challenging socio-economic circumstances.

Northern Sydney Home Nursing Service (NSHNS) is a generalist Community Nursing service, delivering care to clients in their homes and clinic environments. The service provides a broad range of clinical care including comprehensive assessments, care coordination and referrals to appropriate services and specialists based on patient needs. Clinical staff deliver medication administration (oral, parenteral and topical), wound care ranging from simple to highly complex, palliative and end-of-life care, syringe driver management, chronic disease monitoring (including respiratory and heart failure), continence assessments, indwelling and suprapubic catheter care, central venous access device (CVAD) management and more.

The NP/TNP will work closely with and support NSHNS Community Nursing staff, enhancing capability in complex wound management while contributing to holistic patient care. Patients managed within this role are often also under the care of generalist Registered Nurses and may present with multiple, co-existing health needs beyond wound care. You will provide specialist input while working collaboratively with the broader team to ensure coordinated, comprehensive and person-centred care across the continuum.

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

 Candidates will need to meet the following criteria: