Clinical Practice Consultant

**SA Health**
**Job reference**: 861345

**Location**: 5253 - MURRAY BRIDGE

**Job status**: Ongoing

**Eligibility**: Open to Everyone
- **Southern Adelaide Local Health Network - DASSA - Outpatient Services**:

- **Salary: $121,537 to $126,970 (Pro-Rata) - RN/M3 - Part Time 0.4 FTE / Ongoing appointment**

Overview:
Employees classified at this level provide clinical expertise for DASSA’s response to alcohol and other drug health issues, with an emphasis on primary and tertiary prevention, assessment, case management, counselling, referral and rehabilitation of patients in hospital and in community outpatient settings.

The service includes assessment, counselling, psychosocial interventions, medication assisted treatment, case management and referral of people with drug and alcohol related problems and their families, and the provision of information, training, clinical consultation, advice and support to other service providers.

The Clinical Practice Consultant also undertakes responsibilities by:

- undertaking assessment of hospital patients in response to requests by admitting teams
- recommending interventions and investigations, in management of patients (when occasion arises and within own scope of practice and level of expertise).
- using diagnostic tools to aid accurate assessment
- Provide specialist assessment, counselling and psychosocial interventions
- Facilitating the development of the care plans and treatment goals

Employees classified at this level are experts within their area and stream of practice and have a significant degree of autonomy and decision making.

Employees in this role accept accountability for their nursing/midwifery practice, the outcomes of nursing/midwifery practices for the specific patient/client group, the professional advice given, delegations of care made and for addressing inconsistencies between practice and policy.

The incumbent will be required to provide a regional service to more than one community within the Local Health Network on a regular schedule.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants are encouraged to apply. **Job ref: 861345**

**Criminal History Screening Requirement**
- A National Police Certificate (NPC) for employment involving ‘Unsupervised Contact with Vulnerable Groups’ is required for this position (E.g. aged care employment or work involving vulnerable clients)
- A DHS ‘Working With Children Check’ (WWCC) is required for this position

**Immunisation Risk for this position is Category A (direct contact with blood or body substances)**

SA Health Services are required to implement the Addressing vaccine preventable disease: Occupational assessment, screening and vaccination policy in the workplace.

**Special Conditions**
- Registered or eligible for registration as a Nurse by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia and holds, or who is eligible to hold, a current practicing certificate
- Current driver’s licence is essential and frequent intra state travel is a requirement of the role.
- The incumbent may be required to work from any site within the regional Local Health Network or Metropolitan area.
- Flexibility and some out of hours work may be required.

**Enquiries**

Donna Newman

Advanced Nurse Unit Manager

Phone: 08 8325 8111

**Application Closing Date**

**Saturday, 23 March 2024**:

- 11.55PM

**Attachments**
- 861345 - Clinical Practice Consultant - DASSA Outpatient Services - Role Description.pdf
- Australian applicant guidelines
- International applicant guidelines

**Flexibility Statement**
The South Australian public sector promotes diversity and flexible ways of working including part-time. Applicants are encouraged to discuss the flexible working arrangements for this role.