Clinical Teacher

Location: Western Region | Ballarat

Job type: Part time

Organisation: Grampians Health

**Salary**: Salary not specified

Occupation: Education and Training

Reference: 16768

**Centre for Education and Training - Clinical Teacher**

**Fixed term part time (40 hours per fortnight)**

**About Grampians Health**

Grampians Health was established 1 November 2021, bringing together Edenhope and District Memorial Hospital, Stawell Regional Health, Wimmera Health Care Group and Ballarat Health Services to deliver safe, sustainable, healthcare tailored to changing workforce and community needs, for the long term.

This partnership follows years of strong collaboration and close partnerships between the four health services. Together, we will deliver better healthcare, enhance services and advance careers, closer to home, now and into the future.

A career with Grampians Health means you are connected and are part of a team providing quality healthcare to rural and regional communities. Our communities are diverse - as is our workforce, with expert clinical staff from across the world choosing to live and work in our beautiful region.

Grampians Health provides acute, maternity, mental health, allied health, aged care, administration and support services. This means your career will be as diverse and rewarding as you strive to be.

**About the role**
- part-time capacity. This position will provide support and supervision to undergraduate nursing students in acute, subacute, residential (with the ability to work in ED) and you will be responsible for providing direct clinical support and instructions, helping students develop their learning and confidence, and assessing students against their standards of practice.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Facilitate clinical workplace experience at the bedside with the student while participating in patient and client care.
- Liaise with the Clinical Placement Co-Ordinator & Early Career Lead in relation to student placements, rostering of students, and the recording of data on Place Right.
- Co-ordinate and manage the allocated student roster to maintain a current, accurate data base of information.
- Collate and write reports using accurate performance criteria as required in relation to the student placement, this includes formative and summative assessments and mid and final placement feedback.

**Skills and Experience**
- A tertiary qualification in nursing practice and registered with the Australian Health Practitioner Agency as a Registered Nurse
- A tertiary qualification in field of adult education and/or Cert IV in TAE or working towards
- An understanding of education frameworks including Best Practice Clinical Learning Environment
- Experience working within the healthcare setting, well-developed understanding of all clinical areas, disciplines and the ability to develop and maintain internal and external partnerships
- An understanding of administration and clinical workflows as they relate to the learners on placement
- Well development IT skills, written and verbal skills

**Personal Qualities**
- Teamwork: cooperates and works well with others; collaborates and shares information, shows consideration, concern and respect for others feelings and ideas, accommodates and works well with the different working styles of others, encourages resolution of conflict.
- Relationship building: establishes and maintains relationships with people at all levels; promotes harmony and consensus through diplomatic handling of disagreements; forges useful partnerships with people across functions and organisations; builds trust through consistent actions, values and communication
- Conceptual and analytical ability: deals with concepts and complexity comfortably; uses analytical and conceptual skills to reason through problems; has creative ideas and can project how these can link to innovations.
- Creativity and innovation: generate new ideas; draws on a range of information sources to identify new ways of doing things; actively influences events and promotes ideas; translates creative ideas into workplace improvements; reflects on experience and is open to new ways to improve practice.
- Detail focus: observes fine details; identifies gaps in information; looks for logical sequences of information; highlights practical considerations of plans and activities.
- Initiative and accountability: proactive and self-starting; seizes opportunities and acts upon them; takes responsibility for own actions.

**Grampians Health Culture & Benefits**

At Grampians Health, we recognise our staff are our greatest asset. We are committed to providing a safe and healthy environment for our staff, patients, residents, visitors, volunteers and contractors at all sites.
- Flexible work arrangements and purchase leave opportunities
- Salary packaging for living expenses such as rent/mortgage plus meals, entertainment & holidays
- Discounted on-site parking
- Access to discounted health club members