Nurse Specialist

About the Role

As a Nurse Specialist with Pink Hope, you will play a vital role in supporting individuals in managing their cancer risk. This part-time position (8 hours per week) will involve working from home with occasional support needed at educational events or conferences. Your key responsibilities will include:

• Assisting patients in navigating the healthcare system and developing a holistic care plan to manage cancer risk.
• Supporting the medical review of content and campaigns for the organisation, ensuring that content is evidence-based and in line with up-to-date guidelines.
• Participating in network meetings and quality improvement initiatives.
• Engaging in nurse education programs within the network.
• Creating online education sessions on topics relevant to the high-risk community.
• Participating in data collection, health outcomes reporting, and programmatic evaluation.
• Evaluating clinical care, utilisation of resources, and development of new clinical tools, forms, and procedures.
• Conducting administrative tasks and small projects to support patient populations, such as developing information materials and creating content.

About the Organisation

Pink Hope is Australia's leading patient-focused organisation committed to supporting people in understanding and reducing their risk of hereditary cancer. Our mission is to empower all Australians to understand and manage their hereditary cancer risk by educating them about their health history, providing evidence-based resources, and connecting them to support. We are a small organisation with 5 people in different states and territories. This role is focused on supporting individuals in managing their cancer risk and complements what is provided in the clinical setting.

About the Program

Australia has an excellent health system, and patients are offered exceptional treatment, care, support, and opportunities to participate in medical research. However, with so much to offer comes complexity, difficulty in navigating the health system, and challenges in knowing about and accessing existing services, resulting in decreased satisfaction with the health system. In addition, with an ever-evolving clinical trial environment and new technologies emerging, we need to create systems that can adapt and keep up to date with these opportunities while supporting patients and their families. When diagnosed with a condition, the first point of call for many patients is to go to local patient organisations for information and support. The Pathways Telehealth Service makes the most of this relationship by establishing a central point of contact within non-profit organisations - a specialist, Pathways nurse – to help patients and their families access existing services and connect them with opportunities to participate in medical research and patient feedback initiatives. Pink Hope is one of the partner organisations within the Pathways program.

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