Clinical Nurse Consultant

7 days ago


North Ryde, New South Wales, Australia Dementia Australia Full time
About the Role

This is a part-time fixed-term contract role (4 days per week) based in a dynamic and supportive environment. The Clinical Nurse Consultant for the Nightingale Program will work as a sole practitioner and be responsible for providing comprehensive nursing, dementia, and palliative assessments, information, guidance, and support to enable people and their families to live well during the advancing and end stages of dementia.

Key Responsibilities
  • Undertake high-standard nursing assessments utilizing standardized nursing assessment tools appropriate to the clinical presentation.
  • Ensure timely allocation of program resources for referrals.
  • Provide detailed care planning following assessment, using a person-centered and multidisciplinary team approach.
  • Offer information, including psycho-educational and psycho-social interventions and resources, about complex health symptoms associated with dementia, end-stage dementia, and end-of-life to people diagnosed with dementia, their families, and carers.
What We Offer
  • Salary benefits: we offer all employees the opportunity to salary package up to $15,900 each year for living expenses and up to $2,650 each year for entertainment benefits.
  • Leave allowances: for permanent and fixed-term roles, in addition to your annual leave allowance, you will receive one day paid birthday leave, up to three paid days off during our end-of-year closure period (if these days fall within your regular working schedule), up to six weeks parental leave, and 17.5% annual leave loading.
  • Work-life balance: flexible, hybrid work arrangements.
  • Employee benefits: access to discounts and savings at over 450 retailers across Australia. Wellbeing programs and access to free and confidential counselling sessions for you and your family. Paid study leave.
About You
  • Registered Nurse with 5+ years postgraduate experience with current registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA).
  • Understanding of dementia and ability to provide comprehensive nursing assessment and consultation for people with dementia, their families, and carers.
  • Demonstrated knowledge and experience of clinical presentations and complex comorbidities of people with dementia in late and palliative stages of dementia.
  • Demonstrated knowledge and experience of nursing care assessment and practices in care of people with dementia.
  • Demonstrated ability to develop, plan, implement, and evaluate care and support plans for people with dementia with complex care needs.
  • Knowledge of end-of-life issues for people with dementia, their families, and carers.
  • Proven ability to liaise effectively and advocate with community, aged, and disability services, medical, allied health, and other healthcare professionals and services.
  • High-level interpersonal and communication skills (written, verbal, presentation skills, etc.).
  • Tertiary qualification in Nursing is required; postgraduate studies in Palliative Care and/or Dementia Care will be highly regarded.


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