Clinical Nurse Diabetes Nurse Educator

**SA Health**
**Job reference**: 877611
**Location**: 5000 - ADELAIDE
**Job status**: Ongoing
**Eligibility**: Open to Everyone
- **Central Adelaide Local Health Network, The Royal Adelaide Hospital**:

- **Salary RN-2 $84,870 - $107,279 p.a. (pro rata)**:

- **Permanent full-time and part-time positions**

**About the role**

We currently have an exciting opportunity to join the CALHN Diabetes Education Service as a Clinical Nurse, Diabetes Education. Start and stretch your career with us by consolidating experience, further study and developing from competent to proficient practitioner. We are not just a hospital but a single service with multiple sites and providers of holistic care. We provide the opportunity to develop a career as an experienced diabetes expert.
The role is patient facing, educating patients with all types of diabetes to assist them in their daily self-management in and out of hospital.

**The CN Diabetes Education**:

- Is responsible and accountable for providing nursing services and the provision of quality patient centred care to adults (with their carers) with type 1, type 2, type 3C, LADA, steroid induced, post-transplant, and cystic fibrosis related diabetes mellitus.
- Works with other specialties include renal, cardiology, cardio thoracic surgery, surgery, haematology, oncology, respiratory, vascular, podiatry, and islet cell transplants
- Works in partnership with the person with diabetes (and significant others) and in collaboration with other health professionals to ensure maximum health outcomes, using patient-centred model of care
- Accepts accountability for their own practice standards and responsibility for activities delegated to others, as well as the guidance and development of less experienced staff
- Consolidates knowledge and skills, and develops capacity through experience and continuous professional development
- Works to actively seek, assess, implement, and evaluate quality improvement activities
- Practices within agreed evidence-based practice standards and integrates advanced clinical knowledge; demonstrates the necessary competency to provide care relevant to each patient’s needs and agreed patient care outcomes
- Works with and develops in the use of information technology (IT) for successful use of software programs with the patient, to assist the management of insulin pump therapy and continuous glucose monitoring

**Qualifications**

Registered or eligible for registration as a Nurse with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia and who holds, or who is eligible to hold, a current practicing certificate.

**About CALHN**

The Central Adelaide Local Health Network includes South’s Australia’s major quaternary facility, the Royal Adelaide Hospital, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, the Hampstead Rehabilitation Centre, and the Repat Health Precinct. We also deliver mental health services at Glenside Health Services and at a range of other locations across the metropolitan and regional areas.

We’re looking for talented staff to join us and help us to shape the future of health through world-class care and world-class research and achieve our vision of being in the top 50 health services in the world and top 5 in Australia.

**What we offer**
- Attractive salary packaging available
- Strong community minded culture and values providing world class care to South Australians
- Access to Fitness Passport, a discounted workplace health and fitness program available to CALHN staff and their families.
- Opportunity for movement across the SA Health system: There are always opportunities for you to develop your skills and your career at one of our many metropolitan or regional sites.

Join our expert and patient-centred team contributing to providing central Adelaide adolescents to adults with the best health care through our inpatient hospital service and outpatient services. Be part of shaping our service:

- Developing as an accredited Diabetes Centre with the future plan to be accredited as “Centre of Excellence”
- Committed to the values of integrity, respect, and accountability
- Value care, excellence, innovation, creativity, leadership, and equity in health care provision
- People first; future focused; ideas driven and community minded

**Essential Requirements**:

- Current National Police Clearance (NPC)
- Immunisation screening as indicated in the role description. SA Health Services are required to implement the Addressing vaccine preventable disease: Occupational assessment, screening and vaccination policy in the workplace.

Diversity and inclusion: At CALHN we support and foster a culture in which employees feel they belong and feel safe at work. The culture aims to encourage all people to use their talents and to be valued and rewarded for their contributions.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants are encouraged to apply.

**About you**

To be successful in this role, you will have:

- Registered Nurse with at least 3 y