Clinical Support Consultant

**Churches of Christ, Essendon and Oakleigh, Victoria**

**Clinical Support Consultant**

**Permanent, Part-time Opportunity**

**Imagine a career with Churches of Christ**

Our values encourage us to be accepting of differences and embrace all. Our size and variety offer you real choices and opportunities to grow your career.

We also offer:

- Work/life balance with the option to work school hours;
- Salary-packaging benefits that can increase your take-home pay;
- Grants (for eligible employees) to assist in formal study;
- Access to online learning platforms to further develop your skills;
- Employee discount program through our large network or retail partners (Bupa Health, Medibank, JB HI-FI etc);
- A work culture that values you.

**Highlighting the importance of this role**

The Clinical Support Consultant is responsible for the provision of expert clinical care support to our Residential Aged Care Facilities in Essendon and Oakleigh, Victoria.

This position will require you to work 60 hours per fortnight, with the flexibility to work school hours if needed, Monday-Friday, 6 hours per day.

In this role you will:

- Provide clinical support to services leadership and their teams and provide guidance on the Aged Care standards;
- Actively contribute to the development, implementation and evaluation of models of care to support the provision of quality, cost effective care to residents and clients;
- Support the evaluation of clinical practice in Services and identify solutions to improve practices;
- Evaluate delivery of individualised nursing care to residents / clients based on relevant legislation, guidelines and standards; ensure clinical practice is evidence based to facilitate positive resident and client outcomes;
- Provide expertise / specialist knowledge in the area of Gerontic nursing and an understanding of professional issues as they relate to aged care;
- Support services to understand and embed in practice policy and procedure in the arena of clinical practice.

**What you can bring to the team**

This role would be ideal for an experienced Grade 5 Level Registered Nurse with several years aged care experience or an experienced Care Manager who is looking for a new challenge. Committed to continuous improvement, you look forward to the changing opportunities this diverse role offers. You are often recognised for your highly developed problem-solving, decision-making and negotiation skills.

As the Clinical Support Consultant, ideally your experience and qualifications include:

- Current AHPRA registration as a Registered Nurse;
- Minimum three years' working as a Registered Nurse with Senior Clinical Care responsibilities in Aged Care;
- Applied knowledge of residential aged care and home care accreditation standards with a demonstrated record of achieving and maintaining full compliance across a number of services;
- Demonstrated knowledge of ANACC;
- Experience in educating, mentoring and motivating staff;
- Superior communication skills both written and verbal;
- Undergo a National Personal Insolvency Check;
- National Police Certificate or the ability to acquire.

Importantly, you will be someone who closely aligns with our organisational values of: Unconditional Love, Continual Innovation, Mutual Trust, Wise Stewardship and Safety.
- Under Churches of Christ policy and/or the applicable public health directions, team members are required to be vaccinated for Covid-19. As part of the recruitment processes we ask that you provide evidence that your vaccination meets the requirements of Churches of Christ policy or the applicable public health direction._

**To apply**

**Applications will be assessed as received