Rn3 Cafhs Nurse Consultant

**SA Health**
**Job reference**: 899773
**Location**: 5010 - ANGLE PARK
**Job status**: Ongoing
**Eligibility**: Open to Everyone
- **Women's and Children's Health Network, Child and Family Health Service (CaFHS), Angle Park (5010)**:

- **Classification - RN/M3 - Registered Nurse/Midwife LV 3 - $125,183 to $130,779 + Superannuation and Salary Sacrifice Benefits.**:

- **Employment Full time - Ongoing Permanent**

**About the Opportunity**:
The Child and Family Health Service (CaFHS) is responsible for developing and implementing effective strategies to improve early childhood health, development and wellbeing outcomes for children, predominantly up to school age, and their families in South Australia. This is achieved by the promotion of positive parenting and provision of universal and targeted programs.

We currently have an exciting opportunity to join the **CaFHS** team as a** Nurse Consultant,**where you will be responsible for:

- Integrate contemporary information and evidence with personal experience to support the decision making, innovative thinking and objective analysis that is expected at this level e.g. expert clinical knowledge underpins and informs the ability to support, lead and/or provide expert clinical care to improve and optimise care.
- Provide direct, expert clinical nursing care, select and demonstrate assessment, decision making and therapeutic interventions to a defined population of clients and evaluate progress.
- Fosters a team environment which promotes positivity, learning and development, acknowledges cultural and personal differences, and encourages creativity, innovation and honesty
- Responding to requests for information in relation to children and families in a timely, accurate and professional way.

**About You**

To be successful in this role, you will have:

- 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; or
- Registered or eligible for registration as a Nurse and Midwife by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia and who holds, or who is eligible to hold, a current practicing certificate.
- Registered Nurse with at least 3 years post registration experience.
- Effective leadership skills including highly developed skills in communication, problem solving, conflict resolution and negotiation skills.
- Demonstrated contemporary experience in providing assessment and care to families and children with complex issues including domestic violence, mental health, substance abuse, child abuse, and co-morbidities.
- Demonstrated competence in the relevant area of nursing and or midwifery practice in accordance with the relevant standards.

**What WCHN Can Offer You**
- Salary package a range of benefits (including living expenses such as mortgage, rent, utility bills and groceries) up to $9,010 each FBT year + $2,650 for Meal Entertainment expenses each FBT year.
- Access to Fitness Passport (workplace health and fitness program that gives you and your family access to a wide choice of gyms and pools across South Australia.)
- Access to generous leave provisions and professional development opportunities
- Support for you and your family via our Employee Assistance Program

**About Us**

The **Women's & Children's Health Network** is the state's leading provider of best practice health care for women, babies, children and young people across South Australia. We offer:

- specialist care for children with acute and chronic conditions
- state of the art maternity and obstetric care services
- community based services reaching hundreds of thousands of babies, children and young people, their families and communities across SA
- specialist programs including Mental Health, Child & Family Health services, Youth and Aboriginal Health services.

Join our patient centred team and contribute to providing South Australia's women, babies, children and young people with the best health care through both within our hospital or via our many and varied community services and programs.

Our values of Compassion, Respect, Equity, Accountability and working Together for Excellence or CREATE Together represent who we are as a Network.

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**Special Conditions**

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