Clinical Educator

Location: Melbourne | Northern Metropolitan

Job type: Part time

Organisation: Austin Health

**Salary**: Salary not specified

Occupation: Education and Training, Medical, Nursing

Reference: 50591
- Austin Health
- Clinical Nurse Educator - RN35 QRED3 (Grade 4B)
- Permanent Part Time: 16 hours a week
- Access and Demand Division: Hospital in the Home (HITH) & Specialist Clinics

Austin Health is one of Victoria’s largest health care providers. Comprising the Austin Hospital, Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital, Royal Talbot Rehabilitation Centre, Olivia Newton John Cancer, Wellness and Research Centre and a multitude of community based health services. Austin Health is an internationally recognised leader in clinical teaching, training and research, with numerous university and research institute affiliations.

Austin Health offers upward of nine hundred beds and employs near nine thousand staff across all of its sites to deliver a full range of leading-edge clinical services, including several state-wide services (liver transplant, spinal cord service, respiratory support service and child inpatient mental health service).

An exciting opportunity currently exists for an enthusiastic Clinical Nurse Educator to join our Clinical Nursing Education Department (CNED), providing educational support to all staff working across HITH and Specialist Clinics, at both the Austin and Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital.

The Hospital in the Home program facilitates the shift of traditional acute care to the patient’s own home without compromising patient care. This care may take place via in-home nursing and support services, via video telehealth or via admission to the Hospital in the Home - Virtual ward, where higher acuity care can be provided in part through the utilisation of wearable technology. Within this dynamic field staff are highly skilled to perform a range of various treatments and procedures to best care for patients outside of the hospital environment.

Specialist Clinics at Austin provides planned non-admitted services that require the focus of an acute hospital services/ specialists to ensure the best outcome for a patient. These services are an important interface in the health system between tertiary hospital services and primary care services.
Specialist Clinics currently provides over 317,000 attendances per annum, making it one of the largest services in the state and largest services providers at Austin, across various campuses. The clinics provide access to:
Medical, Nursing and Allied Health professionals for assessment, diagnosis and treatment

Ongoing specialist management of chronic and complex conditions in collaboration with community providers pre-and post-hospital care, related diagnostic services such as pathology and imaging, teaching, training and research opportunities.

Specialist Clinics is on a journey of innovation, most recently implementing digital reform and continuous improvement projects aimed at improving efficiency across all areas of the business to enhance patient communications and experience.

To be successful in this role you must demonstrate a high level of clinical leadership and engagement of staff, have significant clinical experience and be able to work within a high functioning environment.

Austin Health acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the lands we work on and pay our respects to Elders past and present.

Work with us Your reward is to work in a collaborative environment which will provide you with opportunities for ongoing training and development. Your benefits will include salary packaging, and employee assistance program.