Care Coordinator

**Employment Type**: Permanent Full Time
**Position Classification**: Clinical Nurse Specialist Grade 2 or Transitional Clinical Nurse Specialist
**Location**:Site Negotiable within SNSWLHD - Goulburn, Cooma or Queanbeyan
**Remuneration**:
**Clinical Nurse Specialist Grade 2**: $109945.46 - $113556.22 per annum**Registered Nurse**: $70049.73 - $98351.38 per annum
**Hours Per Week**: 38
- **Requisition ID**: REQ525726
**Applications Close**: 21 October 2024
**Interview Information**: Scheduled within 10 days of closing.

**This position qualifies for the NSW Health Rural Incentive scheme with a value of up to $5000**

At Southern NSW Local Health District we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, where we don’t just accept differences but we honour and support it. Committed to providing a working environment that thrives and values diversity, we encourage people of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander background, people with a disability and people from the LGBTQI+ community to apply.

**What we offer**
- Salary Packaging - up to $9k for living expenses + $2.6k meal & entertainment + Novated leasing
- Corporate Health and Fitness program
- 11% Superannuation on top of your gross income
- Annual Leave Loading

**Where you'll be working**
Southern NSW Local Health District covers a large area of the southern half of NSW. Surrounding the ACT on three sides and all the way down to the Victorian border, it extends from the pristine beaches of the NSW South Coast, the farmlands of the Southern Tablelands, across the picturesque Great Dividing Range and the spectacular Snowy Mountains. We have 18 facilities and our hospitals take care of more than 200,000 people. As we are a major local employer, our staff are a part of our local communities. To find out more on what it is like to live and work in Southern NSW LHD click here: We Are Southern

**What you'll be doing**
The Care Coordinator, Palliative Care is a supportive clinical role, considered a key member of the clinical teams. The Care Coordinator will have appropriate clinical skills and training to promote seamlessness in the patient journey from referral to discharge. The role will work collaboratively with the patient and family, palliative care teams, GPs, community nursing teams and other care providers and act as a central point of contact.

The role provides clinical leadership, support and supervision for less experienced clinicians to achieve people focused quality care.

**Selection Criteria**
- Current Registration with the Australian Health Practitioners Regulation Agency (AHPRA) as a Registered Nurse and relevant post-registration qualifications in Palliative Care with a minimum of three years' experience working in the clinical speciality or enrolment in or commitment to enrol in a postgraduate course in Palliative Care Nursing within the next 12 months with demonstrated experience working in the clinical specialty.
- Demonstrated competencies in and knowledge of the complexities and challenges involved in providing speciality nursing care in the context of a multidisciplinary team.
- Demonstrate ability to exercise extended autonomy in clinical decision making capabilities and leadership in the development of nursing specialty practice advancement.
- Demonstrated effective clinical communication through the use of information technology, written and verbal means and sound interpersonal skills with the capacity to interact with others in a personable and professional manner.
- Demonstrated ability to supervise, delegate, and negotiate with others to deliver quality nursing care with a willingness to show leadership and embrace change in the coordination and delivery of care.
- Evidence of a current unrestricted drivers’ licence and the ability to maintain. Ability and willingness to drive/travel as the role requires. This may involve driving long distances and overnight stays.

**Occupational Assessment, Screening and Vaccination against Specific Diseases**
This is a Category ‘A’ position, please read and understand NSW Health policy directive PD2024_015. All new employees must agree to comply with the requirements outlined in this policy. OASV requirements also include proof of vaccination against influenza and is compulsory for NSW Staff that enter any Residential Aged Care Facility (RACF) or who work in NSW Health owned and operated RACFs.

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