Clinical Educator

Location: Melbourne | Northern Metropolitan

Job type: Not provided

Organisation: Royal Women's Hospital

**Salary**: Salary not specified

Occupation: Nursing

Reference: 24347

Clinical Educator - Perioperative Services

**Fixed Term Position**

**32 hours per week**

The Royal Women’s Hospital is Australia’s first and largest specialist hospital dedicated to improving the health and wellbeing of newborns and women of all ages. To join the Women’s is to be instrumental in forging progress towards health equity for women from ground-breaking research through to the bedside delivery of multi-disciplinary clinical care.

Creating exceptional experiences is at the heart of everything we do for our patients, their families, and our people across our specialised services within maternity, neonatal and women’s health.

**The Clinical Education Program**

The Clinical Education Program supports the hospital to achieve its strategic directions by the provision of frameworks for the professional development of health professionals. The Clinical Education Program supports the growth and maintenance of the future nursing and midwifery workforce through coordination of the nursing and midwifery learner, Graduate and Transition to Specialty Practice (TSP) and specialty Post-Graduate programs.

As a team of professionals, the Clinical Education team are early adopters, self-starters, innovators and change leaders.

**Perioperative Services**

Perioperative Services at the Royal Women’s Hospital is a comprehensive dedicated department incorporating all aspects involved in surgical intervention for patients. The following departments are included: Triage, Surgical Pre admission Clinic, Booking Office, Anaesthetic Department, Acute Pain Services, Operating Theatre and the Day Surgery Unit. The Operating Suite provides surgical services 24 hours per day, seven days a week and consists of five operating theatres including one dedicated emergency theatre, two procedure rooms, and a ten bay PACU. Surgical specialties include obstetrics, gynaecology, urogynaecology, breast, and oncology

**Your contribution**

The Clinical Educator - Perioperative services is a key education leadership role. The Clinical Educator will work with the Clinical Education Program team to create an engaged and reflective learning organisation. The Clinical Educator develops and delivers educational content that builds a competent and engaged perioperative workforce. The Clinical Educator works to support learners to bridge the theory practice gap by coaching and supporting them through hands on clinical learning.

Your duties will include (but are not limited to) the following:

- Developing programs of learning that result in a skilled and competent workforce
- Tilting and innovating workforce programs ‘ on the run’ to meet service and organizational workforce requirements
- Supporting the competency requirements of our nursing and midwifery workforce

**About you**

To be successful within this role you will need to have:

- Recent advanced and extensive current clinical skills in Perioperative Nursing
- Demonstrated ability to create positive learning environments for learners at all levels
- Coordination and organizational skills

**Our offering**

When you join the Women’s you unite with talented people who share your purpose and unwavering determination to advance health outcomes for all women. You will find a workplace that is collaborative, progressive and passionate about learning and working together in multi-disciplinary teams to ensure you find the**_ exceptional _**in your everyday.

We are proudly Breastfeeding Association accredited. The Women’s is committed to gender equity principles and our people have an awareness of and sensitive approach to violence against women/family violence matters.

**Ready to make the move?**

**COVID-19 Vaccination Requirement***

Please be aware that in line with the Health Minister's Covid-19 Mandatory Vaccination Order, all workers at the Women's regardless of role, will be required to be fully vaccinated (3 doses) for COVID-19 or hold an acceptable medical exemption.

**Influenza Vaccination Requirement**

In line with the Health Services Amendment (Mandatory Vaccination of Healthcare Workers) Act 2020, some health care workers are now required to have their flu vaccination to work in health care. Evidence of vaccination is required.

As this role fits into category A or B of the departments risk ratings, applicants will be required to have been vaccinated against influenza. Evidence of vaccination is required.

All applicants will be required to provide acceptable evidence of their vaccination status.