Clinical Nurse Consultant

**Title**:Clinical Nurse Consultant - Acute Pain Service

**Location**:Eastern Health, VIC, AU, 3128**Job Posting Date**:23 Aug 2024Do you work for Eastern Health currently? If so, please log in to Eastern Health Careers Employee Login using your network login details to see the full range of jobs available to you

**Clinical Nurse Consultant - Acute Pain Service**
- Permanent Part Time
- Maroondah Hospital
- Department of Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine

**Eastern Health**
- Eastern Health is one of Melbourne’s largest public health services. We provide a range of emergency, surgical, medical and general healthcare services and have a proud history of serving a diverse community.
Our Healthier Together promise underpins our strategic plan - which is to serve the growing and changing needs of our community and to care about and develop our staff. We believe our people make the difference.**About the role**
Acute pain nurses work under the Department of Anaesthesia, and paly a vital role in the clinical services offered by the department. In addition to the clinical role of management of acute pain services and providing advice to other clinical departments on pain management, acute pain nurses play a vital role in staff education, policy and guidelines review, multidisciplinary teams and pain research. Acute pain nurses at Maroondah are supported by our experienced anaesthetists and our anaesthetic trainees, with input from other departments including pharmacy, palliative care and addiction medicine. In addition, the Anaesthetic Department is supportive of ongoing professional development in this role; and will offer the opportunity to occasionally perform APS rounds at Box Hill Hospital in lieu of Maroondah Hospital by prior arrangement with the Anaesthetic Director at Maroondah Hospital and the APS lead at Box Hill Hospital.**About you**
To be successful in this role you will possess:
- Demonstrated experience in acute pain management and/or related disciplines
- Current registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australian (NMBA) via AHPRA
- Post Registration or Post Graduate qualification or further study in Pain Management (this is essential for CNC role, can be employed as a CNS whilst working towards this).
- Highly developed interpersonal and leadership experience
- A strong commitment to high quality care
- The ability to work as part of a diverse team
- Excellent communication and organisational skills

Vaccination against infectious disease is a mandatory requirement of this role. An offer of employment is conditional on you providing evidence that you are currently vaccinated against COVID-19 with booster & Influenza, prior to commencing employment.**What we offer**
- Eastern Health offers a variety of fantastic Employee Benefits, view the extensive range here- Diverse and engaging career opportunities
- Friendly & supportive team
- Flexible working hours
- Salary packaging options
- Career progression in our teaching hospitals

**Next Steps**- **Good to know**:

- We are an equal opportunity employer and actively promote equality for people of all races, ethnicities, gender identities, sexual orientations, and for people living with disability - within the communities we serve and our Eastern Health team.
- We provide a culturally safe and welcoming environment for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander employees.
- As a child-safe organisation, we ensure child safety and wellbeing is embedded in our everyday culture.
- Vaccination and screening for immunity to vaccine-preventable disease is a mandatory requirement of this role.
- Advertising may end before the closing date.
- Contact Person: Dr Basel El-Behesy- Contact Number: 03 9871 3448-
- Job Posting End Date: 09/09/2024- Just contact the Hiring Manager in the advertisement or call the Talent Acquisition Team on (03) 9955 7555 (Option 1)**Our Values in Action**:

- Respect for all | Safe always | Partnering in care | Learning and improving every day