Clinical Educator

Location: Melbourne | Northern Metropolitan

Job type: Not provided

Organisation: The Royal Women's Hospital

**Salary**: Salary not specified

Occupation: Nursing

Reference: 24847

**Clinical Educator - NICU (Grade 5)**
**Ongoing - 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.

**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 pre-registration, graduate, Transition to Specialty Practice (TSP) and specialty post-graduate programs. The Clinical Education Program has a core role in the design and delivery of innovative nursing and midwifery workforce programs. The Clinical Education Program further collaborates with other health professional groups to promote best practice clinical learning environments (BPCLE) across the organization

**Newborn Intensive and Special Care (NICU)**

The Women's Newborn Intensive Care Unit (NICU) is one of five tertiary level units in Melbourne who together with Monash Medical Centre (MMC), Mercy Women's Hospital (MWH), Joan Kirner (JK) and Royal Children's Hospital (RCH) care for the most critically unwell babies across Victoria. The Women's provides specialist care to approximately 1600 premature and medically unwell babies per year with over 695 of those cared for in intensive care. The unit has a key role in providing education and training for local, national and international health professionals and is also a leading international contributor to neonatal research, with a strong focus on translating research findings into clinical practice. The unit has been designed with both intensive and special care nursery pods and has a total of 62 cots. The NICU model of care is built on keeping mothers and babies together and is underpinned by several principles which were developed to improve consistency and continuity of care and to strengthen and support the engagement of families as essential members of the care team.

**Your contribution**

The Clinical Educator (NICU) is a pivotal learning and education leadership position. This position has direct leadership of the Clinical Support Nurse (CSN) and Grade 4 Educator NICU team. The position is responsible for the development and delivery of a program of neonatal professional development for midwifery/nursing staff across the organisation (with a focus on NICU services) that promotes family centred care and meets strategic unit and organisational needs.

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

- Deliver and support an employed post graduate NICU student program
- Deliver and support The Women's Early Career programs in NICU
- Role model exceptional clinical care in the NICU
- Develop and deliver programs that bring mothers and babies together

**About you**

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

- Registered Nurse with recent and extensive experience in NICU
- Post graduate certificate/diploma/masters in Neonatal Intensive Care (NICU)
- Previous experience in a leadership and/or a senior education role (At minimum of Grade 4 level)

**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