Ready to advance your career while embracing an outback lifestyle that offers the perfect work-life balance? Adventure is calling, come and join our team today!

The PHC Director of Nursing is responsible for:

• Incorporating all aspects of nursing care in the rural setting while demonstrating the foundational elements of the Central West Professional Practice Model Nurses and Midwives.

• Clinical coordination of clinical care of the community, including acute and chronic illness.

• Advocating for the community's health care needs by active consultation to ensure service provision meets the community needs.

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Patient Centred Care

for our Central West communities

Job details

People-centred care | Quality and safety | Integrity and accountability | Investment in staff | Innovation and change

What's involved – The Director of Nursing (DON), is a Registered Nurse who can demonstrate advanced knowledge of contemporary nursing practice and theory.

Location: Bedourie, Birdsville, Boulia, Isisford, Jundah, Muttaburra, Aramac, Tambo & Windorah. This process will be used to fill vacancies at all Primary Health Centre's within Central West HHS.

To be successful candidates will be a Registered Nurse who demonstrates:

• Competence in the provision of nursing care as specified by registration requirements, NMBA standards and codes, educational preparation, relevant legislation and context of care.
• Clinical expertise and proven operational management for remote area facility.
• Capacity to deliver health services across geographically diverse environments and population groups.
• Personal resilience to operate professionally and to work collaboratively with internal and external staff and stakeholders.
• Provision of expert clinical care.

You could receive up to $70,000 in incentive payments with our Workforce attraction incentive scheme https://www.careers.health.qld.gov.au/working-for-us/workforce-attraction-incentive-scheme  - Note; for eligible health workers only.

We prioritise staff development and opportunities to experience new roles. Applicants are advised this is a continuous applicant pool aiming to provide a proactive approach to filling positions. Applications in this pool will be considered as vacancies arise until 31 December 2024.

As a Central West Health employee, you will be well remunerated. Your benefits include generous employer superannuation contribution up to 12.75%; salary packaging to increase your take home pay; 17.5% annual leave loading; career development opportunities; housing or rental assistance.

Living in Central West Queensland is ideal for those who enjoy being part of a close-knit, safe, friendly and inclusive community. The outback offers a quiet, relaxed and safe lifestyle and is the perfect location to relax, unwind and enjoy life's simple pleasures. Schools in the west provide more one on one learning with students and there are various work opportunities for partners of healthcare workers with local businesses, property owners and other local and state government agencies. For more insight visit FarOut! (gofarout.com.au)

It is a condition of employment for this role for the employee to be, and remain, vaccinated against measles, mumps, rubella, varicella, hepatitis B, pertussis and influenza during their employment.

About Central West Hospital and Health Service - We are responsible for the delivery of healthcare services to communities across a vast region to 20.6 per cent of Queensland. As a rural and remote hospital and health service, Central West HHS provides a range of community, primary and hospital-based services and has formed strong partnerships with other service providers to collectively support the holistic care to the people of the Central West.

Applications should be submitted ONLINE. Include a completed vaccine preventable disease form and evidence of immunity and vaccinations and relevant qualifications with your application. For additional information regarding the responsibilities, mandatory qualifications and/or other requirements for this position please refer to the role description.

Further information

We are committed to building inclusive cultures in the Queensland public sector that respect and promote human rights and diversity.

It is recommended that you download the Role Description for future reference. If you have difficulty viewing the role description, contact Central West Recruitment (07) 4650 4017. Microsoft Word or PDF files are supported. Files – max: 2MB each.

Documents

Before applying for this vacancy please ensure you read the documents below.

• Vaccination_tb-risk-assess-questionnaire-workers-hhs (PDF, 177KB)
  Application Kit
  
  Vaccination_Vaccine Preventable Diseases Forms (PDF, 328KB)
  Application Kit
  
  QH Applicant Information Kit (PDF, 917KB)
  Information Package for Applicants
  
  RD_PHC DON_CW4F569919 (PDF, 980KB)
  Role Description