🚑✔👩‍⚕️Are you an experienced Clinical Nurse passionate about healthcare and chronic conditions? This role might be for you!

Participate in innovation and change, apply relevant expertise, developed skills and clinical leadership.

Work with a supportive team and external stakeholders to provide clinical advice and support. Make a positive impact on the prevention and management of chronic conditions within our community!

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Patient Centred Care

for our Central West communities

Job details

People-centred care | Quality and safety | Integrity and accountability | Empowered workforce | Continuous improvement

What's involved – As the Clinical Nurse Consultant (Chronic Conditions) lead, you will have the chance to positively impact on the prevention and management of chronic conditions within our community. By applying your knowledge and expertise while providing leadership to nursing staff, you will ensure the delivery of high-quality, patient-centered care within specific chronic and complex conditions portfolios within the Primary Healthcare Team.

This role offers a unique opportunity to influence behavioural risk factors and enhance chronic disease models of care facilitate clinical improvement initiatives, support collaborative service objectives, and encourage the professional growth of your team.  The principal objective is to reduce the risk of long-term complications, facilitate early discharge from hospital and reduce the risk of hospitalisation for patients with complex chronic disease conditions.

As a member of the Primary Health Team, the role will work collaboratively and more broadly with the team and across Central West Hospital and Health Service (CWHHS) to ensure continued focus on strategic priorities and delivery of operational imperatives.

About Central West Hospital and Health Service - Our diverse and rewarding work environment is as unique and dynamic as Central West Queensland itself.  Our far-reaching health services cover a region of almost 20.6 percent of Queensland, encompasses seven local government areas, and reaches 18 unique and lively communities.

Expansive in the true sense of the word, the region opens new horizons painted in red earth, blue sky and burnt orange sunsets.  It might feel miles away from urban life, but we are just a two-hour flight from Brisbane – well within reach of the city and South East Queensland's beautiful beaches.

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;
• CWH provided housing or rental assistance

The locals will tell you a role with Central West Health is more than a job, and a life in Central West Queensland is as iconic as the region that defines it.  Be prepared to be embraced by warm, welcoming and close-knit communities, and caring for and living among the people you work with to make a difference in their lives and yours, every day.

First impressions count - Slay the application process by:
Submitting your CV with a statement “this is a true and correct representation of my work experience”, signed and dated by yourself.

• Provide a relevant and concise cover letter that address the ‘How you will be assessed' section of the attached role description.
• Complete the VPD paperwork and submit this as part of your application.

For more insight visit: Working in the Central West | Central West Hospital and Health Service (youtube.com)

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

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.

• RD_CNC Chronic Conditions_CW5D634319 (PDF, 358KB)
  Role Description
  
  2025.v1_QH Applicant Information Kit (PDF, 917KB)
  Information Package for Applicants
  
  2025.v1_Vaccine Preventable Disease and TB Forms (PDF, 434KB)
  Application Kit