Experience everything Cairns has to offer while working as a Clinical Nurse Consultant (Contact Tracing Officer) with Cairns Sexual Health. In your new role you will be accountable at an advanced practice level for surveillance, prevention and control of communicable disease.

Job details

About us: 

The Cairns and Hinterland Hospital and Health Service covers a large geographic area with a diverse and growing population. The Health Service provides a wide range of primary care, acute and specialist services.

Our staff are a part of the community we serve, and we strongly believe that health outcomes are enhanced by involving our community in the planning and evaluation of local health services.

About your opportunity: 

The Public Health Nurse (Contact Tracing Support Officer) is a Registered Nurse who is accountable at an advanced practice level to promote, encourage, educate, and support clinicians and other health professionals to conduct contact tracing for persons diagnosed with sexually transmissible infections (STIs) and HIV if required, across two Hospital and Health Services (HHS) – Torres and Cape HHS and Cairns and Hinterland Hospital Health Service.

About your role:

• Provide expert advice and support to clinicians regarding contact tracing and partner notification, management and ongoing care and management of people who place others at risk of HIV.
• Support General Practitioners and Practice Nurses and other clinicians including, sexual health medical and nursing staff, Indigenous Health Workers and other health professionals across HHSs to conduct contact tracing for patients diagnosed with STIs (Syphilis, gonorrhoea, chlamydia and HIV as required).
• Monitor STI epidemiological data to plan, develop, implement, evaluate strategies and programs designed to improve the level and effectiveness of contact tracing and put systems in place for rapid responses to notifications.
• Work in close collaboration with the Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services, Queensland Syphilis Surveillance Service, other Contact Tracing Support Officers, Public Health Teams, Communicable Diseases Branch and sexual health and HIV service providers to address public health and epidemiology issues.

As a Cairns and Hinterland Hospital and Health Service employee, not only will you receive competitive remuneration, you will also have access to:

• Generous superannuation
• Salary packaging
• Annual incremental increases
• Career training and development
• Flexible work arrangements
• Wellness programs

Vaccine Preventable Diseases (VPD) evidence as required for your employment in accordance with legislation/government policy and Directives.

For more information about this role, please refer to the attached Role Description.

Why choose Cairns?

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You can find out more about why it's so great to work at Cairns and Hinterland here: https://www.health.qld.gov.au/cairns_hinterland

Further information

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

Applicants are to apply online. If the information requested in the ‘how to apply’ section is not provided, you may not meet the requirements for further consideration of your application.

Documents

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

• 1. CHHHS Information for Applicants v.20 (PDF, 939KB)
  Information Package for Applicants
  
  Documentation preparation guide (PDF, 229KB)
  Information Package for Applicants
  
  CAH631467 Role Description (PDF, 549KB)
  Role Description