Become a part of an exciting opportunity as Clinical Nurse Consultant (Clinical Coordinator) with Older Persons Sub Acute and Rehabilitation Service, Integrated Medicine, Emergency, Child and Youth Services. You will apply advanced level clinical leadership and expertise to develop, implement and deliver an innovative and integrated approach to acute and community care for the older person. The Clinical Nurse Consultant will provide professional and clinical leadership across all streams of the service with clinical time to be primarily attributed to the acute stream of the Older Persons Integrated Health Service.

Job details

About us: We're committed to improving the health and wellbeing of people in Far North Queensland by providing high quality acute health care services.

About your role:

• Provides clinical decision making and advice via telephone triage to RACF (Residential Aged Care Facility) clinicians, supported by the Emergency Physician and/or Geriatrician:
• Expert acute / emergency gerontic clinical assessment and care planning skills and use of advanced knowledge of contemporary treatments and outcomes, to facilitate linkage to the most appropriate service to fulfil the resident's acute care need.
• Communicates closely with staff from hospitals, RACFs, GPs, residents, and community groups at the level of expert clinician to facilitate a right care, right place approach.

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
  
  CAH643001 Role Description 1 (PDF, 546KB)
  Role Description