Registered Nurse - Community (532677)
Registered Nurse Community – Permanent Full Time or Part Time Positions
Tasmanian Health Service – Rosebery Community Health Centre
To be Tasmanian is to value quality over quantity. We create, preserve, and protect the unusual. With quiet confidence, with passion and perseverance, we pursue the extraordinary.
What’s different about Tasmania is our culture and our lifestyle, our connection to our colleagues and patients, and the community encourages success. Our remoteness helps drive a culture of invention and human connection, which feels both old fashioned and… like the only future worth pursuing. Here you’ll be spoilt for choice when it comes to breath-taking coastlines, National Parks and award-winning fresh produce – all right on your doorstep. After a hard day at work, you don’t have to sit in a car for an hour. You can wander along the river or put on your boots and tell it to a mountain.
Our Rosebery Community Health Centre is a place where people from across caring professions come together to serve our community members of the West Coast.
Community Health Nursing West Coast provides comprehensive, person-centred nursing care across the remote and rural communities of Rosebery, Queenstown, Zeehan and Strahan. The team delivers a broad range of community-based services, including chronic disease management, wound care, continence support, health assessment, health promotion, palliative and supportive care, and care coordination to help people remain healthy and independent in their own homes and communities.
The team prides itself on its strong multidisciplinary partnerships with local general practitioners, hospitals, allied health professionals, aged care providers and other health and community services that support the region. Staff benefit from a diverse and rewarding scope of practice, combining hands-on clinical nursing care with holistic primary health care across the lifespan. The role offers opportunities to develop advanced skills in wound management, chronic disease care, continence support, comprehensive health assessment and palliative care, while making a meaningful difference in the lives of people living across rural and remote communities.
In Tasmania, we are small enough for you to shape and influence your work and make a real difference every day. Yet big enough for you to feel part of something important, somewhere you can belong and be surrounded by diversity, innovation, and friendships. We’ll look after you from the very beginning, ensure you are fully inducted and welcomed into our team and culture. We’ll invest in your growth, with time, resources, and expert colleagues available to help foster your development.
Operating within a Primary Health Framework our team deliver nursing and home care services to clients across the West Coast region both in home and in the clinic environments. All services are coordinated from Rosebery Community Health Centre with staff travelling to all West Coast towns for provision of care. Our team consists of a Clinical Nurse Consultant, RN’s, EN’s, a Home Care Coordinator, Administrative Staff, Home Help/Personal Carers and Home Maintenance staff with management oversight provided by a Nurse Unit Manager, Team Leader for Hotel Services and a Director of Nursing of whom also oversee the neighbouring West Coast District Hospital in Queenstown.
Service delivery models include:
- General Community Nursing
- Home Care Services
- Allied Health Clinics
- Emergency First Response Unit
Nursing care provided includes but is not limited to:
- Chronic and complex wound care including Negative Pressure Wound Therapy
- Management of venous access devices (PIVC & CVAD)
- Indwelling and suprapubic catheter management
- End of life palliative care including syringe driver management
- Post-acute care following discharge from hospital
- Medication management including support of medication administration via various routes and devices.
- Chronic Disease Management
- Preventative Health
You will need
* Aged Care Conviction Check
* Drivers Licence
* AHPRA
Note: - Please refer to the Statement of Duties for all the selection criteria of this position to address in your application.
Details of appointment:
- Permanent full time, day worker/ shift worker position, working up to 76 hours per fortnight, commencing as soon as you can join us. *notwithstanding hours to be negotiated with the successful applicant.
Applicants should note that, for a period of twelve months from the date of publication, this selection process may be used to fill subsequent or similar full time, part time, and casual vacancies.
Salary:
$80,524 to $109,175 per annum (Pro rata). Our Employer 12% superannuation contribution is on top of this amount.
- Salary range is in accordance with Nurses and Midwives (Tasmania State Service) Agreement 2023.
Access to the Grade 4 salary range $102,439- $109,175 is subject to successful application for progression to Grade 4
In addition, the following allowances calculated on the salaried incremental point may be available:
- Post Graduate Allowance of up to 10% based on qualification type
Salary Packaging:
You’ll have access to salary package a range of benefits including living expenses up to $9,010 + $2,650 in meal entertainment each FBT year + other benefits if eligible.
Regional Allowances
- Remote Professional Development Allowance of $4,062 per annum and an additional salary allowance of 10%
Benefits available to eligible candidates:
- Travel and relocation assistance support available up to $15,000 for eligible appointees from overseas, and up to $10,000 for appointees from interstate.
- Professional development and accelerated pathways.
- A range of leave entitlements, including study leave and Professional Development Support.
- Fitness Passport – You, and your family can access 40+ fitness facilities across Tasmania for just $14.50 per week per person, or $28.05 for a family.
- Department of Health has achieved the “Carer Accredited Employer Status” providing support to employees with caring responsibilities. (Find out more under the Carer Recognition Act 2023).
More information about our Employee Benefits can be found here
Eligibility:
Successful applicants will be required to meet the essential criteria
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Registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia as a Registered Nurse
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Current Driver’s Licence
Note: - Please refer to the Application Guide for more information of pre-employment check.
Download the Statement of Duties and any Associated Documents
We encourage you to review the Statement of Duties, Applicant Guide, prior to applying for an overview of the duties, program, selection process and application guidance.
Statement of Duties:
Application Guide:
How to apply:
Apply Online. Please click the "Apply" button on this screen to ensure that important questions about you are answered.
You will be prompted to complete a 1-2 page application detailing your experience, skills and knowledge as they relate to the attached Statement of Duties. A separate statement addressing the selection criteria in the Statement of Duties is not required.
*only Recruitment Agencies specifically contracted are invited to provide applicants to this role
For more information:
Applicants who require further information are encouraged to contact the Contact person for detailed information about the vacancy.
Name: Cindy de Bruyn
Position: Clinical Nurse Consultant
Phone number: (03) 6495 1580
Email address: rchc.reception@ths.tas.gov.au
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Department of Health has achieved the “Carer Accredited Employer Status” providing support to employees with caring responsibilities. (Find out more under the Carer Recognition Act 2023).
Respecting diversity is the foundation of everything that Department of Health do. This allows us to instil trust and collaborate through honest and fair communication and helps cultivate an environment of growth and innovation. We strongly encourage applicants from key communities including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, LGBTIQA+ people, and people living with disabilities.