• Pri­ma­ry and Pub­lic Health Care

• Nurse 4, Remu­ner­a­tion Pack­age Range $127,689 — $137,065

• Ongo­ing vacan­cy in Alice Springs 

If you want your career to go places then join Depart­ment of Health in the North­ern Territory. The chal­lenges and oppor­tu­ni­ties in health and com­mu­ni­ty care in the Ter­ri­to­ry are like no oth­er in Aus­tralia, from remote Abo­rig­i­nal health to trop­i­cal health and urban ter­tiary care. Con­tin­ued invest­ments in Abo­rig­i­nal health, remote health, acute care and com­mu­ni­ty ser­vices offer many oppor­tu­ni­ties for health pro­fes­sion­als who want to be part of mak­ing a difference.

Cen­tral Aus­tralian Region

Nurse 4, Remu­ner­a­tion Pack­age Range $127,689 — $137,065

(Com­pris­ing salary $109,921 — $118,093, super­an­nu­a­tion, leave load­ing and the val­ue of 2 weeks extra recre­ation leave). In In addi­tion to above Pack­age Range; pro­fes­sion­al devel­op­ment allowances and salary sac­ri­fice pro­vi­sions apply.

Relo­ca­tion assis­tance may also be negotiated. 

Pri­ma­ry and Pub­lic Health Care Cen­tral Australia 

Ongo­ing vacan­cy in Alice Springs 

The chal­lenge of these posi­tions is to pro­vide clin­i­cal care in sev­er­al com­mu­ni­ties focussing on growth and devel­op­ment assess­ments, child­hood immu­ni­sa­tion sched­ules of chil­dren under 5 togeth­er and iden­ti­fy chil­dren and fam­i­lies requir­ing more sup­port direct­ly or through refer­ral. The suc­cess­ful appli­cant must have expe­ri­ence dri­ving a man­u­al vehi­cle with eli­gi­bil­i­ty to obtain an NT Driver’s licence and be will­ing and able to trav­el to remote areas on a reg­u­lar basis by road, light plane and to stay for up to a week as required.

You will be a reg­is­tered nurse hold­ing a cur­rent cer­tifi­cate of reg­is­tra­tion with the Nurs­ing and Mid­wifery Board of Aus­tralia. Addi­tion­al­ly you will have a post grad­u­ate cer­tifi­cate in Fam­i­ly and Child Health Nurs­ing and a cur­rent Vac­cine Providers Cer­tifi­cate recog­nised by NT Health. You will have an knowl­edge of Prin­ci­ples of Pri­ma­ry Health Care, Social Deter­mi­nants of Health and an under­stand­ing of the issues affect­ing Abo­rig­i­nal Health out­comes. All enquires are welcome.

For fur­ther infor­ma­tion please con­tact Mon­i­ca Ben­nion on 08 8955 6129 or monica.​bennion@​nt.​gov.​au

Quote vacan­cy num­ber: 37878

Vacan­cy clos­ing date: 18/08/2022

APPLI­CA­TION INFORMATION

Appli­cants should address the selec­tion cri­te­ria and pro­vide a cur­rent CV and con­tact details for 2 ref­er­ees (prefer­ably an email address). For a copy of the Job Descrip­tion and to apply online please vis­ithttps://​jobs​.nt​.gov​.au/​H​o​m​e​/​J​o​b​D​e​t​a​i​l​s​?​r​t​f​I​d​=​2​45790

Infor­ma­tion on the North­ern Ter­ri­to­ry and its great lifestyle is avail­able at www​.aus​tralias​north​ern​ter​ri​to​ry​.com​.au

Note: The pre­ferred or rec­om­mend­ed appli­cant will be required to hold a cur­rent Work­ing with Chil­dren Clear­ance notice / Ochre Card (appli­ca­tion forms avail­able from SAFE NT @ https://​forms​.pfes​.nt​.gov​.au/​s​afent) and under­go a crim­i­nal his­to­ry check. A crim­i­nal his­to­ry will not exclude an appli­cant from this posi­tion unless it is a rel­e­vant crim­i­nal history.

NTPS employ­ees sub­ject to CHO Direc­tions No. 41 of 2022 requires work­ers in high risk places to have received their third dose (boost­er) by 11 March 2022 and CHO Direc­tions 52/2022 now requires remain­ing employ­ees to have received their third dose (boost­er) by 22 April 2022 (except where a med­ical exemp­tion is granted). 

Depart­ment of Health is a Smoke Free Workplace