• Posi­tion Num­ber: 00614458
• Divi­sion: WACHS — Kimberley
• Loca­tion (1 Sub­urb Only): Broome
• Work Type: Full Time
• Salary : RN SRN Lev­el 3 $125,260 p.a.
• URL or Email for appli­ca­tions: https://​search​.jobs​.wa​.gov​.au/…
• Clos­ing Date: 13 Sep­tem­ber 2024
  

• Great ben­e­fits includ­ing loca­tion allowance, annu­al trav­el allowance and an addi­tion­al week of annu­al leave for eli­gi­ble applicants
  
• Gen­er­ous Salary Pack­ag­ing Benefits
• The Coun­try Nurs­ing & Mid­wifery Incen­tive Program
• As a WA Coun­try Health Ser­vice employ­ee, you’re enti­tled to dis­counts across some pri­vate health care funds. Please see attached fly­er for fur­ther details. 

To be suc­cess­ful, you will have…

• Eli­gi­bil­i­ty for reg­is­tra­tion in the cat­e­go­ry of Reg­is­tered Nurse by the Nurs­ing and Mid­wifery Board of Australia.
• Demon­strat­ed expe­ri­ence in work­ing effec­tive­ly and har­mo­nious­ly with­in a mul­ti­dis­ci­pli­nary health care team and independently.
• Demon­strat­ed lead­er­ship expe­ri­ence and clinical/​professional knowl­edge in the pro­vi­sion of breast can­cer nurs­ing care.
• Demon­strat­ed high lev­el inter­per­son­al and com­mu­ni­ca­tion (writ­ten and ver­bal) skills.
• Demon­strat­ed well-devel­oped ana­lyt­i­cal and prob­lem solv­ing skills.
• Demon­strat­ed high lev­el of organ­i­sa­tion­al and time man­age­ment skills.
• Exten­sive knowl­edge and appli­ca­tion of qual­i­ty improve­ment, research and best prac­tice principles.
• Pos­ses­sion of a cur­rent WA C Class dri­vers licence or equivalent.

Posi­tion Profile:

Pro­vides lead­er­ship, oper­a­tional man­age­ment and nurs­ing con­sul­tan­cy for the pal­lia­tive care ser­vice with the region

Key respon­si­bil­i­ties include:

• Act as a Breast Can­cer resource per­son for staff and patients and their sig­nif­i­cant oth­ers through­out the region.
• Pro­vides clin­i­cal breast can­cer nurs­ing knowl­edge and case man­age­ment with­in the WACHS region.
• Demon­strates lead­er­ship and role modelling.
• Pro­motes main­te­nance of clin­i­cal stan­dard set­ting and mon­i­tor­ing, pol­i­cy devel­op­ment and change man­age­ment as required to improve the breast can­cer patient’s management.

What we offer

In addi­tion to the great salary, eli­gi­ble employ­ees enjoy an amaz­ing range of benefits:

• Loca­tion based allowances including:
  • addi­tion­al North West paid leave
  • Dis­trict Allowance — region­al specific
  • Annu­al trav­el sub­sidy (ALTC)
  • Air-con­di­tion­ing sub­sidy allowance.
• Heav­i­ly sub­sidised hous­ing Gov­ern­ment Region­al Offi­cer Housing
• Paid study Leave assis­tance – region­al spe­cif­ic as per EBA
• Gen­er­ous salary pack­ag­ing benefits:
  • Up to $9010 on a range of ben­e­fits such as mort­gage, your rent or oth­er every­day liv­ing expenses
  • Up to $2650 on meal enter­tain­ment, hol­i­day accom­mo­da­tion and venue hire
  • Access to novat­ed leas­ing to use pre-tax dol­lars for a car and expenses
• Plus, Addi­tion­al Remote Area Spe­cif­ic Benefits.
• Flex­i­ble work­ing and leave arrangements 
• Pro­fes­sion­al Devel­op­ment opportunities 
• Con­tin­u­ous learn­ing opportunities
• 11.5% Super­an­nu­a­tion Guarantee
• WACHS sup­ports flex­i­ble work­ing prac­tices and con­sid­er­a­tion will be giv­en to flex­i­ble work/​roster options, where oper­a­tional­ly appropriate. 

The Coun­try Nurs­ing & Mid­wifery incen­tive pro­gram is avail­able to new and exist­ing nurs­es and mid­wives — across a broad range of patient-fac­ing roles — on fixed term or per­ma­nent con­tracts at 76 select loca­tions. Eli­gi­ble nurs­es and mid­wives can receive between $5,000 and $17,000 in sup­port over 12 months (WA Coun­try Health Ser­vice — Coun­try Nurs­ing and Mid­wifery Incen­tive Program).

Area Pro­file

WACHS Kim­ber­ley is the most north­ern health region of WACHS. The Kim­ber­ley region has approx­i­mate­ly 200 Abo­rig­i­nal com­mu­ni­ties, over 34 dif­fer­ent Abo­rig­i­nal lan­guage groups and 45 per­cent of the pop­u­la­tion are Abo­rig­i­nal and/​or Tor­res Strait Islander peo­ple. WACHS Kim­ber­ley con­sists of six hos­pi­tals, an inpa­tient men­tal health unit, three Com­mu­ni­ty Direc­torates and a Cor­po­rate Office. WACHS Kim­ber­ley pro­vides hos­pi­tal, com­mu­ni­ty health, pub­lic health, remote area health, com­mu­ni­ty aged care, and men­tal health ser­vices across the region through a ded­i­cat­ed team of med­ical, nurs­ing, Abo­rig­i­nal health, allied health, and sup­port staff.

Want to know more about this role?

We encour­age you to con­tact Deirdre Mur­phy 0427 127 715

Eli­gi­bil­i­ty to Apply: Aus­tralian cit­i­zen­ship or per­ma­nent res­i­den­cy is an essen­tial require­ment for appli­cants to be con­sid­ered for per­ma­nent posi­tions in the pub­lic sector.

How to Apply: Appli­cants are request­ed to apply online http://​www​.jobs​.health​.wa​.gov.…;