The role:

• The Enrolled Nurse pro­vides direct patient/​client cen­tred nurs­ing care to assigned patients/​clients, with­in the scope of prac­tice of an enrolled nurse and under the direc­tion and super­vi­sion of a reg­is­tered nurse/​midwife to achieve planned patient outcomes.

Note: — Please refer to the State­ment of Duties for all the selec­tion cri­te­ria of this posi­tion to address in your application.

Flinders Island Mul­ti-Pur­pose Centre:

Flinders Island Mul­ti-Pur­pose Cen­tre is seek­ing Enrolled Nurs­es to join our team. The facil­i­ty com­pris­es of an emergency/​outpatient ser­vice, five acute beds and an excep­tion­al aged care ser­vice with 9 aged care beds pro­vid­ing high, low and respite care. 

Flinders Island is based in the Bass Strait between Vic­to­ria and the north­east coast of Tas­ma­nia, with a pop­u­la­tion of approx­i­mate­ly 900 people. 

If you need any more con­vinc­ing about our beau­ti­ful part of the world, and want to find out more about what it means to be part of our com­mu­ni­ty vis­it: Liv­ing on Flinders — Vis­it Flinders Island

Details of Appointment:

Mul­ti­ple per­ma­nent full time and part time, shift-work­er (ful­ly rota­tion­al) posi­tions work­ing up to 76 hours per fort­night com­menc­ing from 29 Sep­tem­ber 2024. 

*notwith­stand­ing hours may 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 fixed term full time, part time and casu­al vacancies.

Salary: $68,913 — $75,902 per annum. Our Employ­er 11.5% super­an­nu­a­tion con­tri­bu­tion is on top of this amount.

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.

In addi­tion, the fol­low­ing allowances cal­cu­lat­ed on the salaried incre­men­tal point may be available:

Pay­ment of $15,000 staged over three years is avail­able for Nurs­es and Mid­wives who move to Tas­ma­nia from inter­state and remain employed full time for three years or more, on top of relo­ca­tion allowance already available.

In addi­tion, the fol­low­ing allowances cal­cu­lat­ed on the salaried incre­men­tal point may be available: 

• Post Grad­u­ate Allowance of up to 7.5% based on qual­i­fi­ca­tion type
• Dis­trict Allowances of up to $4618 per annum for a family 
• Remote and Rur­al Pro­fes­sion­al Devel­op­ment Allowance of $3,699 per annum and an addi­tion­al salary allowance of 10% 
• Salary range is in accor­dance with Nurs­es and Mid­wives (Tas­man­ian State Ser­vice) Agree­ment 2023 and Nurs­es and Mid­wives (Tas­man­ian State Ser­vice) Inter­im Agree­ment 2013

Eli­gi­bil­i­ty:

Suc­cess­ful appli­cants will be required to meet the essen­tial criteria:

1. Reg­is­tered with the Nurs­ing and Mid­wifery Board of Aus­tralia as an Enrolled Nurse (holds a Board-approved qual­i­fi­ca­tion in admin­is­tra­tion of med­i­cines)*Registration/​licences that are essen­tial require­ments of this role must remain cur­rent and valid at all times whilst employed in this role and the sta­tus of these may be checked at any time dur­ing employ­ment. It is the employee’s respon­si­bil­i­ty to ensure that registration/​licences remain cur­rent and to advise the Employ­er if their cir­cum­stances change. This includes noti­fy­ing the Employ­er if a registration/​licence is revoked, can­celled or has its con­di­tions altered.

The Head of the State Ser­vice has deter­mined that the per­son nom­i­nat­ed for this job is to sat­is­fy a pre‑employment check before tak­ing up the appoint­ment, on pro­mo­tion or trans­fer. The fol­low­ing checks are to be conducted:

1. Con­vic­tion checks in the fol­low­ing areas:

1. crimes of violence
2. sex relat­ed offences
3. seri­ous drug offences
4. crimes involv­ing dishonesty

1. Iden­ti­fi­ca­tion check
2. Dis­ci­pli­nary action in pre­vi­ous employ­ment check.

How to Apply

Apply Online. Please click the ​“Apply” but­ton on the screek=n at https://careers.pageuppeople.c… . This ensures impor­tant ques­tions about you are answered. 

You will be prompt­ed to com­plete a 1 – 2 page appli­ca­tion out­lin­ing your expe­ri­ence, skills and knowl­edge as they relate to the attached State­ment of Duties.

Please note:

• We do not require a sep­a­rate state­ment address­ing the selec­tion criteria.
• All attach­ments must be in Microsoft Word or PDF format.
• Ref­er­ee details are sub­mit­ted as part of the online appli­ca­tion so make sure you have the con­tact details of two ref­er­ees before applying.

Down­load the State­ment of Duties and any Asso­ci­at­ed Documents

We encour­age you to review the Appli­cant Guide, State­ment of Duties, pri­or to apply­ing for an overview of the duties, pro­gram, selec­tion process and selec­tion criteria.

State­ment of Duties

• Gener­ic Enrolled Nurse G2 (May 2024) CSU.pdf
• Gener­ic Enrolled Nurse G2 (May 2024) CSU.docx

Appli­cant Guide

• Depart­ment of Health — Appli­cant Guide June 22.pdf
• Depart­ment of Health — Appli­cant Guide June 22.docx

For more infor­ma­tion, please contact:

Pene­lope Ciesiolka

Phone: 6359 0200
Posi­tion: Nurse Unit Man­ag­er
E‑mail: penelope.​ciesiolka@​ths.​tas.​gov.​au

Impor­tant information

The email account you pro­vide when sub­mit­ting job appli­ca­tions will be used in cor­re­spon­dence to you. It is impor­tant that this is kept up to date and mon­i­tored regularly.

To update your email address (or con­tact num­ber), log in to www​.jobs​.tas​.gov​.au and look for ​“Exist­ing appli­cant login” where you can update your details

The Depart­ment of Health val­ues work­force diver­si­ty and recog­nis­es the val­ue each per­son offers which is shaped by their unique char­ac­ter­is­tics, back­ground, expe­ri­ences, knowl­edge, skills, val­ues and perspectives.

The core pur­pose guid­ing the way in which we work across the Depart­ment of Health is to CARE for the health and well­be­ing of all in Tas­ma­nia through our Val­ues of Com­pas­sion, Account­abil­i­ty, Respect and Excel­lence. We are unit­ed by our shared pur­pose and mod­el our CARE Val­ues through our inter­ac­tions with one anoth­er, our patients, our clients and the Tas­man­ian community.