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Registered Nurse (514016)

Nursing

Posted: 1 Oct 2024

Location: North TAS

Multiple permanent full time and part time Registered Nurse positions are available at Flinders Island Multipurpose Centre

Appli­ca­tions close: Mon­day 14 Octo­ber, 2024 11:55 PM AEST

Award/​Classification: Nurs­es and Mid­wives (Tas­man­ian State Ser­vice) Award, Reg­is­tered Nurse, Grade 3 – 4

Salary: $75,902 to $102,908 pro rata, per annum

Employ­ment type: Mul­ti­ple FTE — F/T & P/​Tpos

Region: North

Loca­tion: Flinders Island Mul­ti Purp Cnt

The role:

The Reg­is­tered Nurse:

  • Strength­ens health out­comes through the pro­vi­sion of safe qual­i­ty, clin­i­cal­ly appro­pri­ate nurs­ing care in part­ner­ship with patients/​clients, their fam­i­lies and oth­er health professionals. 

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:

  • The Flinders Island Mul­ti-Pur­pose Cen­tre com­pris­es nine aged care beds, five acute beds, an Out­pa­tient and Emer­gency ser­vice, phys­io­ther­a­py, x‑ray, podiatry/​footcare and vis­it­ing services.
  • Flinders Island is a rur­al and remote tier two facil­i­ty well sup­port­ed by GPs
  • Scenic island and wel­com­ing com­mu­ni­ty of approx­i­mate­ly 900 people

Details of Appointment:

Mul­ti­ple per­ma­nent full time and part time shift-work­er posi­tions work­ing up to 76 hours per fort­night, com­menc­ing from as soon as you are avail­able to join the team. 

*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: $75,902 — $102,908 pro rata, 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.

  • Access to the Grade 4 salary range $96,558 — $102,908 is sub­ject to suc­cess­ful appli­ca­tion for pro­gres­sion to Grade 4

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 10% 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 a Reg­is­tered Nurse

    *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
    5. seri­ous traf­fic offences
  2. Iden­ti­fi­ca­tion check
  3. Dis­ci­pli­nary action in pre­vi­ous employ­ment check.

How to Apply

Apply Online. Please click the Apply” but­ton on this screen. 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

Appli­cant Guide

For more infor­ma­tion, please contact:

Pene­lope Ciesiolka

Phone: (03) 6359 0200
Posi­tion: Nurse Unit Man­ag­er — Flinders Island
E‑mail: penelope.​ciesiolka@​ths.​tas.​gov.​au