Estab­lished in 1998, Kather­ine West Health Board is an Abo­rig­i­nal Com­mu­ni­ty Con­trolled Health Organ­i­sa­tion that pro­vides a range of clin­i­cal, pre­ven­ta­tive and pub­lic health ser­vices to clients in the Kather­ine West Region of the North­ern Ter­ri­to­ry. With four major health care cen­tres and a range of satel­lite cen­tres, KWHB ser­vices an area over two times the size of Tas­ma­nia (162,000km²), help­ing to improve the health and well­be­ing of some of the most remote com­mu­ni­ties in Australia. 

Posi­tion Description

About the Opportunity

The Mobile Team Remote Area Nurse posi­tion deliv­ers Pri­ma­ry Health Care and health pro­gram sup­port to remote area res­i­dents liv­ing on cat­tle sta­tions, Abo­rig­i­nal communities/​outstations, and NT Parks sit­u­at­ed in the Kather­ine West region.

Respon­si­bil­i­ties will include (but not lim­it­ed to):

• Pro­vide qual­i­ty pri­ma­ry health care to indi­vid­u­als, fam­i­lies, and the com­mu­ni­ty with­in own com­pe­ten­cy lev­el, KWHB endorsed pro­to­cols and the CARPA Man­u­al to meet expect­ed client needs.
• Pro­vide well per­son checks and advice and sup­port in pro­gram areas of sex­u­al health, men­tal health, women’s and men’s health, child health, chron­ic dis­ease, allied health ser­vices and social and emo­tion­al wellbeing.
• Refer and link clients to oth­er health pro­fes­sion­als and appro­pri­ate sup­port organisations.
• Main­tain infor­ma­tion sys­tems required for the effec­tive man­age­ment of clients.
• Sup­port and par­tic­i­pate in Qual­i­ty Improve­ment activ­i­ties with­in the Health Cen­tre to enhance the safe­ty and effec­tive­ness of care.

The suc­cess­ful can­di­date will enjoy an attrac­tive remu­ner­a­tion of AHP/RAN — NP (nego­ti­at­ed based on skills, qual­i­fi­ca­tions and expe­ri­ence) PLUS super and a range of ben­e­fits, which include: 

• Relo­ca­tion & repa­tri­a­tion assistance
• Salary sac­ri­fic­ing of up to approx­i­mate­ly $15k.
• 6 weeks annu­al leave
• Dai­ly trav­el allowance when work­ing away from Katherine
• Thor­ough work­place train­ing and orientation 
• Fan­tas­tic pro­fes­sion­al devel­op­ment oppor­tu­ni­ties and allowances
• Flex­i­ble work and leave options

This is an excel­lent oppor­tu­ni­ty to devel­op your skills, advance your career and enhance your cul­tur­al knowl­edge whilst mak­ing a pos­i­tive difference.

Var­i­ous employ­ment mod­els avail­able for nego­ti­a­tion, con­tact HR today to find out more on the options available. 

Addi­tion­al Information: 

• If you would like to chat fur­ther about this oppor­tu­ni­ty, please con­tact our KWHB Human Resources Team by call­ing (08) 8971 9300 or email­ing hr@​kwhb.​com.​au
• The start date can be nego­ti­at­ed pend­ing the require­ments of the suit­able candidate. 
• Find out more about work­ing for Kather­ine West Health Board here.