Nurse Clinical Specialist - Police Watch House

Nursing

Posted: 9 Jan 2025

Location: Alice Springs NT

As the sole health professional onsite, this role will work collaboratively with the Remote Outreach Consultation Centre and Medical Retrieval and Consultation Centre to meet the health needs of persons detained in the police watch house, providing police professionals with advice on the management of persons in custody.

  • Nurse Lev­el 4 RDO (Remu­ner­a­tion Pack­age $140,738 — $151,076)
  • Prison Health — Pri­ma­ry Health Care
  • Fixed or part time vacancies 
  • Alice Springs

Two vacan­cies are avail­able on a full time or part time basis.

Exten­sive clin­i­cal expe­ri­ence work­ing in pro­fes­sion­al iso­la­tion (e.g. remote area nurs­ing includ­ing emer­gency nurs­ing, cus­to­di­al care nurs­ing) to effec­tive­ly triage, man­age and mon­i­tor acute and chron­ic health needs of per­sons detained in the police watch house ensur­ing all per­sons are Fit for Cus­tody’ is required. Appli­cants will be required to have expe­ri­ence dri­ving a man­u­al vehi­cle and be eli­gi­ble to obtain a NT dri­vers Licence and meet the Police, Fire & Emer­gency Ser­vices secu­ri­ty clear­ance requirements.

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 demon­strat­ed under­stand­ing of issues affect­ing Abo­rig­i­nal health and the prin­ci­ples of Pri­ma­ry Health Care. All enquires are welcome.

Alice Springs is a place of great nat­ur­al beau­ty and has a thriv­ing sport­ing, arts and cul­tur­al com­mu­ni­ty. Come and join the friend­ly and relaxed envi­ron­ment of the North­ern Territory!

For fur­ther infor­ma­tion about this vacan­cy please contact: 

Kaye Shipard on 08 8951 7757 or Kaye.​Shipard@​nt.​gov.​au

Quote vacan­cy num­ber: 70243018

Clos­ing date: 21.01.2025

Appli­ca­tions should con­sist of a one page sum­ma­ry sheet, resume / CV and copies of rel­e­vant qualifications.

For a copy of the Job Descrip­tion or to view career oppor­tu­ni­ties in the North­ern Ter­ri­to­ry Gov­ern­ment please vis­it https://​jobs​.nt​.gov​.au/​H​o​m​e​/​J​o​b​D​e​t​a​i​l​s​?​r​t​f​I​d​=​312862