• Nurse Lev­el 5 — Remu­ner­a­tion Pack­age Range $160,157 — $166,812 (includ­ing salary $136,235 — $143,391)
• Nurse Lev­el 6 — Remu­ner­a­tion Pack­age Range $175,892 — $182,860 (includ­ing salary $149,765 — $157,329)
• Pri­ma­ry and Pub­lic Health Care, Out­reach Ser­vices Cen­tral Aus­tralia Alice Springs

Apply your Nursing/​Midwifery expe­ri­ence and knowl­edge of Dia­betes and Vas­cu­lar clin­i­cal / edu­ca­tion ser­vices to make a dif­fer­ence to the lives of patients in Cen­tral Australia. 

The Depart­ment of Health man­ages the North­ern Ter­ri­to­ry pub­lic health sys­tem, oper­at­ing as one sys­tem across 5 regions, pro­vid­ing the full spec­trum of essen­tial, qual­i­ty health ser­vices, from health pro­mo­tion to pre­ven­tion, treat­ment, reha­bil­i­ta­tion, and pal­lia­tive care across the life course.

As the Nurse Prac­ti­tion­er — Com­plex Chron­ic Con­di­tions Dia­betes you pro­vide spe­cial­ist clin­i­cal care, advice and edu­ca­tion­al ser­vices for a client group with diverse and/​or com­plex care require­ments and con­tribute to the devel­op­ment of qual­i­ty sys­tems that sup­port remote areas in the man­age­ment of Dia­betes and Vas­cu­lar dis­eases. In addi­tion, you will pro­vide sound pro­fes­sion­al advice crit­i­cal in deal­ing with issues relat­ed to assess­ment, plan­ning, review, eval­u­a­tion, and coor­di­na­tion of client care.

To be suc­cess­ful, you will be an accom­plished Nurse with cur­rent reg­is­tra­tion with the Nurs­ing and Mid­wifery Board of Aus­tralia with demon­strat­ed advanced clin­i­cal knowl­edge, skills and expe­ri­ence, well-devel­oped clin­i­cal deci­sion­mak­ing and prob­lem-solv­ing skills and pro­fi­cien­cy in the under­stand­ing, appli­ca­tion, analy­sis and inter­pre­ta­tion of a pro­fes­sion­al body of knowl­edge. Addi­tion­al­ly, you will have a post­grad­u­ate qual­i­fi­ca­tion at Aus­tralian Qual­i­fi­ca­tions Frame­work Lev­el 8 in a rel­e­vant clin­i­cal field. Effec­tive com­mu­ni­ca­tion and inter­per­son­al skills, the abil­i­ty to man­age con­flict and pro­mote coop­er­a­tion and well-devel­oped appre­ci­a­tion of the social and cul­tur­al issues and sen­si­tiv­i­ties relat­ing to pro­vid­ing health care in rur­al com­mu­ni­ties is essen­tial. As the role ser­vices remote com­mu­ni­ties, you will be required to trav­el by 4WD or light air­craft on a reg­u­lar basis and stay in com­mu­ni­ty for a num­ber of days.

In return, you will enjoy the ben­e­fits of a com­pet­i­tive remu­ner­a­tion with salary pack­ag­ing options, 12% Super­an­nu­a­tion, up to 7 weeks recre­ation­al and 3 weeks per­son­al leave, and an oppor­tu­ni­ty to fur­ther your pro­fes­sion­al devel­op­ment in NT Health. Gen­er­ous allowances and sup­port with relo­ca­tion will be provided.

If you reside inter­state, this a great time to con­sid­er the expe­ri­enced Cen­tral Aus­tralia has to offer. Alice Springs (or Mparn­twe in Arrernte lan­guage) is the third-largest town in the North­ern Ter­ri­to­ry, with a pop­u­la­tion of approx­i­mate­ly 33,000 peo­ple. The Region has deep spir­i­tu­al ori­gins dat­ing back more than 30,000 years, and an abun­dance of rich cul­ture and his­to­ry. The town is sur­round­ed by stun­ning nat­ur­al beau­ty, includ­ing the Mac­Don­nell Ranges and the Red Cen­tre Desert. About 450kms down the road is Ulu­ru, a large sand­stone rock for­ma­tion that is a spec­tac­u­lar sight any time of the year

Explore work­ing for NT Health 

• https://​nt​.gov​.au/​w​e​l​l​being

• Nurse and Mid­wife Incentives 

Explore work­ing in the North­ern Ter­ri­to­ry Government

Explore liv­ing in Alice Springs • https://jointheterritory.nt.go…

For fur­ther infor­ma­tion about this vacan­cy please con­tact: Ali­son Hack on 08 8955 6095 or alison.​hack@​nt.​gov.​au

Quote vacan­cy num­ber: 12321 

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​me/Jo…