An oppor­tu­ni­ty exists for tal­ent­ed and enthu­si­as­tic Nurse Prac­ti­tion­ers to join the WA Coun­try Health Ser­vice Kim­ber­ley Team.

• Great ben­e­fits includ­ing loca­tion allowance, annu­al trav­el allowance and an addi­tion­al week annu­al leave.
• Gen­er­ous Salary Pack­ag­ing Benefits.
• The Coun­try Nurs­ing & Mid­wifery Incen­tive Program.
• As a WA Coun­try Health Ser­vice employ­ee, you’re enti­tled to dis­counts across some pri­vate health care funds. Please see attached fly­er for fur­ther details.

To be suc­cess­ful, you will have…

• Demon­strat­ed exten­sive pro­fes­sion­al expe­ri­ence rel­e­vant to the role includ­ing an abil­i­ty to work effec­tive­ly as a sole prac­ti­tion­er in a remote, mul­ti­cul­tur­al environment. 
• Demon­strat­ed broad nurs­ing expe­ri­ence with recent acci­dent and emer­gency skills. 
• Strong com­mu­ni­ca­tion, prob­lem-solv­ing, and ana­lyt­i­cal skills, with proven abil­i­ty to engage effec­tive­ly, nego­ti­ate, and resolve com­plex issues. 
• Demon­strat­ed knowl­edge, under­stand­ing of the prin­ci­ples of Pri­ma­ry Health Care and Community. 
• Demon­strat­ed knowl­edge, under­stand­ing and expe­ri­ence in Qual­i­ty Improve­ment, its prac­ti­cal appli­ca­tion in meet­ing patients’ needs and its rela­tion­ship to strate­gic development.

Posi­tion Pro­file:
To work as a mem­ber of a mul­ti­dis­ci­pli­nary team with­in a pri­ma­ry health care frame­work and phi­los­o­phy in part­ner­ship with the Com­mu­ni­ty and oth­er organ­i­sa­tion. To pro­vide con­tin­u­ous,
coor­di­nat­ed and com­pre­hen­sive pri­ma­ry health care of advanced clin­i­cal lev­el to fam­i­lies and indi­vid­u­als of that community.

Area Pro­file
WACHS Kim­ber­ley is the most north­ern health region of WACHS. The Kim­ber­ley region has approx­i­mate­ly 200 Abo­rig­i­nal com­mu­ni­ties, over 34 dif­fer­ent Abo­rig­i­nal lan­guage groups and
45 per­cent of the pop­u­la­tion are Abo­rig­i­nal and/​or Tor­res Strait Islander peo­ple. WACH­SKim­ber­ley con­sists of six hos­pi­tals, an inpa­tient men­tal health unit, three Com­mu­ni­ty Direc­torates and a Cor­po­rate Office. WACHS Kim­ber­ley pro­vides hos­pi­tal, com­mu­ni­ty health, pub­lic health, remote area health, com­mu­ni­ty aged care, and men­tal health ser­vices across the region through a ded­i­cat­ed team of med­ical, nurs­ing, Abo­rig­i­nal health, allied health, and sup­port staff. 

Want to know more about this role?
We encour­age you to con­tact Deirdre Mur­phy on 0427 127 715

How to Apply: Appli­cants are request­ed to apply online http://​www​.jobs​.health​.wa​.gov.…