Job No: KAMS1448 Loca­tion: Kutjung­ka

• Join a ded­i­cat­ed team pro­vid­ing essen­tial mater­nal health ser­vices in Kutjung­ka Region.
• Oppor­tu­ni­ty to make a sig­nif­i­cant impact on the health out­comes of communities.
• Com­pet­i­tive salary of $120,292 and range of benefits! 

About the Organisation

Kim­ber­ley Abo­rig­i­nal Med­ical Ser­vices LTD (KAMS) is a well-estab­lished region­al Abo­rig­i­nal com­mu­ni­ty con­trolled health ser­vice, found­ed in 1986, which pro­vides cen­tralised advo­ca­cy and resource sup­port for 6 inde­pen­dent mem­ber ser­vices, as well as pro­vid­ing direct clin­i­cal ser­vices in a fur­ther 6 remote Abo­rig­i­nal com­mu­ni­ties across the region.

KAMS has suc­cess­ful­ly deliv­ered high-qual­i­ty, acces­si­ble com­pre­hen­sive pri­ma­ry health care ser­vices over its 22 years of oper­a­tion and has pro­vid­ed inno­va­tion and nation­al lead­er­ship in areas such as health infor­ma­tion man­age­ment and evi­dence based best prac­tice in pri­ma­ry health care.

The Kim­ber­ley region is locat­ed in the north­ern part of West­ern Aus­tralia and cov­ers about 421,000 square kilo­me­tres. The Kim­ber­ley has only three towns with a pop­u­la­tion of more than 2,000 (Broome, Der­by and Kununur­ra), and the total pop­u­la­tion is around 37,000. In addi­tion to the sealed Route 1 which runs along the south­ern part of the area, the unsealed Gibb Riv­er Road runs through the heart of the region from Der­by to the high­way near Kununur­ra. Access to much of the region is by dirt road, air or sea.

About the Opportunity

KAMS now has an oppor­tu­ni­ty for a Remote Area Mid­wife to join their friend­ly, mul­ti­dis­ci­pli­nary team in the Kutjung­ka region (Bal­go, Mulan, Billilu­na), WA, on a full-time basis, 6 weeks on, 3 weeks off. Report­ing to the Clin­ic Man­ag­er, you’ll be respon­si­ble for the coor­di­na­tion and deliv­ery of com­pre­hen­sive mid­wifery and pri­ma­ry health care ser­vices with­in the Kutjung­ka region.This posi­tion will also be required to pro­vide emer­gency care with­in the Bal­go com­mu­ni­ty when nec­es­sary, on a ros­tered on-call basis after hours.

Some of your key respon­si­bil­i­ties will include:

• Pro­vide pro­fes­sion­al, evi­dence based mid­wifery and pri­ma­ry health care to indi­vid­u­als, fam­i­lies and the com­mu­ni­ty util­is­ing a holis­tic and cul­tur­al­ly accept­able approach.
• Pro­vide sup­port and enable ear­ly access to a mid­wife and GP for a holis­tic assess­ment of their preg­nan­cy, risks and choices.
• Under­take Well Women’s Health checks rou­tine­ly and opportunistically.
• Refer post­na­tal clients to and col­lab­o­rate with the Kutjung­ka Child Health Nurse to ensure a stream­lined and inte­grat­ed health care jour­ney for the moth­er, child and family.
• Per­form Enhanced Abo­rig­i­nal Child Health checks when Kutjung­ka Child Health Nurse not avail­able or as required.

The ide­al can­di­date will be a Reg­is­tered Mid­wife, who is reg­is­tered or is eli­gi­ble for reg­is­tra­tion with, AHPRA. You’ll have the demon­strat­ed abil­i­ty to pro­vide qual­i­ty health­care, includ­ing emer­gency care, with a min­i­mum of 5 years post-grad­u­ate expe­ri­ence, with expe­ri­ence in the plan­ning, pro­vi­sion, man­age­ment and eval­u­a­tion of mater­nal health ser­vices with­in an Indige­nous pri­ma­ry health care setting.

Ide­al­ly, you would have lived and/​or worked as a Nurse in a remote area pre­vi­ous­ly, with a com­mit­ment to the prin­ci­pals of an Abo­rig­i­nal com­mu­ni­ty con­trolled health ser­vice and the abil­i­ty to work both autonomous­ly and as part of a mul­ti­dis­ci­pli­nary team. A high lev­el of integri­ty and a ded­i­ca­tion to main­tain­ing patient con­fi­den­tial­i­ty will ensure you flour­ish in this position.

Expe­ri­ence with clin­i­cal data­base sys­tems and pro­fi­cien­cy with Microsoft Word and Excel will be high­ly regard­ed. Due to the nature of this role, a cur­rent man­u­al driver’s licence with the capac­i­ty to dri­ve a 4WD is required. Addi­tion­al­ly, you will need to be able to trav­el by light aircraft.

To view the posi­tion descrip­tion, please click here.

Please note: It is a require­ment that suc­cess­ful can­di­dates hold a cur­rent WA Work­ing With Chil­dren Check, and be will­ing to under­go a Nation­al Police Check pri­or to employ­ment with KAMS.

About the Benefits

KAMS is an organ­i­sa­tion that tru­ly val­ues its team, and is com­mit­ted to improv­ing employ­ee knowl­edge, skills and expe­ri­ence. In addi­tion, staff devel­op­ment pro­grams are not only encour­aged but are often paid for by KAMS. This role is a high­ly attrac­tive oppor­tu­ni­ty for some­one with a desire to devel­op their pro­fes­sion­al knowl­edge and expe­ri­ence in the area of Abo­rig­i­nal and Tor­res Strait Islander health!

While you will face diverse new chal­lenges in the role, you will also enjoy an attrac­tive salary pack­age includ­ing a base salary of $120,292 plus super and a fur­ther host of ben­e­fits, including:

• On call load­ing (25% of base salary);
• Dis­trict allowance $2,740 p.a.;
• Iso­la­tion air­fare reim­burse­ment $2,000;
• Iso­la­tion leave of 2 weeks every 6 weeks in the community;
• Annu­al air­fares sub­sidy to the val­ue of $1,285 p.a. (after 12 months of service);
• 5 weeks leave p.a; and
• Accom­mo­da­tion pro­vid­ed whilst in community. 

Please note: Peo­ple of Abo­rig­i­nal and Tor­res Strait Islander descent are strong­ly encour­aged to apply.

This is an excel­lent oppor­tu­ni­ty to devel­op your skills, advance your career and enhance your cul­tur­al knowl­edge in stun­ning out­back loca­tions. Make a pos­i­tive dif­fer­ence — Apply Now! https://kamsc-iframe.applynow.…