Report­ing to the Health Cen­tre Man­ag­er, you will be required to work as part of a team deliv­er­ing coor­di­nat­ed and com­pre­hen­sive Pri­ma­ry Health and emer­gency care to clients and their community.

Some of your key respon­si­bil­i­ties will include:

• Pro­vid­ing pro­fes­sion­al, evi­dence-based pri­ma­ry health­care to indi­vid­u­als, fam­i­lies and communities;
• Deliv­er­ing health pro­mo­tion and edu­ca­tion activ­i­ties, coor­di­nat­ing assigned health pro­grams (i.e; Chron­ic Con­di­tion or Mater­nal and Child Health);
• Tak­ing a holis­tic approach to assess­ing clients, sup­port­ing patients to under­stand their con­di­tion, treat­ment and pre­ven­tion strategies;
• Work­ing in con­sul­ta­tion with the mul­ti­dis­ci­pli­nary health care team to stream­line an inte­grat­ed patient jour­ney across all providers; and
• Par­tic­i­pat­ing in an on-call ros­ter to pro­vide a 24/7 emer­gency care service.

To be suc­cess­ful, you will be cur­rent­ly reg­is­tered with AHPRA as a Reg­is­tered Nurse and have demon­strat­ed post-grad­u­ate expe­ri­ence in the deliv­ery of com­pre­hen­sive pri­ma­ry health care, includ­ing emer­gency care. You’ll have a sol­id under­stand­ing of cul­tur­al safe­ty and a com­mit­ment to the prin­ci­ples of Abo­rig­i­nal com­mu­ni­ty con­trolled health ser­vices. Any expe­ri­ence work­ing in remote areas or with Abo­rig­i­nal com­mu­ni­ties will be high­ly regard­ed. You’ll have sol­id under­stand­ing of good clin­i­cal prac­tice and rural/​remote health care, with demon­strat­ed expe­ri­ence in a wide range of prac­ti­cal nurs­ing duties and pro­ce­dures, as well as knowl­edge of rel­e­vant leg­is­la­tion that gov­erns nurs­ing practice.

Impor­tant­ly, you’ll be a col­lab­o­ra­tive team play­er with out­stand­ing com­mu­ni­ca­tion and inter­per­son­al skills, and the abil­i­ty to adapt your com­mu­ni­ca­tion style to work effec­tive­ly with peo­ple from a wide range of cul­tures and backgrounds.

Please note: Due to the fre­quent trav­el required, you will need to hold a cur­rent, Man­u­al Dri­ver’s Licence, and be com­fort­able trav­el­ling by 4WD or light air­craft as required.

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.

For fur­ther queries: please con­tract KAMS HR 08 9194 3200

Appli­ca­tions close on the 24^th April 2025

Apply here : https://​kam​sc​-iframe​.apply​now​.net​.au/​j​o​b​s​/​K​A​M​S1418

OR vis­it KAMS Web­site- https://​kams​.org​.au/​t​r​a​i​n​i​n​a​g​-​e​m​p​l​o​y​m​e​n​t​/​e​m​p​l​o​y​ment/