Employment Type: Temporary Part Time, 24 hours per week up until March 2026Location: Bolger Street, CampbelltownPosition Classification: Registered NurseRemuneration: $36.38 - $51.08 per hourRequisition ID: REQ583214Application Close Date: 29/06/2025Interview Date Range: 02/07/2025 – 09/07/2025Contact Details:: Emily Skeen – 0460 008 359 | Emily.Skeen1@health.nsw.gov.auPrevious Applicants need not applyAbout The OpportunityAre you passionate about holistic, community-based care? This is an opportunity to support individuals in staying well at home. You will work in a proactive and supportive environment while gaining rewarding clinical experience beyond the hospital setting.About the Role: You will conduct nursing assessments, coordinate care, and provide health navigation support. You will build strong partnerships with clients, families, and healthcare providers. You will support early intervention strategies to reduce unnecessary hospital visits. You will collaborate with a dynamic team to deliver person-centred care.What We Are Looking For: We are seeking a professional with strong clinical assessment skills and critical thinking abilities. You should have excellent communication and relationship-building skills. You should be proactive and adaptable in a fast-paced environment. You should be compassionate and committed to delivering person-centred care. Experience in chronic disease management, aged care, or community nursing is highly desirable.Why Join Us? This role offers a Monday-to-Friday schedule with no shift work or weekend work. It is a temporary part-time position with flexible work options available.Take the next step in your career and make a meaningful impact in community healthcare. Apply today!What You'll Be DoingThe Keeping Well in the Community Care Navigation and Coordination (KWIC CNCC) Program is an integrated care initiative within South Western Sydney Local Health District (SWSLHD) empowering clients with the tools, support and motivation needed to independently manage complex chronic and psychosocial conditions in the community.Our primary objective is to minimise avoidable hospital presentations and unplanned admissions, while expediting discharge from acute care settings. By facilitating and coordinating access to tailored care, non-clinical supports, and aiding informed/shared decision-making, we aim to comprehensively address a spectrum of unmet health and psychosocial needs to ensure clients can ‘keep well in the community’ for longer. Clinicians will provide assessment, screening, care navigation, care coordination and health coaching to identified clients in line with the NSW Health Strategic Framework for Integrating Care. Clinicians will deliver safe, compassionate, quality, person centered and integrated care, and work in collaboration with the client and families/carers, using a mostly telephone-based service model.The registered Nurse, using refined clinical skills and exercising autonomy in decision making, plays a vital role in the KWIC CNCC program. Expectations center around maintaining manageable caseloads, while ensuring the provision of safe, quality care to individuals with chronic diseases, and complex care needs. This requires close collaboration with fellow clinicians, and the multidisciplinary team to streamline service delivery. The position demands diligence in clinical assessment, precise referral procedures, and seamless coordination of health and community services to optimise patient outcomes, and satisfaction.Where You'll Be WorkingSWSLHD Primary & Community Health provides a comprehensive range of community-based services designed to improve and maintain the health and wellbeing of individuals and communities across South Western Sydney.These services include prevention, early intervention, assessment, acute and post-acute treatment, health maintenance, and continuing care. The team supports diverse populations, offering specialised programs for children, young people, older adults, and at-risk communities.With over 800 dedicated staff, including Aboriginal Health Workers, nurses, doctors, and allied health professionals, the service ensures high-quality care close to where people live.The focus on community health and wellbeing makes SWSLHD Primary & Community Health an ideal place to work, providing opportunities for professional growth and the chance to make a meaningful impact on the community.How To ApplyTo be considered for this position, please ensure you address the below questions as thoroughly as possible. View our application guide for information on how to respond to criteria and improve your application.Current Authority to practice as a Registered Nurse with the Australian Health Practitioners Regulation Agency and demonstrated recent experience as a Registered Nurse working with chronic and complex clients.Proven ability to engage with patients/consumers, carers and the multidisciplinary health care team to identify and ensure responsiveness of care needs and undertake comprehensive health care, psychosocial assessment, formulate and implement appropriate phone-based intervention for clients and their families/carers.Demonstrated experience in facilitating education, health literacy approaches and self-management support for clients with complex healthcare and psychosocial needs.Demonstrated effective interpersonal and communication skills, including written, verbal and computer skills and an ability to work independently and collaboratively in a team-based environment.Applicants must possess an Australian C-Class driver's license (including P1 or P2). Those who hold a C class license (P1 or P2 included) from a state other than NSW must obtain a NSW C class (P1 or P2 included) license within three months of appointment. Learner's licenses are not permitted.Need more information?Click here for the Position DescriptionFind out more about applying for this positionAdditional InformationSalary PackagingSouth Western Sydney Local Health District employees are able to enjoy the benefits of salary packing. Visit Smart Salary for more details.Health & FitnessSouth Western Sydney Local Health District employees receive discounted Gym Membership/Corporate Wellbeing Programs, including Fitness Passport.Transforming Your ExperienceTransforming Your Experience (TYE) is SWSLHDs key strategy to always positively transform your, our patients, our consumers, our staffs and our communities experiences across our organisation and services. Our vision is that our care is always safe, high quality and personalised and all our staff are supported and empowered to achieve their full potential. SWSLHD upholds the CORE Values – Collaboration, Openness, Respect and Empowerment.To be eligible for permanent appointment to a position in NSW Health, you must have an Australian citizenship or permanent Australian residency.At South Western Sydney Local Health District we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, where we don’t just accept differences but we honour and support it. Committed to providing a working environment that thrives and values diversity, we encourage people of ️ ???? Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander ️ ???? background, people with a disability and people from the LGBTQI+ community to apply.SWSLHD is committed to driving a child safe culture that upholds children and young people’s rights. We strive to ensure children and young people feel safe, supported and included in their care. Existing staff of SWSLHD and those seeking employment are required to take the safety, welfare and wellbeing of children and young people seriously while taking action to keep them safe from harm and abuse.Connect with us on 'X', Facebook and LinkedIn.
#J-18808-Ljbffr