Enrolled nurse me

Employment Type: part time
Hours: 0.53
Salary: As Per NSW Nursing and midwives award
Location: Mercy Health Albury Inpatient Palliative care unit
Upload with Application: Resume, cover letter, and all relevant qualifications

Contact: Nurse unit manager: Jessica McLean

Summary of the role: Mercy Health Albury Palliative Care Unit is a 10-bed inpatient palliative care service operating in the regional city of Albury, NSW providing holistic specialist multidisciplinary palliative care services to Albury Wodonga and surrounds. The multidisciplinary team is headed by an enthusiastic palliative care physician and includes nursing staff, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, social work, Dietetics, Speech pathology and pastoral care worker. We provide psychological and spiritual support, caring for people of all ages with life-limiting illnesses as well as complex symptom management.

• To provide best practice care as a pivotal member of the multidisciplinary team,
• Act in a position of advocacy for the patient and their family in collaboration with medical staff, nursing staff and allied health staff.
• Be a part of this compassionate team in providing quality care, best practice led care and respect and dignity through life limiting illness.

You will have:

• Essential requirements: Current registration with the Australian Health Practitioners Regulation Agency (AHPRA) as an Endorsed Enrolled nurse.
• Experience in palliative care desirable but not essential.
• Focused on patient centered nursing.
• Minimum 2 years post graduate nursing experience.
• Excellent clinical, time management, organisational and communication skills, with the ability to adapt and problem solve.
• A compassionate, flexible and positive approach to effective patient care and management.
• The ability to nurture friendly, respectful relationships and contribute to a collaborative team environment.
• Ability to operate computer programs such as Electronic Medical Records.

You will also be required to provide evidence of, or in the process of obtaining:

• A current NSW Police Record Check
• Proof of current influenza vaccination and other vaccination status consistent with public health orders.

We acknowledge the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung peoples, traditional Custodians of the Land in which our Head Office is based, on traditional lands of the Kulin Nation and recognise their deep connections to the land, sea, and culture.

We extend this acknowledgment to the many Traditional Lands that we operate across Australia and pay our respects to Elders past and present.

The team at Mercy Health is as wonderfully diverse as the patients, residents, clients and communities we support. We're proud to be recognised as an Employer of Choice for Gender Equality by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA). Mercy Health strongly encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and people of all ages, sexualities, genders, abilities and cultural backgrounds.