NT Health - Registered Nurse/Registered Midwife (Nurse 2) - Darwin/Palmerston, Katherine, Alice Springs, Tennant Creek, Nhulunbuy (Full-time/Part-time/Casual)
Nursing and midwifery in the Northern Territory offers unique and exciting challenges. You will work as part of a multidisciplinary team to deliver contemporary care. You will work with, and learn from, people with diverse cultural backgrounds. You will be exposed to exciting, rewarding and varied experiences and opportunities that cannot be found anywhere else in the country.
Positions are available across multiple clinical areas, including:
· Critical Care (ICU/ED/CCU)
· Medical (General/Rehab/Geriatric/Cancer Services/HITH)
· Mental Health and Alcohol and Other Drugs services
· Midwifery (all areas)
· Neonatal, and Paediatrics
· Outpatients
· Perioperative (Anaesthetics/Instrument/Circulating/PACU)
· Renal (all areas)
· Surgical (General/Orthopaedic)
Applicants must have a minimum of 12 months experience (1664-1976hrs) in a relevant area of clinical practice.
Key duties and responsibilities
1. Nursing and midwifery in the Northern Territory offers unique and exciting challenges. You will work as part of a multidisciplinary team to deliver contemporary care. You will work with, and learn from, people with diverse cultural backgrounds. You will be exposed to exciting, rewarding and varied experiences and opportunities that cannot be found anywhere else in the country.
2. Accountable for the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of nursing/midwifery care to an allocated group of clients.
3. Works within the registered nurse/midwife scope of practice and practices in accordance with relevant legislation, procedures, guidelines, and standards
4. Works collaboratively and acts as an effective member of the multidisciplinary team.
5. Contributes to the maintenance of a physically, culturally, and psychosocially safe environment for healthcare consumers and staff, modifying work practices where necessary to meet the needs of clients and the work setting.
6. Demonstrate NT health values - safe; responsive; kind – in all decision-making and interactions with consumers and colleagues.
7. Foster a positive workplace culture through role modelling appropriate behaviour.
8. Follows defined service quality standards, Workplace Health and Safety (WHS) policies and procedures relating to the work being undertaken in order to ensure high quality, safe services and workplaces.
9. Capacity to work shift work and be redeployed to other clinical areas to meet clinical needs
Selection criteria
Essential
1. Current registration as a Registered Nurse or Registered Midwife with the Nursing & Midwifery Board of Australia.
2. Demonstrated understanding of, and ability to, co-ordinate client care resulting in positive clinical outcomes.
3. Demonstrated written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills to contribute effectively within the multidisciplinary team.
4. Demonstrated understanding of the social and cultural issues, influences and sensitivities that influence provision of health care for clients and families.
5. Knowledge and understanding of Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) principles in a health care setting.
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