Under s25 of the Anti-Discrimination Act 1991, there is a genuine occupational requirement for the incumbent to be Indigenous to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community.
About The Team
The Primary School Nurse Health Readiness Program (PSNHRP) is a state-wide initiative dedicated to optimizing the health and wellbeing of Queensland children as they transition into primary school. The program delivers a universal, community-based vision screening service to all Prep-aged children across the state. The PSNHRP has a particular emphasis on the early identification of visual abnormalities to reduce preventable blindness and improve the developmental outcomes of Queensland children.
Registered Nurses within the PSNHRP are embedded in every Hospital and Health Service throughout Queensland. They provide vision screening in state, Catholic, and independent schools, ensuring equitable access to early detection services. These nurses are supported by the centrally located PSNHRHP HUB in Logan Central, which oversees consistent service delivery and manages program data integrity.
Using evidence-based screening tools, the PSNHRP identifies visual abnormalities in young children, enabling timely intervention to support optimal growth and development. The program is staffed by a team of highly skilled and culturally responsive Registered Nurses who deliver clinical services with professionalism and care.
About The Role
The Clinical Nurse (CN) role provides advanced clinical and problem-solving skills, expert planning and coordination skills in the universal screening of children in Queensland, ensuring quality standards are met. This role works autonomously within the Healthcare Team structure and is pivotal in the planning, managing and delivering of specialist nursing care. The CN provides clinical leadership for professional and clinical practice, education and research. The role supports in management activities including portfolio responsibilities.
This role offers a unique opportunity to guide culturally responsive and safe community-led approaches to ensure the PSNHRP better meets the needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and families.
About Children\'s Health Queensland Hospital and Health Service (CHQ HHS)
Children\'s Health Queensland is a recognised leader in paediatric healthcare, teaching and research, delivering a full range of clinical services and training, tertiary and quaternary care and health promotion programs to children and young people from across Queensland and northern New South Wales.
Our interprofessional workforce of more than 5,000 people deliver responsive, integrated and internationally recognised person-centred care through a network of services and facilities, including the Queensland Children\'s Hospital, Jacaranda Place, Ellen Barron Family Centre, our Child and Youth Community Health Service, our Child and Youth Mental Health Service, and other statewide services and programs including specialist outreach and telehealth services.
Inclusion and diversity
To encourage inclusive practices in recruitment, we are committed to increasing our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workforce and building inclusive cultures that respect and promote human rights and Workforce Diversity and Inclusion. CHQ is an equal opportunity employer.
Some of the great benefits of working at CHQ HSS
Benefits
* Opportunities for professional growth and development
* Competitive renumeration
* Annual pay increases
* 12.75% employer superannuation contribution
* 17.5% annual leave loading
* Salary packaging
* Employee wellness and assistance program
* Work/life balance, variety, and flexibility
You can find out more about why it's so great to work at CHQ HHS here.
Occupational group Health - Nursing
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