Overview
Permanent Part Time vacancy at 56 hours per fortnight (0.7 FTE).
As a Clinical Nurse in Palliative Care, you will play a pivotal role in delivering high-quality patient care within the palliative care setting. Your advanced skills in patient assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation will enable you to provide expert clinical advice while leading a multi-disciplinary team. You will actively participate in improving care services and be accountable for the efficient use of resources, ensuring that our patients receive holistic and compassionate support throughout their journey.
Qualifications
* Must be eligible for registration as a Registered Nurse by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia.
* Demonstrated advanced nursing practice within a palliative care setting is essential.
* Strong planning, coordination, and decision-making skills tailored to palliative care.
* Well-developed leadership skills, with the ability to lead and be a part of multi-disciplinary teams.
* Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, along with strong interpersonal abilities.
* Experience in incorporating risk management and quality initiatives into nursing practice.
* Current driver\'s license (C or C-A Class) is required.
Key Responsibilities
* Provide an expert clinical role in community and hospital settings, offering professional advice on clinical standards and symptom management.
* Assist the Nurse Manager with resource planning and management strategies for palliative care services across the South West.
* Facilitate effective communication with patients, families, staff, and the general public, identifying patient education needs.
* Actively contribute to quality improvement and research programs to enhance palliative care services.
* Monitor nursing practice and support the implementation of strategies to improve care delivery.
About WA Country Health Service
The WA Country Health Service's core business is the provision of quality, accessible health services to people from large regional centres to those in small remote communities. Our vision is to be a global leader in rural and remote healthcare. Our values of Community, Compassion, Quality, Integrity, Equity and Curiosity shape who we are, how we behave, how we interact with each other, how we make decisions and how we provide care to our patients.
Region and contact
To learn more about the role, please refer to the attached Job Description Form or contact Claudia Tschopp on 97725228.
Benefits
* 12% employer contributed superannuation into a fund of your choice.
* As a WA Country Health Service employee, you're entitled to discounts across some private health care funds.
* Generous salary packaging benefits: up to $9,010 on a range of benefits such as mortgage, rent or other everyday living expenses.
* Up to $2,650 on meal entertainment, holiday accommodation and venue hire.
* Access to novated leasing to use pre-tax dollars for a car and expenses.
* Professional Development Opportunities and Study Leave/assistance.
* Flexible working arrangements and leave arrangements.
* Other professional and location-based allowances.
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