The School Based Youth Health Nurse Service aims to promote positive health outcomes for young people and their families through the provision of a primary health care service centred around the principles of early intervention, assessment and harm minimisation and prevention.
About The Team
The School Based Youth Health Nurse Service provides the opportunity for young people, their parents/carers, and members of the school community to access a health professional in the school setting for matters relating to the health and well‐being of young people. Nurses provide individual health consultations to support the health literacy and help‐seeking behaviours of young people. The service is delivered in partnership with the Department of Education to state secondary school students. Nurses play a key role in supporting school communities to adopt a whole‐school approach to wellbeing, utilising the health‐promoting school's framework to address emerging health and social concerns. This approach supports young people in making a safe and healthy transition into adulthood.
About The Role
The Clinical Nurse (CN) role provides advanced clinical and problem‐solving skills, expert planning and coordination skills in the clinical support of young people with complex care needs, 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 youth health nursing care. It integrates the social model of health and applies primary health care principles with the secondary school environment. The CN provides clinical leadership for professional and clinical practice, education and research. The role supports in management activities including portfolio responsibilities.
Autonomy
* Practices autonomously.
* Provides leadership in clinical decision making to give and/or coordinate care to young people.
* Assumes responsibility for professional leadership for a ward, service or unit in the absence of the Nurse Grade 7 (NG7).
* Applies critical thinking across all the domains.
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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