You will: 

• Lead the Aboriginal Health Worker / Practitioner, Nursing and Allied Health Workforce within a professional practice framework  
• Develop and maintain a learning environment, taking a coaching approach to team capability development and performance management. 
• Change local processes and practice in accordance with emerging service needs, care evaluation results and identified imminent systems  
• Maintain productive working relationships and manage conflict resolution, should conflict arise 
• Implement and co-ordinate, within the span of control, processes for quality improvement and professional practice including addressing inconsistencies between practice and policy 
• Use available information systems to inform decision making, evaluate outcomes and convey information to staff  
• Integrate contemporary information and research evidence with personal experience to support decision making, innovative thinking and objective analysis  
• Coordinate local processes within corporate policy and procedures 
• Lead the team in clinical and practice governance  
• Coordinate and oversee client care and health service delivery including immunisation  

About You

You bring: 

• Registered as a Nurse with the Australian Health Practitioner Registration Authority (AHPRA) Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia 
• Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander societies and culture and awareness of issues which may impact on maternal child and family wellbeing 
• Demonstrated ability to communicate sensitively and effectively with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people  
• Proven ability to lead a multi-disciplinary team within a professional practice framework, including professional supervision and training for a broad range of health professionals including students on work placement 
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate and manage service level operations within a comprehensive primary health care context and effectively oversee clinical governance in the area of midwifery and/or child and family health  
• Demonstrated ability to deliver a high level of professional judgement and clinical competence within an evidence based multi-disciplinary setting, including the National Immunisation Program  
• Excellent organisational and time management skills, the ability to work autonomously with minimal supervision, work under pressure in a complex busy workplace to assess priorities and meet deadlines, and respond to difficult and/or stressful situations in a calm, sensitive and professional manner.
• Significant experience in the use of Communicare or other electronic client health information management system to document client care (e.g. Medical Director or Best Practice) and proven capacity to monitor and report individual and population level outcomes of care 
• Demonstrated knowledge, skill, experience and contribution at strategic and operational levels in quality assurance and continuous quality improvement processes  
• Proven well-developed written and verbal communication skills and high level ability to communicate effectively with a range of health professionals and administrative staff 
• Ability to work autonomously with minimal direct supervision, whilst mentoring and providing leadership to a team of health professionals. 
• Demonstrated ability to resolve conflict, solve problems and negotiate successful outcomes.