About the Role

You will:

• Participate in targeted health promotion and community engagement activities
• Promote the benefits of healthy growth and development, healthy social-emotional development and healthy lifestyles and environment
• Promote the importance and benefits of general preventative health assessments and immunisation and ensure access to these services
• Provide day-to-day clinical supervision, education and support for Aboriginal Health Workers/Practitioners and contribute to peer supervision activities
• Provide advice to the Team Manager, Maternal and Child Health on professional development needs of Aboriginal Health Workers/Practitioners and collaborate in the delivery of clinical teaching, goal setting and learning, and broader training activities and programs
• Ensure timely action to resolve local team service delivery problems
• Contribute to communication processes to manage challenging behaviours/conflict resolution
• Ensure timely and accurate documentation of clinical notes, consistent with professional standards maintained and statistical and other reports provide as requested
• Manage client data and client files in compliance with privacy policies and legislation
• Ensure quality and completeness of clinical records for data extraction and reporting
• Contribute to the development and implementation of service policies, procedures and work instructions
• Undertake all other reasonable duties as requested.
• Practice as a Registered Nurse in accordance with relevant legislation, professional standards and evidence in all practice and accepts professional responsibility and accountability for all actions and decision making within scope of practice
• Attend professional development training courses and activities to maintain and update knowledge and skills as appropriate

About You 

You bring:

• Complete qualification in a Degree in Nursing
• Current AHPRA Registration as a Registered Nurse (Division 1)
• Post-graduate qualifications in Child and Maternal Health
• Minimum of three years of demonstrated vocational experience in a Primary Health Care setting consistent with the position’s role and responsibilities
• Demonstrated understanding of the contemporary issues facing Aboriginal people and the impacts these issues have on Indigenous Australian societies and cultures; and
• Demonstrated ability to communicate sensitively and effectively with Aboriginal people
• Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of issues which may impact on maternal child and family wellbeing
• Sound knowledge of best practice guidelines and protocols and well-developed clinical skills and specialist knowledge gained through experience, training, or education
• Experience in the use of electronic client health information management systems (e.g. Communicare, Medical Director or other)
• Proven well-developed written and verbal communication skills and demonstrated ability to liaise and network effectively with a range of health professionals and administrative staff
• Excellent organisational and time management skills, and ability to work autonomously with minimal supervision and show leadership as a member of a multi-disciplinary team
• Demonstrated ability to function within a complex busy workplace and respond to difficult and/or stressful situations in a calm, sensitive and professional manner
• Demonstrated knowledge, skill and experience in continuous quality improvement processes.