Overview
- Northern Adelaide Local Health Network – Lyell McEwin Hospital – Elizabeth Vale
- Salary: $72,651 – $99,129 p.a. (pro rata) – RN1 – Ongoing Full-Time and Part-Time (Multiple Positions)
About You:
Are you a dedicated, compassionate and enthusiastic Registered Nurse seeking a fulfilling career opportunity? At the new Acute Frailty Unit within the Lyell McEwin Hospital, you will be part of a supportive team delivering high quality care to our community. This position will offer you professional growth opportunities within a supportive and inclusive culture.
This is an excellent opportunity to contribute to a passionate, highly driven, dedicated and progressive team.
About the Role:
The Aged Care, Rehabilitation and Palliative Care Division are opening an Acute Frailty Unit at Lyell McEwin Hospital which will provide a comprehensive geriatrics assessment in a short-stay setting for patients requiring acute in-patient admission, with direct flow through to geriatrics subacute and out-of-hospital services.
The dedicated multi-disciplinary team within the Acute Frailty Unit will focus on early assessment and decision making, offering a hub of expertise and leadership in geriatrics and provide education for staff in the care of older persons.
In this role, you will play a pivotal role in providing exceptional care to patients with complex health needs. As a Registered Nurse in the AFU, you’ll be responsible for assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating nursing care for individuals requiring acute medical and rehabilitation services.
Working alongside a multidisciplinary team of healthcare professionals, you’ll have the opportunity to make a meaningful impact on patients’ lives. Utilise your clinical expertise, critical thinking skills, and effective communication to ensure the delivery of high-quality, patient-centred care.
To be eligible for this position, you must be registered or eligible for registration as a Nurse with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia and hold, or be eligible to hold, a current practicing certificate.
About Us:
The Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN) provides care for more than 400,000 people living in the northern metropolitan area of Adelaide and boasts newly redeveloped wards and Emergency and Outpatient Departments, with plans for the addition of more brand-new facilities in the near future. NALHN provides a full range of high-quality medical, surgical (both elective and emergency), obstetric, neonatal, paediatric, mental health, oncology, geriatric medicine, palliative care and rehabilitation. Increasingly these are provided across a range of hospital, community and home-based settings.
NALHN offers a range of primary health care services across the northern metropolitan area of Adelaide, with a focus on providing preventive and health promoting programs in the community, and transition and hospital substitution and avoidance programs targeted at chronic disease and frail aged.
With a workforce of almost 6,500 employees, NALHN works to ensure quality and timely delivery of health care, whilst building a highly skilled, engaged and resilient workforce based on a culture of collaboration, respect, integrity and accountability.
Our core values of respect, integrity and accountability underpin our commitment to provide excellence in care, innovation, creativity, leadership and equity in service provision and health outcomes to the Northern area communities.
At NALHN Everyone Has a Story, Everyone Matters, Everyone Contributes and Everyone Grows.
Our Local Health Network Sites and Services:
Lyell McEwin Hospital – The major hospital in the north and north-east for emergency care, complex and multi-day surgery, medicine, obstetrics, paediatrics and outpatient services.
Modbury Hospital – A general hospital with emergency care, elective surgery, medicine, outpatient and sub-acute services, rehabilitation, geriatric and palliative care.
Benefits of working at NALHN:
From salary packaging to flexible working arrangements, a large range of opportunities for movement and career progression, you’ll find there are lots of benefits of working with Northern Adelaide Local Health Network.
Salary packaging is an option for saving money by paying for some of your everyday expenses from your salary before it is taxed.
Relocation assistance may be available for successful applicants from interstate or overseas.
NALHN supports and fosters a culture in which employees feel they belong and feel safe at work. The culture aims to encourage all people to use their talents and to be valued and rewarded for their contributions.
The South Australian public sector promotes diversity and flexible ways of working including part-time. Applicants are encouraged to discuss the flexible working arrangements for this role.
Appointment will be subject to a satisfactory Criminal History Check.
Check(s):
- DHS Working With Children Check (WWCC)
- National Police Certificate (NPC) for employment involving unsupervised contact with vulnerable groups required for this position (e.g. aged care employment or work involving vulnerable clients)
Immunisation Risk for this position is – Category A (direct contact with blood or body substances)
SA Health Services are required to implement the Addressing vaccine preventable disease: Occupational assessment, screening and vaccination policy in the workplace.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants are encouraged to apply. Job Ref: 874005
Enquiries:
Office of Aged Care, Rehabilitation and Palliative Care
Phone: (08) 7321 4232
E-mail: Health.NALHNACRPCRecruitment@sa.gov.au
Application Closing Date:
30 August 2024 – 11.55PM
Role Description:
* Refer to the SA Health Career Website – How to apply for further information.
Applications close: 30 August 2024
For further information and to apply visit www.sahealth.sa.gov.au/careers and search for Job Ref:
874005
Contact:
Office of Aged Care, Rehabilitation and Palliative Care
(08) 7321 4232
Health.NALHNACRPCRecruitment@sa.gov.au