Overview

  • Northern Adelaide Local Health Network – Lyell McEwin and Modbury Hospitals – Elizabeth Vale and Modbury
  • Salary: $121,537 – $126,970 p.a. (pro rata) – RN3 – Temporary Part-Time – working 32 hours per week, up to 12 months (Multiple Positions)

About the Role:

The Northern Adelaide Local Health Network is seeking experienced Nurse Consultants to join the Supportive Weekend Interprofessional Flow Team. This is a unique opportunity to join a dynamic and collaborative team dedicated to delivering exceptional patient care.

The Supportive Weekend Interprofessional Flow Team (SWIFT) are integral in assisting NALHN to achieve maximum patient discharges, particularly over the weekend periods.

In this role you will be part of a Multi Disciplinary team who will identify patients who are ready for, or nearing discharge, to ensure all requirement for discharge are completed, with the goal of eliminating or reducing preventable delays to discharge across 7 days.

As a Nurse Consultant, you will play a pivotal role in supporting patient flow and ensuring seamless care transitions across the Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN). Your expertise and clinical acumen will be invaluable in facilitating effective communication, coordinating discharge planning, and optimising resource utilisation.

Key responsibilities of this role include:

  • Collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to streamline patient flow and enhance care coordination
  • Utilising your clinical expertise to support safe and efficient patient discharges
  • Identifying and addressing potential barriers to timely patient transitions
  • Contributing to continuous improvement initiatives and process optimisation

In this role you will be rostered to work Thursday – Sunday.

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 who holds, or who is eligible to hold, a current practicing certificate, OR
  • be registered or eligible for registration as a Nurse/Midwife with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia and who holds, or who is eligible to hold, a current practicing certificate.

About You:

Are you a dedicated, compassionate and enthusiastic Registered Nurse looking for an opportunity to join a dynamic, growing healthcare network where you will be part of a supportive team delivering high quality care to the community? If so, then this could be the opportunity for you. 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 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: 877355

Enquiries:

Trudy Smith-Sparrow

Divisional Director (Nursing)

Phone: 0477 733 328

E-mail: trudy.smith-sparrow@sa.gov.au

Application Closing Date:

4 October 2024  11.55PM

Role Description:

877355 – Nurse Consultant – Supportive Weekend Interprofessional Flow Team (SWIFT (Multiple Positions) – RN3 – role description.pdf

* Refer to the SA Health Career Website How to apply for further information.

Applications close: 4 October 2024 

For further information and to apply visit www.sahealth.sa.gov.au/careers and search for Job Ref: 877355

Closing Date for Applications: 4 October 2024
Name of Contact Person: Trudy Smith-Sparrow
Telephone Number of Contact Person: 0477 733 328
Trudy.smith-sparrow@sa.gov.au