RN | Paediatric Services | BROKEN HILL

Job title: Registered Nurse – Paediatric Services Support

Company: Maari Ma Health Aboriginal Corporation

Location: Broken Hill, New South Wales

Salary: Earn up to $117,600 gross per annum plus superannuation, depending on experience

• Temporary accommodation, up to 6 weeks + Relocation assistance to help you get to Broken Hill
• Working M-F, 8.30am to 5.00pm only + 5 weeks paid annual leave per year + ADOs
• Additional leave over the Christmas period.

Summary: Our multidisciplinary team is looking for a RN with experience working with children and their families in a primary health setting and supporting clinics to join us to provide a quality health service to the Aboriginal families.

About Maari Ma Health Aboriginal Corporation  

Maari Ma Health is an Aboriginal community-controlled regional health service that has been providing a quality service to the Aboriginal people of far western New South Wales for more than 20 years and employs over 140 people within the region.

About the role   

Our multidisciplinary team is looking for a registered nurse with experience working with children and their families in a primary health setting and experience supporting clinics to join us to provide a quality health service to the Aboriginal families of far western New South Wales. Reporting to the Manager Healthy Start, this full-time opportunity.

Incentives for this position

• Temporary accommodation for up to 6 weeks
• Relocation assistance to help you get to Broken Hill
• Home base travel allowance to keep in touch with your family – $600 allowance on completion of each 6 months of service for 2 years.

Key Responsibilities

• Work as part of the Child and Family Health program within the Maari Ma footprint, to ensure safe and effective paediatric services.
• Foster innovation in practice that contributes to the delivery of quality care.
• Implement a ‘two-way learning’ approach: preceptor Aboriginal Health Practitioners, sharing clinical knowledge and skills. Whilst being mentored by the AHPs and building knowledge towards working with families in a culturally appropriate way; seeking feedback from the AHPs regarding your engagement with families, especially when undertaking home visits.
• Actively preceptor the C&FH AHPs through facilitating and guiding on the job training to further develop their role.
• Provide practical and clinical support to the AHPs to assist their work in the community with clients and complete those health checks indicated.
• Encourage staff to provide community care and interact with clients to encourage active engagement with our clients.
• Work in partnership with other health professionals to ensure a multidisciplinary approach to health care and to support best practice, knowledge and skills of practitioners.
• Develop effective interagency partnerships, for example with Broken Hill Health Service, to ensure continuity of care for clients.
• Provide culturally inclusive quality health care to individuals, families and the community within own level of competency and across agreed procedures and protocols, in order to meet expected health outcomes.
• Work closely with Child & Family Health team to support effective communication and consistency in the provision of services for complex and vulnerable children and families.
• Facilitate case conferencing to optimise team care for children and their families. Act as case manager for those selected families who require complex intensive long term support.
• Function as the Cold Chain Coordinator for the Healthy start area, performing duties as per the Cold Chain policy.
• Coordinate paediatrician clinics and out of home care requests.

Skills and experience  

• Current unconditional registration with AHPRA as an registered nurse
• Hold a postgraduate qualification relevant to performing the role of a Child and Family Health Nurse.
• Recognised credentials in a preceptorship role or ability to complete a certified Preceptorship course within the first six months of employment.
• Currently possess or able to obtain within 3 months of commencing employment, authorisation as an immunisation provider in New South Wales.
• Evidence of recent post registration experience working with families and young children.
• Ability to work in a way that fosters mutual respect in a cross-cultural environment
• Demonstrated understanding of and commitment to the principles of primary health care and how they relate to maternal and infant health, particularly Indigenous children
• High level of interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to respond effectively to clients who may be challenging to engage.
• Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of the principles of population health and primary health care, especially as they relate to Aboriginal communities.
• Computing skills relevant to the position and competent in the use of information and communication technology including Microsoft Word, email and internet applications and the ability to quickly acquire skills in other applications.
• Current unrestricted drivers licence and a safe driving record and ability to undertake regular outreach travel.

Maari Ma offers a great range of benefits

• Annual salary up to $117,600 gross per annum plus superannuation, depending on experience.
• Working Monday to Friday 8.30am to 5.00pm only, no shift weekend or on call.
• Generous Salary Packaging, standard up to $15,900 per year. Plus, access to Salary Packaging Novated Leasing, Meal Entertainment and Accommodation card and Remote Area Benefits to increase the standard amount you can salary package – full benefits go to the employee.
• Onsite parking, uniform, and further allowances.
• 5 weeks Annual Leave
• Paid accrued days off (up to 12 per year)
• Christmas Closure including additional paid leave to cover the period (4 days)
• Flexible leave accrual
• Public holidays off
• Annual salary increases.
• Access to use our accredited health care service for you and your family (conditions apply)

The Location:

We are proud to work on Paakintji country. The Oasis of the Outback, Broken Hill is a living, breathing time capsule where the local Aboriginal Culture blends seamlessly with a rising modern art scene, all set amid a sprawling desert landscape. It is a place of huge skies, rocky red earth, and a fascinating and internationally significant history. This historic town is great for all ages and has several day-cares, primary schools, high schools, and TAFE. Beyond Broken Hill and on your doorstep, you can discover spectacular and culturally significant national parks, lush rivers and lakes, abundant wildlife, and other classic towns of outback New South Wales and beyond. Broken Hill has an airport servicing both Qantas and Rex with two-three flights a day from Sydney and Adelaide and is only a 5-hour drive from Adelaide.