• Provide expert advice and lead care across WSLHD’s community health teams.
• Salary Packaging: Cut taxes and Boosts take home pay.
• Paid Allocated Day Off (ADO) every month, in addition to your annual leave.

Lead continence care across WSLHD, providing expert clinical support, coordination, and consultancy in both community and acute settings.

Employment Type: Permanent Full Time
Position Classification: Clinical Nurse Consultant Grade 2
Remuneration: $131,870.90 - $134,500.70 per annum
Hours Per Week: 38
Location: Mount Druitt, Auburn, Parramatta, The Hills & Blacktown Community Health Centres

Where you'll be working
Western Sydney Local Health District (WSLHD) is responsible for providing primary and secondary health care for people living in the Auburn, Blacktown, and The Hills Shire, Cumberland and Parramatta Local Government Areas (LGAs) and tertiary care to residents of the Greater Western Region. We are committed to our vision of 'better health services for the people of western Sydney and beyond'. and to the delivery of health care or related services in line with our core values of collaboration, openness, respect, and empowerment.

What you'll be doing
The Clinical Nurse Consultant (CNC) Continence provides an advanced level continence assessment and management service as an expert in the specialty field and facilitates linkages and relationships with Local Health District (LHD) nurses and medical officers (in the acute and community settings) to support the management of clients with acute, chronic and complex continence issues.

The CNC is responsible for the provision of expert clinical advice, coordination, leadership and consultancy services within the defined speciality and target populations within Integrated & Community Health (I&CH), Western Sydney Local Health District (WSLHD).

The role includes assessment, care planning and review of clients in collaboration with primary service providers to ensure that evidence-based practice is utilised.

This role provides support to multiple community health centres and requires travel to other sites.

How to Apply
Apply online by submitting your resume and addressing the criteria listed below by providing examples that demonstrate your ability before the closing date.

Essential Criteria:

• Registration: Current Registered Nurse Division 1 with the Australian Health Regulation Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA).

Selection Criteria:

1. Demonstrated relevant experience with a minimum of 5 years full time equivalent post registration experience and at least 3 years full time equivalent experience in continence.
2. Demonstrated relevant post graduate qualifications in continence and/or other qualifications and/or experience deemed appropriate by the employer.
3. Demonstrated ability to implement changes and develop direction in clinical practice by the initiation, utilisation and review of evidence based research.
4. Experience with contributing to strategic and clinical service planning and the management of organisational and cultural change.
5. Demonstrated high level advanced communication and interpersonal skills across a variety of mediums and proven ability to write for a variety of documents.
6. Proven advanced skills in clinical teaching, competency in the use of contemporary information systems and evidence of the ability to develop, implement and evaluate specialty education programs
7. Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively in a multidisciplinary framework within I&CH and the LHD, in addition other service providers.
8. Current Drivers Licence valid within Australia and willingness to use for work purposes.

Requisition ID: REQ558420
Applications Close: 27th April 2025

Need more information?

• Discover more about the application process.
• Review the detailed Position Description for insights into role requirements and criteria.
• Explore the selection process, employment checks, outcomes and notifications.
• For inquiries about the role, contact Debra Lopez on [email protected]

People with disabilities who meet the selection criteria are encouraged to apply; and where required, WSLHD will implement reasonable adjustment consistent with industry standard.

Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people are encouraged to apply. Stepping Up aims to assist Aboriginal job applicants by providing information about applying for roles in NSW Health organisations. For more information, please visit https://www.steppingup.health.nsw.gov.au/

Please note: To be eligible for permanent appointment to a position in NSW Health, you must have an Australian citizenship or permanent Australian residency.

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