Your opportunity

The South West Palliative Care Service provides comprehensive and compassionate care to address palliative care needs for clients and their families/carers living in South West communities.

The Service collaborates with many other integral organisations in the complex care delivery to clients, utilises and encourages innovation, quality and research to obtain optimal person-centred goals of care.

This role is required to work flexibly and will be required to travel to consult and engage with facility multidisciplinary teams, service partners, clients and their families/carers.

The Nurse Practitioner Palliative Care will:

• Provide an advanced scope of palliative clinical practice including expanded skills and knowledge in advanced assessment, care planning and implementation, medication management, diagnoses, and evaluation of palliative nursing care.
• Plan, provide, support and coordinate specialist palliative care to clients and their carers across the continuum of care to reduce hospital admissions and decrease inpatient length of stay, including pre-emptive planning to reduce crisis management.
• Provide professional/clinical consultancy, collaboration and system expertise to outpatients, carers, community, inpatients and other health service providers as required.
• Engage with acute hospital services, when appropriate, to facilitate direct admissions to and from inpatient settings across the continuum of care.
• Provide clinical leadership, mentorship and support for nurse practitioner candidates, nursing staff within the service and other relevant staff.

Demonstrate transformational leadership and team commitment through open communication and active participation in development and achievement of service goals, including creating alignment across services within South West Hospital and Health Service.

Critically appraise and integrate relevant research findings into decision making about health care management, patient/client/carer interventions and education of nurses and other professionals.

The very nature of what we do and who we are is the real opportunity. Providing health care in the bush is full of challenges, however, it remains the most rewarding of human experiences.

Roma is the largest town in the Maranoa Region servicing a catchment population of almost 14,000 and offers an array of city-like conveniences with friendly country hospitality. Roma's newly built hospital hosts an extensive list of services with state of the art facilities. A great place for families in a region traditionally rich with oil and gas and farming industries, Roma boasts an abundance of sports, recreation and schooling options. With annual events such as Easter in the Country and the Roma Races, Roma is fast becoming renowned for its enthusiasm in bringing world class Festivals and Events to the local area, showcasing their community spirit; the same community feel that makes Roma a career move you will wish you had made earlier.

What we can do for you

Ultimately, we provide you a platform to leapfrog your career with more opportunities to experience a wider scope of practice with less competition due to location and population.

Nowhere else will you experience the vast diversity of nursing and career advancement other than in rural and remote Queensland.

• People focused role which allows you to give back to the community!
• Opportunities to progress your career and scope of practice!
• Up to 12.75% employer superannuation contribution!

Be a part of something bigger

South West Hospital and Health Service are part of Queensland Health and partner with many influential and leading organisations to boost partnerships and deliver world-class health care and services. We service an area of more than 310,000 square kilometres, are bordered by three states and cover 21% of Queensland. We provide services to a population of 26,000 via 26 healthcare facilities, consisting of Hospitals, Multipurpose Health Services, Community Clinics, Aged Care Facilities and General Practice Services.

Take a look at what Roma has to offer! – www.romaqueensland.com.au

For more information on South West Hospital and Health Service - https://www.southwest.health.qld.gov.au/