Employment Type: Casual, up to 38 hours per week
Location: Bowral Hospital
Position Classification: Assistant in Nursing
Remuneration: $ – $ per hour
Are you hardworking and enthusiastic?
Wanting to extend your skills in nursing – be part of a team with patient centred care focus
About the Opportunity
Exciting opportunity for AIN to join the Bowral nursing team – consolidate your nursing skills within a nurturing environment.
Bowral Hospital is recruiting for an Assistant In Nursing to complement and enhance the current Unit.
Life at South Western Sydney Local Health District is rewarding, progressive and diverse and is always focused on achieving our Vision of Leading Care, Healthier Communities.
What You'll be Doing
The Assistant In Nursing will assist the registered nurse and enrolled nurse with the planning, provision and documentation of patient care, working within the framework of the policies of SWSLHD, the Ministry of Health and the NSW legislative and statutory requirements.
South Western Sydney Local Health District (SWSLHD) is focused on achieving our Vision of Leading Care, healthier communities.
All staff are expected to act as an appropriate and effective role model, promoting a culture that supports practices that reflect the NSW Health CORE values of Collaboration, Openness, Respect and Empowerment through demonstrated behaviors and interactions with patients, clients and employees.
The vision of SWSLHD Nursing and Midwifery Service is Compassionate Nursing and Midwifery Care Always, through leading effective workplace cultures that improve the patient experience.
Where You'll Be Working The Southern Highlands of NSW is made up of 34 towns and villages, providing both a rural yet cosmopolitan lifestyle of cafes, restaurants and wineries, offering a diverse range of industry, sports, arts and culture, affordable housing, excellent schools, all less than hours travel to Sydney, Canberra and the coast.
Bowral & District Hospital is part of the South West Sydney Local Health District with strong and established networks to tertiary facilities of Campbelltown and Liverpool.
Bowral & District Hospital is a new state of the art hospital - opened in December 2020, with level 3 acute bed facility which provides a wide range of services including 24 hour Emergency Department, 2 Operating Theatres plus a Procedures room, Day Surgery, Endoscopy, Orthopaedics, Ophthalmology, Critical and Coronary Care, Maternity & Paediatrics.
The Hospital has established an excellent reputation in the community for its commitment to safe, quality patient care, consumer feedback rating is at an average of 94% satisfaction across all markers.
1. Certificate III Assistant in Nursing - Acute Care or current enrollment in and successful completion of at least 2 semesters of a Bachelor of Nursing with a satisfactory academic record.
2. Demonstrated ability to work under supervision and provide safe compassionate quality care that is culturally responsive
3. Demonstrated ability to effectively communicate and engage with patients/consumers, carers and the multidisciplinary health care team to identify and ensure responsiveness of care needs
4. Demonstrated capacity to interact with others in a personable and professional manner and personally resolve conflicts when they arise
5. Demonstrated evidence of the use of critical thinking as it relates to the delivery of evidenced based nursing care
6. Demonstrated understanding and participation in risk management, work health and safety and quality improvement in the workplace
7. A thorough understanding of scope of practice and demonstrated ability to work within scope boundaries.