Registered Nurse - Acute Frailty Unit (AFU) (Multiple Positions)
Job no: 874005
Work type: Full time, Part time
Location: Adelaide Metro Northern
Categories: Nursing/Midwifery
* Northern Adelaide Local Health Network – Lyell McEwin Hospital – Elizabeth Vale
* Salary: $72,651 - $99,129 p.a. (pro rata) plus Superannuation and Salary Sacrifice benefits – RN1
* Ongoing Full-Time and Part-Time (Multiple Positions)
About You:
We are seeking enthusiastic, passionate and energetic Registered Nurses to join our new ACE Inpatient Service. The service was established in August 2024 and is now seeking clinicians with a genuine interest in bettering the lives of Older People and providing expert clinical care.
The ACE Unit is made up of a dynamic multidisciplinary team who all work together to achieve a shared goal - optimising the acute care period for Older People. Our service is committed to providing best practice care that supports consumer choice and celebrates individuality. We deliver innovative, holistic, person-centred care to a diverse group of clients. We promote acute care with dignity, respect, and compassion through valuing patients' time, supportive communication, and shared decision-making. Shared team values have led to the creation of a highly functional team with a positive workplace culture.
The role of Registered Nurse provides opportunity for further learning and upskilling into other senior nursing roles such as Clinical Nurse and on to Nurse Consultant.
About the Role:
The ACRPC Division is opening an ACE Unit at Lyell McEwin Hospital which will provide a comprehensive geriatrics assessment in a short-stay setting for patients requiring acute in-patient admission, with direct flow through to geriatrics subacute and out-of-hospital services.
The dedicated multi-disciplinary team within the ACE Unit will focus on early assessment and decision-making, offering a hub of expertise and leadership in geriatrics and providing education for staff in the care of older persons.
In this role, you will play a pivotal role in providing exceptional care to patients with complex health needs. As a Registered Nurse in the ACE, you'll be responsible for assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating nursing care for individuals requiring acute medical and rehabilitation services.
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 hold, or be eligible to hold, a current practicing certificate.
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.
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: 874005
Enquiries:
Office of Aged Care, Rehabilitation and Palliative Care
Phone: (08) 7321 4232
E-mail: Health.NALHNACRPCRecruitment@sa.gov.au
Application Closing Date:
13 December 2024– 11.55PM
Role Description:
874005 - Registered Nurse - Acute Frailty Unit (AFU) (Multiple Positions) - RN1 - role description.pdf
* Refer to the SA Health Career Website – How to apply for further information.
Advertised: 29 Nov 2024 Cen. Australia Daylight Time
Applications close: 13 Dec 2024 Cen. Australia Daylight Time
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