If you're motivated to work mainly school hours and support children and young people with health conditions to achieve at school, you will love working as a member of the Queensland State School Schools Service as a clinical nurse located in the Gladstone area.
Collaborating with school staff to build their capability to safely support student with health needs is very rewarding and directly contributes to students' safe inclusion, access and participation in learning.
About the Department:
The Department of Education are dedicated to building an inclusive and diverse workforce that reflects the community and schools we support by treating everyone with respect and dignity. This starts with recruitment and selection. The methods of assessing suitability in the recruitment process may vary. This includes making reasonable adjustments to support applicants at all stages of the process and employee lifecycle.
About the Role:
This position will be based out of Rosella Park School, servicing schools in the Gladstone and surrounding areas.
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Consult with students, their family and relevant stakeholders in supporting students with health needs at school
- Partnering with schools, health professionals and families as part of a multi-disciplinary approach
- Develop routine and emergency health plans that support the safe management of student's health needs at school
- Deliver health support training to school staff to enable the student to safely access and participate in schooling
- Contribute to continuous improvement of evidence-informed nursing practice locally and statewide
- Collaborate with school teams to support the inclusion of students with health needs, including curriculum planning, resource development and school improvement initiatives
- Build and maintain local health and professional networks
- Implements policies, procedures, legislation, codes and standards to enable delivery of high-quality services aligned with departmental business objectives
What you can expect in return:
- Pay parity in line with the Nurses and Midwives (Queensland Health and Department of Education) certified agreement (EB11) 2022.
- Salary sacrificing in line with Department of Education benefits.
- Flexible work arrangements.
- Additional time off benefits including potential for school holiday leave.
- No shift work.
- Comprehensive induction program.
- Professional development relevant to the role.
- Structured professional supervision.
- Peer support from other State schools nurses across Queensland.
- Collegial networking.
A mandatory requirement of this role is:
- Current registration as a registered general nurse (Division 1) with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency.
Interested? To Apply:
- Attach a brief resume including contact details for 2 referees (referees should have an understanding of your relevant work history)
- Attach a 2-page response to the How you will/may be assessedsection of the attached role description.
We welcome all applicants to share any support needed to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive.
Applications remain current for 12 months from the closing date and may be considered for appointment to identical or similar vacancies within the Department.
Applications from recruitment agencies will not be accepted.
When working in regulated employment an employee must have a current Working with Children Clearance (blue card) issued by Blue Card Services.
Salary rate shown is reflective of full-time (1.0 FTE).
The Department of Education is a family inclusive workplace. Click here to find out more about our Inclusion and Diversity strategies.
Further information
We are committed to building inclusive cultures in the Queensland public sector that respect and promote human rights and diversity.
For a full list of the position responsibilities and mandatory requirements, please ensure you download the attached role description and candidate information fact sheet and follow the instructions.
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