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Clinical Nurse Consultant Rosella- Extra Corporeal Life Support

Job posted: 26/11/2024
Applications close: 10/12/2024 (Midnight)
2 days remaining

2 days remaining

Job Description

Location: Melbourne | Parkville

Job type: Part time

Organisation: The Royal Children's Hospital

Salary: $125,000 - $128,000

Occupation: Health and Allied Health

Reference: 12561

Reference: 12561

Occupation: Health and Allied Health

Salary Range: $125,000 - $128,000

Work location: Melbourne | Parkville

  • National Centre for Paediatric Heart Transplantation and patients requiring Ventricular Assist Device
  • Parkville, Melbourne location
  • Friendly and dynamic team

 

About the Role

This is a Permanent position part time 64 hours per fortnight within Rosella ward, The Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU).

We are looking for an expert nurse with advanced theporetical and clinical skills, who will provide professional clinical leadership to support the management of patients requiring ECLS and Centrifugal short ter Ventricular Addist Device (C-VAD). The RCH ECLS Program is the largest paediatric ECLS service within Australia, based withing Rosella, providing cardiac and respiratory life support to critically ill infants and children. The CNC-ECLS works collaboratively with the ECLS medical director to provide leadership and governance of the ECLS program. Supporting the delivery of high-quality clinical care and timely access to ECLS for children within Victoria and interstate (Tasmania, South Australia and Northern Territory). The CNC leads, develops and coordinates the interdisciplinary education of the ECLS team and is responsible for enabling the aqcuisition of relevant knowledge, skills and team training of the ECLS team.

 

Your skills and experience:

  • Current registration as a Registered Nurse with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA) administered though the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (APHRA)
  • Demonstrated commitment to ongoing personal and professional development, as evidenced in a Continuing Professional Development (CPD) record/Profession al practice Portfolio.
  • Postgraduate qualification in critical care nursing.
  • Masters qualification or willingness to undertake
  • Minimum 5 years experiences in Paediatric Intensive Care nursing

 

If this sounds like you, click here to view the position description

 

About Rosella ward, Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU)

Rosella - Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) Ward provides intensive care services to critically ill infants, children and young people for Tasmania, Victoria, and southern New South Wales. The RCH delivers the state-wide paediatric, Infant and Perinatal Emergency retrieval (PIPER) service and is a National Funded Centre for paediatric heart transplantation, paediatric liver transplantation (in collaboration with Austin health), Norwood procedure and staged surgical palliation for hypoplastic left heart syndrome and paediatric lung transplant (in collaboration with Alfred health). PICU is a 24-hour service that operates 365 days a year.

 

Our PICU services include:

  • Speciality Critical Care Practice for both Medical and Surgical Children
  • Specialist Paediatric Critical Care Trauma Services
  • Pre- and post-operative care for Cardiac Surgery including Heart Failure, Ventricular Assist Device and Transplant
  • Pre- and Post-Operative Care of Organ Transplantation
  • Extra Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) Service

 

What we offer:

  • Salary Packaging – Increase your take home pay!
  • Employee Assistance Program and RCH Peer Support Program.
  • Ability to join Fitness Passport - Your pass to an extensive choice of fitness facilities.

 

Other requirements:

  • Current National Criminal Record Check, or willing to obtain.
  • Valid Working with Children Check
  • Compliance with RCH’s “Staff Immunisation - Prevention of Vaccine Preventable Diseases” procedure

 

Application process

To apply, you will need a resume and a tailored cover letter outlining your skills, experience, and suitability for the position in line with the requirements of the position description.

Shortlisting for this position will commence immediately, we encourage you to apply promptly!

For more information about this position please contact Justine Brown, Nurse Unit Manager on Ph: 03 9345 5825 Email: justine.brown@rch.org.au

 

Why work at the RCH?

RCH enjoys high employee engagement and is committed to staff safety and a positive culture through enactment of our Compact. We offer the opportunity to work in world-class facilities, surrounded by Royal Park and only a short tram trip from the heart of Melbourne city.

We also offer discounted staff parking, salary packaging, and an award-winning health and wellbeing program.

The RCH is committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people from culturally and/or linguistically diverse background, all members of the LGBTQI community and people with disability.

It is a requirement of your employment that you be fully vaccinated against Covid-19, and Influenza annually for Category A and B roles, in compliance with any public health orders in place at the relevant time, unless you have a medical exception in line with those public health orders, which has been accepted by The Royal Children’s Hospital.  Applicants will be required to provide their Australian Government Immunisation History Statement, it is a requirement of the RCH to collect, record and hold vaccination information.

It is also a requirement of your employment that you comply with any direction given by The Royal Children’s Hospital that you be vaccinated against, or prove immunity to, any other disease, unless you have a relevant exemption

Are you ready to join our team? 

 Apply online by clicking on the “Apply” button

Applications close 10 December 2024

Clinical Nurse Consultant Rosella- Extra Corporeal Life Support

Job type:

Part time

Job classification:

Undefined

Contact:

Justine.Brown@rch.org.au - Justine Brown - 93455825

Clinical Nurse Consultant Rosella- Extra Corporeal Life Support