Department for Health and Wellbeing

Job reference: 784220

Location: 5112 - ELIZABETH VALE

Job status: Ongoing

Eligibility: Open to Everyone

• Northern Adelaide Local Health Network - Lyell McEwin & Modbury Hospitals and GP Plus - Elizabeth Vale and Modbury
• Total Indicative Remuneration: $132,442 - $140,221 p.a. - RN3 - Ongoing Full-Time

The Nurse Consultant - Outpatients is responsible for the integration of personal clinical expertise and evidence based practice to ensure provision of a contemporary service across the NALHN outpatient sites.

In this role you will provide clinical nursing/midwifery expertise for specified individual patients/clients and/or groups/populations, and/or provide clinical leadership for an area of practice and may work in a variety of clinical settings. As a Nurse Consultant you will be an expert within your area and stream of practice and have a significant degree of autonomy and decision making.

Various practice models may be used to enact this role, including but not limited to:

• Primarily providing nursing/midwifery care;
• Providing clinical leadership to nurses/midwives;
• Nurse Practitioner Candidate: Nurses classified at this level are working towards becoming an expert and being able to provide extended practice in their specialist field, within their scope of practice. They develop their capacity for extended practice by increasing their knowledge and skills through ongoing clinical exposure, post graduate qualifications and mentoring, with supervision by an authorised nurse practitioner and/or medical staff.

As a Nurse Consultant you will accept accountability for your nursing/midwifery practice, the outcomes of nursing/midwifery practices for the specific patient/client group, the professional advice given, delegations of care made and for addressing inconsistencies between practice and policy.

To be eligible for this position, you will 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.