At the NSLHD Eating Disorder Service, we provide compassionate care to support people's journey toward recovery from eating disorders.
Come join our innovative team as we continue to build a comprehensive specialist service for individuals and their families and carers in this area.
Employment Type: Permanent Full Time
Position Classification: Clinical Nurse Specialist (Grade 2)
Remuneration: $2,170.30 - $2,241.60 per week
Hours Per Week: 38
Requisition ID: REQ543153
Who we are: We are a health service that touches thousands of lives across the Northern Sydney Local Health District, together as a team of like-minded people.
We are passionate, driven, and have the skills and knowledge to care for our patients whilst creating the best services possible.
Our teams have meaningful, interesting, and rewarding work every day.
We challenge and nurture each other, sharing our knowledge and experience so that we can deliver better care for everyone.
There's a real sense of belonging here because we value and respect our patients, employees, and teams' voices.
You'll feel a real privilege being a trusted caregiver in our patients, their families, their carers, and our communities' lives.
NSLHD is proud of our diverse and inclusive workplaces, a place where health care professionals can thrive and feel they belong.
We are committed to ensuring that all our people feel respected and participate safely within a work environment without aggression, sexual harassment, discrimination, and racism. Where you'll be working
Northern Sydney Local Health District - District-wide position.
What you'll be doing
The Paediatric Eating Disorder Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) works as part of the NSLHD Virtual Eating Disorder Service to provide trauma-informed, culturally responsive, developmentally appropriate, evidence-based, direct nursing care and consultation to paediatric consumers (People of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander background are encouraged to apply. Candidates will need to meet the following criteria:
Current registration as a Registered Nurse with the Australian Health Practitioners' Regulation Authority (AHPRA) and relevant post-registration qualifications and at least three (3) years full-time equivalent clinical experience working with child and adolescent consumers with Eating Disorders and their families/carers or such other qualifications or relevant equivalent experience.Demonstrated advanced clinical knowledge in the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of people with feeding and eating disorders using evidence-based interventions.
In particular, demonstrated knowledge of the use of CBT-E, Family Based Therapy, trauma-informed care, telehealth and virtual models of care, and delivery of group therapies in treatment and meal support.Demonstrated ability to utilise advanced clinical reasoning, advocacy, and care planning skills to provide and organise developmentally appropriate health care for adult consumers with eating disorders and their families/carers.High level interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills and demonstrated capacity to engage, negotiate, and collaborate with key internal and external stakeholders (such as multidisciplinary healthcare providers, GPs, non-government and other government agencies) for a client group who are experiencing complex mental health issues.
Demonstrated high-level computer literacy and capacity to use health-related information technology systems.Need more information?
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This is a NSW Health Category A position which requires immunisation and screening for certain diseases.
The full list of requirements are outlined in the NSW Health OASV Policy.
You will be required to complete the OASV Undertaking/Declaration Form and TB Assessment Tool during the recruitment process.
Please upload this with your application along with any other vaccination evidence that you may have. NSW Health is committed to implementing the Child Safe Standards.
Applications Close: 6 January 2025
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