The Victorian School Nursing Program - Secondary School Nurse - Ovens Murray (20013606)Job posted: 02/12/2024
Location: Melbourne | Southern Metropolitan
Job type: Part time / From 28/01/2025 - 27/01/2032
Organisation: Schools (Government)
Salary: Salary not specified
Occupation: Nursing
Reference: 1455991
Location ProfileAbout the Department The Department of Education (DE) leads the delivery of education and development services to children, young people and adults both directly through government schools and indirectly through the regulation and funding of early childhood services, non-government schools and training programs.
Selection CriteriaSpecialist Expertise:Competency and experience in clinical nursing assessment and ability to work as a sole health professional within schools.Demonstrated expertise in adolescent public/school health, community health, health promotion or development paediatrics.Demonstrated experience in effective client record management, activity recording, assessment, and care planning.Cross Cultural Awareness: Communicate well with, relate to, and see issues from the perspective of people from a diverse range of cultures and backgrounds.Communication: Confidently conveys information in a clear and interesting way; develops reports and correspondence for clients and others using clear and readily understood language.Analytical, conceptual and information seeking skills: Deal with concepts and complexity comfortably, use analytical and conceptual skills to reason through problems.Service excellence: Constantly looks for continuous improvement opportunities and ways to innovate; makes specific changes in work methods to improve outcomes.RoleThe Secondary School Nursing Program is managed and led by the Department of Education (the Department) and places nurses within the wellbeing teams of selected secondary schools to help reduce negative health outcomes and risk-taking behaviours amongst young people. The Secondary School Nurse is a member of the School Nursing team; Health, Wellbeing and Specialist Services team; area and regional teams.
The Secondary School Nurse role supports the school in addressing contemporary health and social issues facing young people with a focus on health promotion and primary prevention including health education, classroom education sessions and small group education and limited primary health care including student assessment, referral and support.
ResponsibilitiesSecondary School Nurses undertake a variety of roles and responsibilities that may include (but are not limited to):
Demonstrate competency and experience in adolescent health and development, primary health care, community health, mental health, public health, education and/or health promotion.Function as a sole practitioner in a school setting, providing appropriate high quality preventative health care.Develop, implement, and evaluate a planned evidence-based approach to whole of school health promotion activities.Use initiative and judgement to select and apply established procedures to unusual or complex nursing issues.Work as part of the school community to effectively promote a broad social view of health.Maintain accurate and timely records of clinical activity for assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation purposes.Who May ApplyCurrent registration as a Division 1 Registered Nurse with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Authority.Current Victorian Working with Children Check.Current Victorian Drivers Licence.Relevant tertiary qualification and/or experience in child or adolescent health, health promotion, community health, mental health, or public health.Conditions of EmploymentThis vacancy is to replace an employee on parental absence and is for a period of seven years or until the employee absent on leave returns to duty at the school.
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