Your Work Place

The Southern Tasmania Area Health Service provides health and wellbeing support services for refugees and special humanitarian program entrants. The Clinical Nurse Consultant Refugee Health Services will work in collaboration with the Southern Tasmania Refugee Health Services Committee, Director Statewide Refugee Health Services and Nurse Unit Manager Clinics to enhance the level of service delivery to this client group. Located at the Royal Hobart Hospital, the tertiary referral service for Tasmania, the Clinical Nurse Consultant Refugee Health Services will establish and maintain effective working relationships to promote integration of services provided by government, non-government, community and support-service based organizations.

Your Challenge

We are seeking an experienced Clinical Nurse Consultant to enhance service development and access for this client group in Southern Tasmania. Using a Primary Health model and under the broad direction of the Director Statewide Refugee Health Services and Nurse Unit Manager Clinics, the Clinical Nurse Consultant Refugee Health Services will work in conjunction with clinic nurses, doctors and external service providers to determine health and well being program priorities, and then develop and coordinate integrated, culturally sensitive services.

Your Qualities

You will be an experienced registered nurse, ideally with experience in a similar role or in oordinating program development that encompasses the needs of adults and children. You will have or will be working towards, tertiary qualifications in a relevant field. You will have excellent communication and coordination skills with a demonstrated ability to be culturally sensitive and build rapport with a wide range of stakeholders. You will be expected to work with a significant degree of clinical practice autonomy.

Your Opportunities

Working collaboratively with the Director of Statewide Refugee Health Services this new position is an ideal opportunity for you to have a significant impact on the refugee and special humanitarian program entrant communities in Tasmania. In addition this is an opportunity to provide nursing leadership in this important service delivery area, to ensure the development of integrated and culturally sensitive services. As the tertiary referral service and major teaching hospital for Tasmania, the Royal Hobart Hospital is committed to clinical excellence, innovation, education and research, and planning for a sustainable nursing workforce. Opportunities for practice development are supported through the conjoint appointment of the Professor of Nursing, Practice Development. In addition there are opportunities to participate in clinical research.

Your Rewards

In addition, we offer benefits and opportunities that support your professional journey which nclude:

• relocation assistance and sponsorship for eligible candidates;

• extra remuneration for post graduate qualifications in your area of practice;

• specific, fully funded post graduate courses;

• the State Service Accumulated Leave Scheme whereby you can ‘buy’ extra leave; and

• salary packaging.