Rural Generalist Nurse Practitioner/Transitional Nurse Practitioner - Nambucca Valley

• provide holistic care to a broad range of acute and chronic presentations across the lifespan to address patient, resident and community needs.
• receive and make referrals to facilitate integrated care across disciplines or teams and contribute to clinical excellence through research, teaching, consulting and providing leadership to the nursing profession.
• work autonomously and collaboratively in an advanced and extended nursing clinical role, meeting the clinical demand within their defined and agreed scope of practice and formulary, including patients with chronic and complex care.
• provide expertise in chronic and complex health conditions and support the development of best practice emergency / inpatient care plans and coordination of discharge plans for identified high risk patients with chronic and/or complex medical diagnosis that present to Dorrigo MPS.
• provide expertise to the assessment and management of chronic & complex health conditions for the 21 residents of ‘Highview’ (RAC) within a wellbeing, resident directed model of aged care.
• create culturally safe partnerships to address priority population groups within the Dorrigo plateau community including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people living with a disability, people experiencing homelessness or on low incomes, older people and culturally and linguistically diverse groups
• coordinate health care activity and referral to, and liaison with, internal and external community agencies and services relevant to their conditions

Salary will be accordance with NSW Health State Awards for the advertised classification/s.  These awards are available at http://www.health.nsw.gov.au/careers/conditions/pages/default.aspx.

AN ELIGIBILITY LIST FROM THIS RECRUITMENT ACTIVITY MAY BE CREATED FOR FUTURE VACANCIES