Registered Nurse Emergency Department
Leading the way in Emergency Care: Ignite your career at one of Australia’s finest Emergency Departments
Join our team at the forefront of Emergency Care, where continuous learning, support and commitment to excellence define your journey in our tertiary Adult and Paediatric Mixed Emergency Department. The department cares for trauma including burns and acute spines, neurosurgical emergencies, neurology patients, major orthopaedic, cardiology and cardiothoracic, oncology and paediatrics. RNSH ED was awarded the 2021 College of Emergency Nursing Australasian (CENA) – Australasian Emergency Department of the Year.
- Accelerated program for experienced emergency and critical care nurses
- Structured career pathway for those transitioning to work in ED
- Supportive education, training programmes and courses
- Leadership and career progression opportunities
- Specialist training with Violence Abuse and Neglect prevention initiatives
- Commitment to environmental responsibility sustainability
- Mass Causality Incident, Chemical and Biological Response and Major Disaster training
- Advanced simulation training and experience.
- Rotations available through Clinical Accreditation programme (CAP) to RNSH ICU as well as Sydney Children’s Hospital and Westmead Children’s Hospital ED rotations
- ED Mental Health care & Drug and alcohol education
Position Classification: Registered Nurse
Remuneration: $1,342.50 - $1,884.90 per week
Hours Per Week: 38
Requisition ID: REQ480951
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 everyday. 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..
Where you'll be working
Royal North Shore Hospital's Emergency Department features Adult and Paediatric Resuscitation and Trauma Bays, Acute Adult, Paediatrics, Fast Track, and Emergency Short Stay Unit (EMU). RNSH is also the principal tertiary referral centre for NSW and Major Trauma Centre which sees us treat a larger proportion of high complexity presentations. We have established teams of qualified registered nurses, many with post graduate specialty qualifications, who are specialists in delivering high quality care as well as fostering staff of the future. We have highly qualified Clinical Nurse Educators and Clinical Nurse Unit Managers and Clinical Nurse Specialists who provide support to ensure our staff and our team are delivering the latest and highest clinical standards with a supportive robust education program. The Emergency Department supports a 12 month post graduate Clinical Accreditation Program, a Second Year Program and individualised specialist training for each area of the department.
What you'll be doing
The NSLHD Nursing and Midwifery Workforce will be compassionate, competent, confident, contemporary, capable and committed to leading person-centred health care.
Assess, plan, implement and evaluate nursing care in collaboration with individual/s and the greater health care team to achieve quality patient care outcome.
People of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander background encouraged to apply.
Candidates will need to meet the following criteria:
- Registered Nurse - Division 1 with Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA).
- Current Emergency or Intensive Care experience.
- Demonstrated effective interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills.
- Current clinical knowledge and clinical problem solving ability.
- Ability to work effectively within a multi-disciplinary team.
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For role related queries or questions contact Bryan Mckee-Hata on Bryan.McKeeHata@health.nsw.gov.au or 02 9463 2231.
This is a NSW Health Category A position which requires immunisation and screening for certain diseases including COVID-19. The full list of requirements are outlined in the NSW Health OASV Policy (Page 11). 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: 13 May 2024
