Senior Nurse Manager (Grade 4) - Drug & Alcohol Professional Lead for Nursing
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- REQ543651 Requisition #
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- Dec 19, 2024 Post Date
Employment Type: Permanent Full Time
Position Classification: Nurse Manager Grade 4
Remuneration: $147,420.11 - $150,008.17 per annum plus Superannuation
Hours Per Week: 38
Requisition ID: REQ543651
Location: The Langton Centre, Surry Hills
Applications close date: 2 January 2025
Where you'll be working
SESLHD Drug and Alcohol (D&A) Service offers a range of treatment and support services for people with problems from their alcohol, prescription or illicit drug use, and/or their families and carers. Outpatient D&A services are located in clinics at the Langton Centre in Surry Hills, St George Hospital in Kogarah, and Caringbah Community Health Centre at Sutherland Hospital. Inpatient D&A services are provided at Sydney Hospital, Prince of Wales, St George and Sutherland Hospitals.
The Role
The Senior Nurse Manager, Drug and Alcohol (D&A) services provides senior professional leadership to build a high performing culture, management and accountability. The position is responsible for the overall management of nursing practice, ensuring that it is consistent with contemporary, evidenced based practice and oversees a range of Nursing interventions models within SESLHD D&A Service. The Senior Nurse Manager facilitates the implementation of high-level clinical expertise in order to provide high quality care to patients/clients and their carers consistent with NSW Ministry of Health (MoH) and SESLHD policies, procedures and standards. The position contributes directly to the development of policy, with consideration of the strategic context.
This position has professional accountability for the nursing services within the SESLHD D&A Services facility and reports operationally to the Director Drug & Alcohol Services or delegate and has professional accountability to the Nursing lead on the PaCH Executive Team and SESLHD Director of Nursing.
The Benefits
Position Classification: Nurse Manager Grade 4
Remuneration: $147,420.11 - $150,008.17 per annum plus Superannuation
Hours Per Week: 38
Requisition ID: REQ543651
Location: The Langton Centre, Surry Hills
Applications close date: 2 January 2025
Where you'll be working
SESLHD Drug and Alcohol (D&A) Service offers a range of treatment and support services for people with problems from their alcohol, prescription or illicit drug use, and/or their families and carers. Outpatient D&A services are located in clinics at the Langton Centre in Surry Hills, St George Hospital in Kogarah, and Caringbah Community Health Centre at Sutherland Hospital. Inpatient D&A services are provided at Sydney Hospital, Prince of Wales, St George and Sutherland Hospitals.
The Role
The Senior Nurse Manager, Drug and Alcohol (D&A) services provides senior professional leadership to build a high performing culture, management and accountability. The position is responsible for the overall management of nursing practice, ensuring that it is consistent with contemporary, evidenced based practice and oversees a range of Nursing interventions models within SESLHD D&A Service. The Senior Nurse Manager facilitates the implementation of high-level clinical expertise in order to provide high quality care to patients/clients and their carers consistent with NSW Ministry of Health (MoH) and SESLHD policies, procedures and standards. The position contributes directly to the development of policy, with consideration of the strategic context.
This position has professional accountability for the nursing services within the SESLHD D&A Services facility and reports operationally to the Director Drug & Alcohol Services or delegate and has professional accountability to the Nursing lead on the PaCH Executive Team and SESLHD Director of Nursing.
The Benefits
- Up to 12 allocated days off each year in addition to annual leave.
- Salary packaging options that reduce your taxable income and increase your take-home pay! Up to $9K for living expenses and $2.6K meal & entertainment & Novated Leasing.
- Discounted gym memberships with a Fitness Passport.
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for employees and family members.
- Discounted Private Health Insurance.
Selection Criteria
- Relevant tertiary qualifications and current Nursing Registration with AHPRA with demonstrated expertise of health policy, priorities and treatment in relation to the drug and alcohol field; Hold a current Driver's Licence with willingness to travel across district sites frequently.
- Demonstrated experience of applying contemporary health management including ability to coordinate planning across a range of services, managing the process of organisational change, evaluating outcome and adjusting direction.
- Extensive experience in providing nursing interventions relevant to drug and alcohol patients with complex clinical presentations.
- Demonstrated ability to provide high level clinical support, training and supervision, develop performance assessment indicators and skill development tools.
- Excellent negotiation, decision making and advocacy skills including the ability to interact constructively and collaboratively with a diverse range of stakeholders, throughout all organisational levels.
- Demonstrated experience of working as part of a multi-disciplinary team and applying independent professional judgement when dealing with situations of a complex nature.
- Demonstrated experience of initiating, leading, completing and disseminating quality improvement, service evaluation processes and research activities.
- Demonstrated high level communication skills including writing reports, briefings and other correspondence and representing the D&A nursing services inside and outside the organisation at a local level.
Need more information?
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For role related queries or questions, please contact Apo Demirkol via email at Apo.Demirkol@health.nsw.gov.au
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Information for applicants
- Employment of a temporary visa holder may only occur if no suitable permanent resident or citizen of Australia has been identified for this position following suitable labour market testing.
- Applicants will be assessed against the essential requirements and selection criteria contained within the position description.
- Recommended applicants will be reviewed for compliance with NSW Health policy directive Occupational Assessment, Screening and Vaccination against Specific Diseases for all positions prior to offer.
- SESLHD is committed to creating a workplace that reflects the diversity of our community. This will help ensure our employees, our patients and their carers, feel supported. We invite candidates of all ages, genders, sexual orientation, cultural backgrounds, people with disability, neurodiverse individuals, and Indigenous Australians to apply. We do have an Aboriginal Employment Consultant that can also provide support (SESLHD-AboriginalWorkforce@health.nsw.gov.au) and for additional information please visit our Stepping Up Website.