With 524 beds, The Wesley Hospital provides tertiary level medical and surgical services across 30 specialty areas including cardiology, urology, neurosurgery, gastroenterology, orthopaedics, maternity and women’s health. These services are supported by an intensive care unit, coronary care unit, cardiac catheter theatres, 24-hour emergency centre, renal dialysis, radiology, radiation therapy, pathology, pharmacy services, IVF, haematology and oncology services.

Our Palliative Care Service is seeking an experienced Nurse Practitioner to join their team. This role will be responsible for:

• Working collaboratively with the multidisciplinary team to provide expert palliative care to patients referred to the palliative care service.
• Providing advanced comprehensive holistic assessment, diagnosis, planning and implementation of care including follow up and referral as appropriate.
• Supporting patients, their families and others they identify as important; through access to timely symptom management, anticipatory planning, management of complex care, safe discharge planning and excellent communication.
• Providing a person focussed service in collaboration with other medical and health care professionals, resulting in safe, evidence based, efficient, cost effective and best possible care.
• Providing clinical leadership to the palliative care service nursing team.

 To be successful in this role, you will have:

• Registered Nurse with current National registration in accordance with the requirements of the Australian Health Practitioner Registration Authority (AHPRA)
• Current attainment of Endorsement as a Nurse Practitioner in accordance with the requirements of AHPRA
• Postgraduate qualification relevant to this position from a registered tertiary institution
• A minimum of 5 years’ experience in palliative care nursing and able to work autonomously to assess, investigate and implement appropriate treatment within an agreed scope of practice.
• Ability to mentor and provide education informally and within formal settings
• Demonstrated ability in effective communication and negotiation skills
• A commitment to person centred care to enhance service delivery
• Demonstrated commitment to continuous quality improvement processes and evidence based palliative care 
  

UnitingCare Health is one of the largest not-for-profit private hospital groups in Queensland and is a service group of UnitingCare Queensland. The hospital group is a major provider of healthcare services in Queensland which operates almost 1000 licensed hospital beds and employs over 4200 people.

Working as part of the UnitingCare Health team at The Wesley Hospital, you’ll join a values led organisation, focused on putting people at the centre of everything we do.  We actively promote a healthy work life balance, and provide access to a range of benefits including

• Generous salary packaging options which increase your take home pay;
• Exceptional professional development opportunities and exciting career paths in both clinical and leadership streams;
• Flexible working arrangements;
• Subsidised on-site parking and access to staff gym
• Access to internal job opportunities across UnitingCare Health 

For more information on the benefits of working with us please see below:

http://unitingcarehealth.com.au/careers/working-with-us#rewards

To apply for this opportunity, please click on the 'Apply' button below to be taken to our online application process.

Applications Close Sunday, 19th November 2017.

UnitingCare Health is committed to being a child safe, child friendly organisation for all children who come into contact with our services. It is our expectation that our employees will share in this commitment.  Therefore, employees and successful candidates in specified roles will be required to hold a valid ’Blue Card’ in line with the ’Working with Children Check’ requirements.

Criminal record checks will be conducted for all successful candidates.

Through our values UCQ are proud of our teams diversity, we believe in the strength of a diverse and inclusive workforce to help us achieve the best outcomes for the communities in which we operate and serve. We highly encourage applications from people who identify as a part of the Australian Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Community.