• Part-time (20 hours / week)
• Critical Care / Intensive 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.

One of the Coast’s largest private hospitals with over 700 dedicated staff, The Sunshine Coast Private Hospital is located in a peaceful, leafy natural environment at Buderim. The hospital provides a multi-award winning service to its patients and their families. We provide our patients with a wide range of services including Maternity, Intensive Care, Cardiovascular, Vascular, Obstetric and Gynaecology, General Surgery, Urology, Cancer Care, General Medicine, Renal and Respiratory Services, Mental Health, Plastic and Cosmetic Surgery, Orthopaedic, Rehabilitation and much more. The high level of care, commitment and expertise is what makes the hospital a leading provider of healthcare services on the Sunshine Coast.

Expressions of interest are invited from highly motivated and committed Registered or Clinical Nurses for appointment to the position of Clinical Nurse Educator. This is a permanent part-time role working across both specialties Coronary Care and Intensive Care.

The key responsibility of this position is to provide support to both novice and experienced nurses to further develop their skills in Coronary Care and Intensive Care nursing. The position also includes developing education programs to advance nursing skills, reviewing policies and procedures, and supporting student nurses undertaking placements.

The successful applicant will meet the essential following criteria:

• Registered Nurse with current  AHPRA registration;
• Bachelor of Nursing and or relevant post graduate qualifications;
• Certificate IV in Training and Assessment (or working toward);
• Recent experience within the specialised setting of Coronary Care and Intensive Care (greater than 3 years experience in this specialty is preferred);
• Proven leadership with mentorship skills for new staff and students;
• Demonstrated ability to work as part of a team and to work unsupervised;
• Demonstrated high level of interpersonal, communication and leadership skills;
• Demonstrated computer and digital literacy skills. 

Desirable skills

• Post graduate qualifications in education (or similar);
• Demonstrated ability to design, implement, manage and assess educational   programs, competencies and resources.

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.

Working as part of the UnitingCare Health at The Sunshine Coast Private Hospital, our staff enjoy a values based organisation with benefits including:

• Friendly values based environment
• Generous salary packaging options
• Exciting career paths in both clinical and leadership streams
• Exceptional professional development opportunities including Post graduate leaderships programs
• Flexible working arrangements 

For further information, please contact Kathy Carfantan, ADON, on (07) 5430 3399 or via email kathy.carfantan@uchealth.com.au.   

To apply for this opportunity, please click on the 'Apply' button below to be taken to our online application process and quote reference number 11649. 

                          Applications close: 31^st October 2016