Role details

The Connected Community Pathways Project Team at the Bowen Hospital is seeking applications for a Nurse Practitioner (Frail Aged Services) to join their team on a permanent basis.

How to apply and for mandatory requirements regarding this role, please refer to the attached Role Description.

Your opportunity

To develop and lead a new model of care within the Connected Community Pathways (CCP) project nurse led multidisciplinary team. The CCP team will aim to reduce avoidable Emergency Department presentations and potentially preventable hospitalisations through timely assessment and intervention with combined telehealth and face to face consultations in the patient/client's usual residence/residential aged care facility (RACF). The CCP team will work collaboratively with Emergency Department Bowen Hospital, Queensland Ambulance Service (QAS), General Practitioners and other service providers of commonwealth funded services within the Bowen community.

This project will focus on residents, patients and clients within the Bowen community having access to timely clinical assessment and implementation of or modifying of treatment plans by the Nurse Practitioner through telehealth or face to face consultation in the patient/client's usual residence or residential facility. The Nurse Practitioner will be supported by a Clinical Nurse Consultant and will provide care, where practical, in collaboration with the patient/clients usual General Practitioner/ Medical Officer and in accordance with the patient/clients advanced care planning directives.

The CCP project team will work with the Bowen Hospital discharge team to facilitate RACF transfers and admissions, discharge planning for clients of home care services and provide a review service of discharged clients of commonwealth funded services in their home reducing failed discharges and hospital readmission.

About the Team

The Bowen Hospital is a 20-bed inpatient ward, 3 oncology and 6 renal dialysis chairs and a 24/7 emergency department. The Hospital provides a service to the Bowen community with outreach of the allied health services to Collinsville Multipurpose Health Service.

The emergency department provides a Telehealth model to Bowen Residential Aged Care Facilities (RACF) to support afterhours clinical assessment. The Community Connected Pathways Project multidisciplinary team will be employed by Mackay Hospital and Health Service reporting operationally to the Bowen Hospital Director of Nursing/ Facility Manager and clinically to Director of Clinical Services.

About our Hospital and Health Service

Mackay Hospital and Health Service ( https://www.mackay.health.qld.gov.au/ )has 6 hospitals, 2 multi-purpose health services and 4 community health centres that employ more than 3,700 staff. The district covers an area of approximately 90,000km2 and provides services to patients and their families in Bowen, Cannonvale, Clermont, Collinsville, Dysart, Glenden, Mackay, Middlemount, Moranbah, Proserpine and Sarina.

Some of our great benefits on offer

• Competitive wages, salary packaging and leave entitlements
• Flexible working arrangements
• A diverse work culture
• Career development
• Professional development opportunities
• Education opportunities, Study and Research
• Paid parental leave
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Discounted Private Health Insurance
• Fitness Passport

 Workforce attraction incentive scheme

You may be eligible to receive the Incentive Scheme 2, the scheme is available to health workers (new and current Qld Health employees) that relocate from intrastate (MM1 to MM2),  interstate or international to come work within our team may receive up to $70,000 in incentive payments under the Queensland Health Workforce Attraction Incentive Scheme (conditions apply). ( https://www.careers.health.qld.gov.au/working-for-us/workforce-attraction-incentive-scheme )