The Townsville Hospital and Health Service vision is world-class healthcare for northern Queensland.
Our purpose is `great care every day'.
About your opportunity:
Permanent full-time / Location: Townsville
Prison Health Services operates between the Townsville Men's Correctional Centre (TCC) and Townsville Women's Correctional Centre (TWCC). The clinical nurse is responsible for providing advanced primary health care to the patients within the prison setting. Responsibilities include medication administration, health education, chronic disease case management, responding to emergencies and working within a multidisciplinary team to provide equitable and safe care as well as project and portfolio management and mentoring of students and staff.
The OST program works across the Townsville Men's Correctional Centre and Townsville Women's Correctional Centre. The program is an opiate addiction treatment program and harm minimisation program. All Registered and Clinical Nurses are responsible for the delivery of safe care to prisoners with an opiate addiction, this includes – schedule 8 medication delivery, clinical assessments, and addiction case management. The CN OST will in addition support the Nurse Practitioner in the management of the clients on the OST program. Addiction or drug and alcohol experience will be advantageous.
The purpose of the Clinical Nurse is to deliver timely holistic client care according to scope of practice, within a primary health care model in a prison health setting as prescribed by policy, clinical standards, clinical guidelines and protocols, workplace instructions and the Corrective Services Act 2006.
What's on Offer?
Candidate Requirements:
Please refer to the Role Description for further details.
Why make the change?
Townsville is a great place to live - with the natural wonders of Magnetic Island a short boat ride away and Townsville being one of the main gateways to the Great Barrier Reef.
Townsville offers great cafe culture at the strand with plenty of great walking tracks around the region, It is a dynamic neighbourhood with access to a variety of top-notch educational facilities, cutting-edge medical facilities, affordable housing, distinctive retail stores, great events, and a wide range of recreation opportunities.
Discover all Townsville has to offer! ( https://www.townsville.qld.gov.au/about-townsville )
Interested?
Contact: Bryan Wilkinson on 07 4430 5550.
Apply ONLINE by: Tuesday 2 July 2024.
Unsolicited resumes from recruitment agencies will not be accepted.
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Australia ![]() ![]() |
Salary: | As per State Award AUD per year |
Work type: |
Locum Tenens
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PLEASE! No enquiries from Recruitment Agencies or Headhunters. Only direct applications will be considered. |