About the role
COMPASSION | ACCOUNTABILITY | INTEGRITY | RESPECT
About us
Cassowary Area Community Health delivers person-centred community-based healthcare services to people living across the Cassowary Area including Babinda, Innisfail, Tully and Mission Beach and surrounds. The service focus is promoting health self-management, maintaining independence, reducing avoidable hospital admissions, and improving quality of life through a multidisciplinary team approach including Nursing, Allied Health, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workers, and Child Health professionals.
Cairns and Hinterland Hospital and Health Service covers an area of 142,900 square kilometres. We go as far as Tully in the south, Cow Bay in the north and Croydon in the west.
About you
In your new role you will....
- Provide advanced child and family health nursing care that promotes healthy development, strengthens family capacity, and supports early identification and intervention through clinic, community, and home-based services.
- Lead and coordinate the delivery of contemporary, family-centred care, ensuring services are safe, effective, culturally responsive, and aligned with best practice standards.
- Strengthen community connections and work in partnership with government and non-government organisations to deliver coordinated, accessible, and responsive services for children and families.
- Support a culture of learning by engaging in ongoing professional development, mentoring colleagues, and contributing to the capability development of the nursing workforce.
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What we offer
Cairns and Hinterland Hospital and Health service offer a number of workplace benefits. Besides attractive remuneration, generous superannuation, salary packaging and career development opportunities, we value a healthy work/life balance that allows you take advantage of the sunshine, hiking tracks, swimming spots, reef and rainforest.
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