POSITION DESCRIPTION
Position Title: Anaesthetic Clinical Nurse Educator
Position Code:
Department: Education Department and Perioperative Department
Reporting To: Education Manager in collaboration with the Perioperative Services Manager
Terms: Part Time
Remuneration: WPH Nurses and Midwives Enterprise Agreement 2021-2024
1. POSITION SUMMARY
The Education Team at Wyvern Private Hospital (WPH) provides hospital wide education that values,
supports, empowers and cares for all nursing, allied health and ancillary staff and also meets
licencing and accreditation requirements. The Anaesthetic Clinical Nurse Educator is part of the
Education team and provides a high standard of training, clinical support and assessment to all
anaesthetic nurses in the Perioperative Department at WPH.
2. KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES
The main accountability of the Anaesthetic Care Clinical Nurse Educator is to provide education,
clinical support, training and assessment to all Anaesthetic nurses in the Perioperative Department at
WPH.
Specifically, the CNE is accountable:
- To contribute to the WPH culture, vision and mission.
- To collaborate with the hospital education team and Perioperative Services Manager to assess,
plan, develop and evaluate clinical training and assessment ensuring it is relevant, suitable and
based in current industry standards within the surgical and rehabilitation nursing specialties in
order to meet learning gaps and the operational and strategic needs within the Anaesthetic
clinical setting.
- To implement the Anaesthetic orientation program providing orientation to all new Anaesthetic
nurses and ancillary staff as well as students and volunteers describing the roles and
responsibilities for safety and quality.
- To implement structured Anaesthetic education programs identifying learning needs and achieving
realistic learning experiences utilising adult learning principles and a range of educational and
learning methods to facilitate the development of individuals ensuring they deliver patient care
without compromise.
- To implement the Anaesthetic continued professional development program providing structured
learning opportunities to anaesthetic nurses, allied health and ancillary staff.
- To implement the Anaesthetic assessment program providing structured assessment that ensures
competence of nurses and ancillary staff.
- To provide clinical support, mentorship and supervision to nurses and allied health utilising
advanced clinical knowledge, skills and attitudes within the anaesthetic clinical setting and make
learning adjustments when required.
