Your new role:
As a Registered Nurse at Palen Creek Correctional Centre, you will provide compassionate, person-centred care while working with the healthcare team to achieve positive health outcomes in a unique correctional health setting. You will be responsible for:
Providing comprehensive nursing care through assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of individualised care plans.
Applying clinical judgement, critical thinking and evidence-based practice to manage complex healthcare needs.
Supporting a nurse-led clinic environment delivering primary health care, health promotion services, telehealth support and visiting medical officer clinics.
Collaborating with the healthcare team to promote safe practice, quality improvement and best patient outcomes.
Providing clinical leadership, mentoring and support to colleagues while contributing to a positive learning culture.
Participating in quality initiatives, audits, education activities and continuous improvement opportunities.
Supporting the delivery of healthcare services across the correctional centre and work camp environment.
About you:
You are a motivated and compassionate Registered Nurse who is passionate about delivering quality healthcare and working in a diverse clinical environment. You will bring:
Current registration as a Registered Nurse with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA).
Strong clinical assessment, problem-solving and decision-making skills.
Experience delivering person-centred care and working collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team.
The ability to manage competing priorities while maintaining safe and effective clinical practice.
Strong communication skills with the ability to build positive relationships with patients, colleagues and stakeholders.
A commitment to ongoing professional development, reflective practice and evidence-based nursing.
An interest in developing skills and experience within correctional health nursing.
Advanced Life Support qualification, or commitment to completion.
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What we can offer you:
Flexible working arrangements that support work-life balance and individual needs.
Access to professional development opportunities to grow your nursing capability and career.
The opportunity to expand your clinical experience across primary care, complex health needs and offender health nursing.
You'll have all the benefits of working for Queensland's world-class public health system including generous leave entitlements, attractive salary and remuneration packages, salary packaging and access to relevant professional development allowances and/or leave, study and research assistance, corporate discounts and employee wellness programs.
Palen Creek Correctional Centre
Palen Creek Correctional Centre is situated approximately 100km southwest of Brisbane in the rural community of Rathdowney and is built on 520 acres of land. It is a low security farm facility with prisoners located either on site or off site at work camp. These work camps are in Dirranbandi, St George, Mitchell and Charleville. The work camp programs provide high levels of community reparation, prisoner rehabilitation and reintegration. The facilities at Palen Creek include a Health Clinic, which offers a nurse-led general clinic, primary health promotion services, access to telehealth services when required and provides support to the Opioid Substitution Therapy Program, in addition to visiting medical officer clinics. Palen Creek Correctional Centre has the current capacity for up to 290 prisoners onsite and up to 40 prisoners away at offsite work camp.
INTEGRITY | COMPASSION | ACCOUNTABILITY | RESPECT | ENGAGEMENT | EXCELLENCE
Our values were created by employees for employees to shape our culture and inspire positive interactions in the workplace. Diversity of ideas, skills, traditions, and customs is celebrated as one of our greatest strengths. Having a workforce that reflects and understands the needs and expectations of our community is important to delivering safe, kinder, and more inclusive care.
We recognise our strength comes from the diversity of our people and so we encourage people of all genders, ethnicities, ages, abilities, languages, sexual orientation, and family responsibilities to apply.
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