Nurse Practitioner – Emergency Department

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Opportunity: We are currently seeking a skilled and dynamic applicant/s for the Nurse Practitioner – Emergency Department position that is available with the East Metropolitan Health Service.

This is a Permanent Part Time Appointment/s at 72 hours per fortnight.

The Nurse Practitioner provides a clinical service in collaboration with other health professionals to diagnose, treat and manage a patient’s health status in accordance with National legislation.

The Nurse Practitioner performs advanced physical assessment, orders diagnostic tests, interprets the results of these tests, initiates referrals to relevant health providers, and prescribes appropriate medications and other therapies as needed.

The Nurse Practitioner provides clinical leadership as appropriate.

The Nurse Practitioner practices within their scope of practice considerate of the Nursing and Midwifery Board’s Nursing Practice Decision Flowchart.

For more information regarding this position, including a thorough breakdown of duties, reporting structures, and criteria used in assessing applicants to the role, we encourage you to refer to the Job Description Form (JDF) attached.

For further job-related

Information: for further information, we encourage you to contact Jane Husain on 08 9391 2110.

Whilst this selection process will initially be used to fill the above vacancy, it may also be used to fill other "similar" vacancies throughout the health service.

In addition to this, should the successful applicant decline or vacate the advertised vacancy, then the next most suitable applicant may also be selected from this process.

Both of these options remain valid for a period of twelve (12) months from when the authorised delegate endorses the recruitment decision.

Area Profile

Armadale Health Service (AHS) is a general hospital focused on providing a range of high-quality health care services in the community.

The hospital, which is part of the Armadale Kalamunda Group, is equipped with an Emergency Department and Intensive Care Unit and provides high-quality general medical and surgery services, rehabilitation, maternity, paediatric and neonatal, mental health, renal medicine and dialysis services and ambulatory

Employee Benefits

• Professional Development Opportunities and Study leave/assistance.
• Flexible working arrangements.
• Flexible leave arrangements.
• Other professional and location-based allowances.
• 12% employer contributed superannuation into a fund of your choice. For information on superannuation click here.
• Fitness Passport- discounted access to select gyms, pools, and fitness centres across Australia
• Discounted Smart Rider for travel to work

Eligibility to Apply

To be eligible for appointment, applicants must have valid Australian work rights.

This includes visa holders.

Permanent appointments may be made to individuals who hold citizenship, permanent residency, or visas that enable ongoing employment in Australia.

Other Conditions

• WA Health engages staff in positions of trust and responsibility.

WA Health policies require applicants to undertake a criminal records screening and integrity checking as part of the appointment process.

• As well as undertaking a criminal record screening and integrity checking, you may also be required to undertake a working with children check (if required for the role) and a pre-employment health assessment.
• We may ask referees to comment on your integrity and past demonstration of ethical behaviour.

Please note that adverse information does not necessarily disqualify an applicant but will be considered as part of the appointment process.

• This position is subject to a Western Australian Working With Children (WWC) Check.
• For further information please refer to the WWC website at: https://workingwithchildren. wa. gov. au
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