Clinical Nurse Specialist Grade 2 – Palliative Care Community in Warrawong

With your skills and experience, you can contribute to the millions of ways we're enriching health, and develop your career as part of the largest health organisation in Australia. The Clinical Nurse Specialist Grade 2 (CNS 2) is a Registered Nurse who applies a high level of clinical nursing knowledge, experience and skills in providing complex nursing care directed towards a specific area of practice, a defined population or defined service area, with minimum direct supervision.

The CNS 2 is responsible for the provision of high quality, professional nursing care that is underpinned by compassion and consistent with NSW Health and ISLHD values, policies and standards. The CNS 2 is required to work to their scope of practice and retains the responsibility and accountability for their personal and professional actions. All staff are expected to act as an appropriate and effective role model, promoting a culture that supports practices that reflect the NSW Health CORE values of Collaboration, Openness, Respect and Empowerment through demonstrated behaviours and interactions with patients, clients and employees.

The CNS 2 Palliative Care will work within the ISLHD Community Palliative Care Service to provide patient centred palliative care for people with advanced life limiting illnesses, their families and carers. Working within a multidisciplinary team, the role provides direct care to clients and their caregivers in the home environment and works with primary care, community based services, other specialist services or clinicians, aged care facilities and group homes. The role requires a commitment to palliative care and the ability to work independently in the community with guidance and support from senior palliative care clinicians, providing effective leadership, supervision and clinical support to junior clinicians or community health nurses.

Responsibilities include palliative care triage, assessment, symptom management and ongoing care planning and nursing care.

Essential requirements:

• Applicable vaccination requirements for a Category A role
• Working With Children Check (WWCC)
• Current AHPRA Registration with relevant post-registration qualification and at least 3 years’ experience working in the clinical area of their specified post-graduate qualification, or such other qualifications or equivalent experience deemed appropriate
• Valid NSW Drivers Licence

ISLHD is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. ISLHD acknowledges that our health district is located on the unceded lands of the Aboriginal people who are the Traditional Custodians of the NSW South Coast.