Nurse Practitioner
- Close date: 8 Nov 2024
- Position title: Nurse Practitioner
- Employment type: Casual
- Location: Throughout Victoria
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Selection Criteria:
- You offer excellent clinical skills and knowledge of contemporary women’s healthcare along with exceptional interpersonal skills and the ability to work alone and in shared care arrangements where required.
- You can travel and live away from home in rural Victorian locations to provide services in the Women’s Health Mobile Clinic
- You must have the training and qualifications to provide IUD insertions, Implanon insertions and Cervical Screening Tests.
- You have completed or are willing to complete:
o cultural safety training with a recognised Aboriginal-led training provider
o LGBTIQA+ cultural awareness and inclusivity training
- clinical education on self-collection cervical screening.
- You will have current Registration and endorsement as a Nurse Practitioner with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA) administered through the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA).
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Position Summary:
BreastScreen Victoria is recruiting Nurse Practitioners to deliver women’s healthcare in our new Women’s Health Mobile Clinic. This 12-month pilot project is trialing a nurse-led mobile clinic that aims to increase access to women’s healthcare for women of all ages living in rural and regional Victoria. The clinic will operate from our mobile breast screening van which provides breast screening to women in rural Victoria.
We are seeking Nurse Practitioners to provide best-practice sexual and reproductive healthcare and general women’s health and wellbeing consultations to clients visiting the Women’s Health Mobile Clinic. The service aims to provide a high-quality, culturally safe and inclusive healthcare experience for women and people with a cervix of all ages.
About the role:
- You will provide services including contraception information and prescriptions, LARC procedures and referrals, STI consultations, medical termination information and MS-2 Step prescription, surgical termination advice and referrals, cervical and bowel screening consultations, and general women’s health and wellbeing consultations.
- You will make referrals to other healthcare services, pathology and radiology providers as required.
- You will be responsible for developing and maintaining shared-care arrangements when required.
Applications will close on 8 November but will be reviewed on receipt.