Purpose of the Clinical Nurse Educator role

The Clinical Nurse Educator plays a critical role in the professional development of direct care workers, nurses, and registered nurses. This role is responsible for maintaining and advancing nursing practice, complex care skills and building the clinical competence of staff thereby ensuring safe and effective care delivery. This is a parental leave cover for 6 months. This role is a great opportunity for a skilled nurse to gain valuable experience as an educator and develop leadership in clinical practice.

Why Join Team Achieve?

Achieve Australia takes deliberate steps to hire people from a wide range of backgrounds and life experiences. We believe this diversity of people makes Achieve a great place to work and better able to deliver quality services to the people we support. We are passionate about inclusion for everyone – our staff and the people we support. We encourage people of all ages, cultural backgrounds, abilities and those who identify with a disability to apply for our roles. Your unique skills and ideas are highly valued by us. Achieve is committed to providing equal opportunities for all.

At Achieve Australia, we put the people we support at the centre of everything we do. As a ‘for purpose’ organisation, we're more than just a workplace. We are a community passionate about bringing inclusion to life for people with disability.

What reasonable adjustments can we make to our recruitment process to welcome you?

We want to meet the best candidates for our jobs. Please email [email protected] using the subject line: Clinical Nurse Educator enquiry via EthicalJobs or call us on 02 9066-5550 to discuss any reasonable adjustments we can make so you can take part in our recruitment process and/or visit one of our sites.

Role Responsibilities:

• Provide hands on educational support and clinical teaching to nursing and care staff as well as clinical induction for new staff.
• Promote a high standard of evidence based clinical care to all clients, through dissemination of current best practice knowledge.
• Contribute to regular training needs analysis and approved clinical education plans to meet requirements of Achieve Australia’s clients, including Specialist and Complex Disability Care, Chronic Disease Management, Mental Health and Palliative/End of Life Care.
• Act as a subject matter expert in support of our Learning and Development Team in the planning and delivery of an annual calendar of professional development and clinical education activities.

To be successful in this role, you will need:

• Current AHPRA registration.
• Experience in educating, mentoring and supporting staff in the workplace.
• Sound clinical knowledge and demonstrate experience nursing care across conditions and populations and a fundamental understanding of disability rights and legislation.
• Experience in nursing skills such as catheter insertion, PEG feeding, bowel care and medication management.
• Demonstrate advanced written and verbal communication skills.
• Evidence of professional leadership and updating of own clinical knowledge and competencies to ensure education and training delivery is in line with current best practice.
• Certificate IV in Workplace Training and Assessment or equivalent is desirable.
• Ability to travel to various locations across Greater Sydney.

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What Sets Us Apart

Our Commitment

At Achieve, it's more than a job. Our dedicated staff make a positive difference to the people we support each day and in turn, we support our staff. We value our team in an environment where everyone can proudly be themselves. We embrace diversity, recognising the richness that different life experiences, languages, and cultures bring to our clients and to Achieve as an organisation.

Great employee benefits

• Salary packaging options mean you keep more of your take home pay before tax.
• Car leasing is another salary packaging option.
• Free personal and financial counselling for you and your family.
• Range of paid leave and flexible work arrangements.
• Support for a healthy lifestyle, including fitness memberships and wellness programs.
• Regular training and support to succeed in your role.
• A strong record of promoting from within.

Do you need more information?

Role description – If you would like a copy of the role description, please email our team on [email protected] using the subject line: Clinical Nurse Educator enquiry via EthicalJobs. 

About Achieve:

Visit the Achieve Australia website to learn more about us.

Do you have any questions about this role or need any support applying for the role? email [email protected] or call 02 9066-5550 and we will be in contact with you.

Achieve Australia is committed to safer recruitment practices, which safeguard and promote the welfare of the people we support, and staff are expected to share this commitment. To achieve this, your application may be subject to pre-employment checks including reference checks, a Police check, NDIS Worker Check, Working with Children check, right to work in Australia check. Please note criminal history does not immediately affect employment opportunities.

How to apply:

To register your interest, please click ‘Apply Now’ and provide a resume and cover letter outlining your suitability for the role.