Are you a dynamic nurse leader with a passion for primary health care education? Join APNA as our Nurse Education Support Officer and play a key role in fostering professional growth and development and supporting nurses to improve the health of all Australians!

• Work with a strong, vibrant, growing team
• An exciting opportunity to do great work that has an impact
• Hybrid or remote role
• Substantial salary packaging benefits

About APNA

The Australian Primary Health Care Nurses Association (APNA) is the peak body and professional membership association for the 98,000+ nurses working outside of a hospital setting in Australia.

APNA provides education, representation, advocacy, and support services for primary health care nurses across Australia.

About the role

This full-time hybrid or remote Nurse Education Support Officer role sits within APNA's Health Care Solutions department, working to produce world-class nursing educational content delivered virtually and face-to-face.

They ensure education is kept up to date, contains best practice teaching and is promoted to ensure high utilisation by primary health care nurses. The Nurse Education Support Officer helps ensure our education sessions are evidence-based and best practice for contemporary primary health care nurses.

Responsibilities include:

• Design, develop and deliver education programs that build capability of primary health care nurses, and provide mentorship and guidance to participants fostering a culture of continuous quality learning and improvement.
• Ensure education adheres to best practices for educational design and delivery, including identification of appropriate learning and development curricula and outcomes, and taking into consideration the concept of recognition of prior learning.
• Assist with the development, refinement and implementation of APNA’s career and education strategy, framework and plans.
• Utilise own nursing skills and knowledge to contribute to the content planning, development and delivery of education and resources relevant to nurses working in primary health care in a variety of delivery modalities including online learning.
• Engage with existing and prospective industry stakeholders, government departments and regulators (including AHPRA and NMBA) around key issues and facilitate involvement or inclusion of content in APNA education programs.
• Advocate on key issues impacting nurses in primary health care and engage with government departments, presenting as a credible and professional representative of primary health care nurses.
• Model organisational values and codes of conduct with internal and external stakeholders.

Essential qualifications, skills, education, and experience:

• Relevant undergraduate or postgraduate qualification in nursing
• Current Certificate IV in Training & Assessment
• Experience in education course design and delivery
• Proven excellent oral and written communication and collaboration skills
• Proven success in negotiating and building external partnerships
• Proven content/resource development, presentation, consultation & facilitation skills with the ability to work independently when required.
• An ability to multi-task, meet deadlines and maintain a strong customer service focus

Desirable skills, education, or attributes– summary elements:

• Experience in learning management systems and technology platforms such as Articulate 360, Storyline 360 or Rise 360, or willingness to learn these programs
• Understanding of budgetary requirements
• Contextual understanding of the work and issues in a primary health care setting
• Other undergraduate or postgraduate education in education development, program management, business or another relevant discipline would be highly regarded.

Essential IT competencies

• Microsoft Office applications (Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel)

APNA's mission is to improve the health of Australians through the delivery of quality evidence-based care by a bold and vibrant primary health care nursing workforce. This role is vital to helping APNA succeed in its mission.

APNA’s Values

Better Together – We are passionate and collaborative, fostering an environment where diversity is valued, and all voices are heard.

Positive Disruptor – We are community-minded champions of change, innately curious and always open to innovation and ideas of the future.

Pursue Excellence – We are evidence-based in our approach and hold our stakeholders and each other accountable as we strive for the highest standards of excellence.