COMPASSION | ACCOUNTABILITY | INTEGRITY | RESPECT

About us:

The Adult Community Health Service provides multidisciplinary, person-centred care across a range of community-based programs and clinical services. These include Care Coordination, Community Rehabilitation, Post-Acute Care, Rapid Response Falls, the Queensland Ambulance Service Falls Co-Responder service, Pulmonary Rehabilitation, Persistent Pain Management, Refugee Health, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Worker services.

The multidisciplinary workforce includes nursing, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workers, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, social work, psychology, speech pathology, dietetics and other clinical and support roles. Services are delivered across the Cairns region through a combination of clinic-based, home-based, outreach and community care models, operating from multiple service sites including Cairns North, Edmonton and Smithfield Community Health Centres and the Cairns South Health Facility.

The service works in close partnership with consumers, families and carers, acute and outpatient services, primary care providers, General Practitioners, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health services, community organisations and non-government service providers. The service supports consumers to manage their health and wellbeing, improve functional independence, reduce the risk of avoidable hospital presentation or admission, and facilitate timely discharge, integrated care and continuity of care within the community.

About your opportunity:

In this position you will....

Coordinate, plan, implement and evaluate individualised care, including appropriate referrals,



follow-up and care coordination for clients with complex health needs.

Use effective communication strategies with clients, families and internal and external stakeholders, including the appropriate use of qualified interpreters and translated health information.

Undertake comprehensive refugee health nursing assessments for newly arrived refugees and humanitarian entrants, considering migration history, family and social circumstances, current and past health conditions, mental health, trauma experiences and the social determinants of health.

Ensure consumers, families and staff are treated fairly and with respect and understanding regardless of cultural, religious, ethnic or linguistic background.

For more information about this role, please refer to the attached Role Description.

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Vaccine Preventable Diseases (VPD) evidence as required for your employment in accordance with legislation/government policy and Directives.

What we offer:

Cairns and Hinterland Hospital and Health service offer a number of workplace benefits. Besides attractive remuneration, generous superannuation, salary packaging and career development opportunities, we value a healthy work/life balance that allows you take advantage of the sunshine, hiking tracks, swimming spots, reef and rainforest.

Learn what it's like to work with us, in an inclusive and supportive work environment.

Discover our agile and culturally diverse region through community and lifestyle.

Listen to what some of our staff have to say about working in our regions.

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📌 Clinical Nurse (Refugee Health Nurse), Adult Community Health Service - Cairns (North Queensland)
🏢 Queensland Government
📍 North Queensland