Primary School Nurse - South Western Victoria Region

- Competency and experience in clinical nursing assessment and ability to work as a sole health professional within schools.
- Demonstrated expertise in adolescent public/school health, community health, health promotion or development paediatrics.
- Demonstrated experience in effective client record management, activity recording, assessment, and care planning.
- Cross Cultural Awareness: Communicate well with, relate to, and see issues from the perspective of people from a diverse range of cultures and backgrounds.
- Communication: Confidently conveys information in a clear and interesting way; considerate of others; able to express own views in a constructive and diplomatic way; develops reports and correspondence for clients and others using clear and readily understood language; writes in a clear, fluent, and concise manner; produce written communications that are appropriate and readily understood by the intended audience; organise information in a logical sequence.
- Analytical, conceptual and information seeking skills: Deal with concepts and complexity comfortably, be intelligent and perceptive, use analytical and conceptual skills to reason through problems, have creative ideas and project how these can link to innovations; translate creative ideas into workplace improvements.
- Service excellence: Constantly looks for continuous improvement opportunities and ways to innovate and encourages others to do the same; makes specific changes in work methods to improve outcomes, quality and timeliness of service.

Specialist Expertise

- Competency and experience in clinical nursing assessment and ability to work as a sole health professional within schools.




- Demonstrated expertise in adolescent public/school health, community health, health promotion or development paediatrics.
- Demonstrated experience in effective client record management, activity recording, assessment, and care planning.

Cross Cultural Awareness

- Communicate well with, relate to, and see issues from the perspective of people from a diverse range of cultures and backgrounds.

Communication

- Confidently conveys information in a clear and interesting way; considerate of others; able to express own views in a constructive and diplomatic way; develops reports and correspondence for clients and others using clear and readily understood language; writes in a explicit, fluent, and concise manner; produce written communications that are appropriate and readily understood by the intended audience; organise information in a logical sequence.

Analytical, conceptual and information seeking skills

- Deal with concepts and complexity comfortably, be intelligent and perceptive, use analytical and conceptual skills to reason through problems, have creative ideas and project how these can link to innovations; translate creative ideas into workplace improvements.

Service excellence





- Constantly looks for continuous improvement opportunities and ways to innovate and encourages others to do the same; makes specific changes in work methods to improve outcomes, quality and timeliness of service.

Working as part of the School Nursing Team, the primary responsibility of this role is to offer a universal health screening service to children in their first year of primary school in Government, Catholic, Independent schools and English Language Centres. This includes responding to parent's concerns and observations collected through the School Entrant Health Questionnaire (SEHQ), conducting follow‑up health and wellbeing assessments, providing advice to teachers and families and appropriate referral of issues to internal and external agencies. The Primary School Nurse also provides assessment and support for children in years one to six where a concern is identified. The Nurse will also have a role in health promotion and building the capacity of schools to respond to health, wellbeing and learning concerns in children. This may include the development, implementation and evaluation of appropriate health education in response to identified health priorities in schools.

The incumbent is required to practice in accordance with the Department policy and procedure as well as the various Professional Codes, Guidelines and Registration Standards set by Australian Health Practitioners Regulation Authority.

Selection Criteria

- Specialist Expertise:
- Competency and experience in clinical nursing assessment and ability to work as a sole health professional within schools.
- Demonstrated expertise in adolescent public/school health, community health, health promotion or development paediatrics.
- Demonstrated experience in effective client record managemen

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