Selection Criteria

- Specialist Expertise:
- Competency and experience in clinical nursing assessment and ability to work as a sole health qualified 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.

Role Working

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.

Responsibilities

- Implement nursing interventions including referral as appropriate via the child's parent or guardian to health professionals/agencies
- Provide a follow-up service, which ensures children with health-related problems receive appropriate assistance




- Carry out health promotion/education within program guidelines and act as a health resource to the school community
- Act as an advocate for children and promote child health as a member of an inter‑disciplinary team, liaising effectively with parents teachers, health, welfare and education personnel
- Maintain accurate electronic records for assessment, referral, planning and implementation.
- Liaise with the Secondary School Nurse where appropriate, to support the transition of students from primary to secondary school, particularly for those students identified as having special needs, or at risk.
- Observe safe working practices and protect own and others health and safety

Who May Apply

- Essential: Current registration as a Division 1 Registered Nurse with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Authority.
- Essential: Current Victorian Working with Children Check.
- Essential: Current Victorian Drivers Licence.
- Desirable: Post graduate qualification and/or demonstrated expertise in paediatric health, school health, community health, public health and/or primary health care.

Diversity and Inclusion

The department is committed to diversity and inclusion and developing a workforce that is representative of the community we service. We value diversity and inclusion in all forms - culture, gender, religion, ethnicity, LGBTIQA+, disability and neurodiversity. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander candidates are strongly encouraged to apply for roles within the Department. The Department recognises that the provision of safe, respectful and inclusive workplaces is essential to high performance and promotes flexible work and diversity across all schools and Department workplaces. It is

📌 Primary School Nurse (Warrnambool)
🏢 Government schools
📍 Warrnambool