Description:
• Up to $3,500 for relocation
• Opportunity to be part of a passionate team
• Salary package to the value range of $100-120,000 dependent on experience plus super
Healthy Living NT seeks the services of Diabetes Nurse Educators (Registered Nurses) to join its diabetes and cardiac education team, based in Darwin.
There are multiple positions available which involve work in urban and remote locations. Positions can be part or full time.
Why Healthy Living?
Healthy Living NT is committed to working for the interests of people diagnosed with diabetes, heart disease and related chronic conditions living in the Northern Territory and to the provision of high-quality services and health promotion to their members and clients.
What's in it for you?
• Salary up to $120,000; dependent on experience + super
• Remote allowance
• 5 weeks annual leave plus Christmas shut-down period as extra leave
• Darwin based role with remote travel
• Up to $3,500 for relocation assistance
• Eligible for professional development grants through NT PHN
• Opportunity to work in remote communities and utilise your skills and experience
What's the role?
Working in coordination with a small multidisciplinary team, the successful Diabetes Nurse Educator will provide expert delivery of safe, evidence based clinical care, with effective education, to people with Type 1, Type 2, GDM and IGT diabetes. The role acts as a resource to deliver educational programs to other health professionals and clients, whilst overseeing the identification and development of diabetes educational resources for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and their health professionals.
Responsibilities include, but not limited to-
• Providing individual and group education and counselling for people with diabetes, their families or support networks
• Travelling to rural and remote regional areas of the Northern Territory to provide diabetes education in coordination with other medical and allied health staff
• Overseeing the identification and the development of diabetes educational resources
• Liaising with, and referring to, General Practitioners and other health professionals
• Assisting the Cardiac Educator in the delivery of cardiac rehabilitation programs
Is this role right for you?
• Tertiary qualifications in Diabetes Education, with a preference for Credentialed Diabetes Educator status or working towards
• Current AHPRA registration as a Registered Nurse
• Demonstrated clinical experience in the delivery of comprehensive diabetes education
• Well-developed understanding of adult education learning principles, presentation skills, stages of behaviour change and group education
• Demonstrated ability to participate in planning, implementing and evaluating education programs, resource development and health promotion activities
This position will be required to:
• Occasionally work non-standard hours
• Undertake travel within the NT, including driving where necessary and
• Some limited interstate travel
• a satisfactory Police Criminal check
• a Working with Children check (Ochre card)
• a Northern Territory Driver’s License.
Want to find out more about this opportunity? Please contact Lauren Lester on 08 8982 1002 or email recruitment@ntphn.org.au