Clinical Nurse Specialist

Northern Sydney Local Health District; St Leonards; In loco; AUD 112.000 - 116.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Northern Sydney Local Health District is seeking a Clinical Nurse Specialist for the Eating Disorder Service. This permanent full-time role provides evidence-based, consumer-centred nursing care to adults with eating disorders, using telehealth and virtual care models to support discharge planning and collaboration with GPs and primary care teams.

You will lead clinical care, supervise less experienced staff, and ensure high-quality care across the eating disorder spectrum.

Competenze

• Current registration as a Registered Nurse with AHPRA and post-registration qualifications.
• Advanced clinical knowledge in assessment, diagnosis and treatment of eating disorders using evidence-based interventions.
• Ability to utilise advanced clinical reasoning, advocacy and care planning for adults with eating disorders.

Mansioni

• Provide direct nursing care via telehealth and virtual care models to adults with eating disorders and their families.
• Lead clinical practice, supervise less experienced clinicians across inpatient, community and primary care settings.
• Support screening, assessment and treatment, and liaise with clinicians, consumers and carers to access appropriate care.

Conoscenze

Clinical nursing

Telehealth

Trauma-informed care

Formazione

Post-registration qualifications in Eating Disorders

Descrizione del lavoro

Join our compassionate, multidisciplinary team as a Clinical Nurse Specialist in our Eating Disorder Service, where you'll play a vital role in providing evidence-based, consumer‑centred eating disorder care.

Employment Type

Permanent Full Time

Position Classification

Clinical Nurse Specialist Grade 2

Remuneration

$2,458.90 - $2,539.80 per week

Hours Per Week

38

Requisition ID

REQ706050

Who we are

We are a health service that touches thousands of lives across the Northern Sydney Local Health District, together as a team of like-minded people. We are passionate, driven and have the skills and knowledge to care for our patients whilst creating the best services possible. Our teams have meaningful, interesting and rewarding work everyday. We challenge and nurture each other, sharing our knowledge and experience so that we can deliver better care for everyone. There’s a real sense of belonging here because we value and respect our patients, employees, and teams’ voices. You’ll feel a real privilege being a trusted caregiver in our patients, their families, their carers, and our communities’ lives.

NSLHD is proud of our diverse and inclusive workplaces, a place where health care professionals can thrive and feel they belong. We are committed to ensure that all our people feel respected and participate safely within a work environment without aggression, sexual harassment, discrimination and racism.

Where you'll be working

NSLHD Eating Disorder Service

What You'll Be Doing

The Adult Eating Disorder Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) works as part of the NSLHD Virtual Eating Disorder Service to provide trauma informed, culturally responsive, evidenced based, direct nursing care and consultation to adult consumers (≥18 years) with an eating disorder and their families/carers, living in or admitted to NSLHD services. In particular, the CNS will utilise telehealth and virtual care models to provide a post discharge service to consumers and their families presenting to NSLHD services; support GPs and primary care clinicians in the screening, assessment and treatment of eating disorders; act as a liaison point for clinicians, consumers and their families/carers to navigate accessing appropriate care and provide a specialist nursing service to consumers within the NSLHD Eating Disorder Service. The CNS also provides clinical leadership, support and supervision of less experienced clinicians within NSLHD inpatient, community and primary care settings, to achieve high quality care across the eating disorder spectrum of care.

People of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander background are encouraged to apply.

Candidates Will Need To Meet The Following Criteria

• Current registration as a Registered Nurse with the Australian Health Practitioners' Regulation Authority (AHPRA) and relevant post-registration qualifications and at least three (3) years full time equivalent clinical experience working with adult consumers with Eating Disorders or such other qualifications or relevant equivalent experience.
• Demonstrated advanced clinical knowledge in the assessment, diagnosis and treatment of people with feeding and eating disorders using evidenced based interventions. In particular, demonstrated knowledge of the use of CBT‑E, Family Based Therapy, trauma informed care, telehealth and virtual models of care, and delivery of group therapies in treatment and meal support.
• Demonstrated ability to utilise advanced clinical reasoning, advocacy and care planning skills to provide and organise appropriate health care for adult consumers with eating disorders and their families/carers.

This is a NSW Health Category A position which requires immunisation and screening for certain diseases. The full list of requirements are outlined in the NSW Health OASV Policy (Page 11). You will be required to complete the OASV Undertaking/ Declaration Form and TB Assessment Tool during the recruitment process. Please upload this with your application along with any other vaccination evidence that you may have.

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Applications Close: 17 November 2026