Clinical Nurse Lactation Consultant (Putting QLD Kids First) - Child

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Role details

The Child, Youth and Family Health at the Mackay Community Health Centre is seeking applications for a Clinical Nurse Lactation Consultant (Putting QLD Kids First) to join their team on a temporary basis.

For information on how to apply and the mandatory requirements for this role, please refer to the attached Role Description.

Your opportunity

This position directly supports the implementation of the Sustained Home Visiting (SHV) Program under the Putting Qld Kids First (PQKF) initiative. The Clinical Nurse Lactation Consultant (Putting Qld Kids First) provides advanced, evidence-based lactation care across the continuum of care, delivering a proactive, coordinated model of support from the antenatal period, through to early postnatal period and onto ongoing community-based care, for families identified through SHV screening. Work as part of the Sustained Home Visiting Program, targeting First Nations Families, young mothers and socially vulnerable families, and working to provide enhanced lactation support as a targeted intervention. The role is responsible for identify women early, providing targeted lactation support across antenatal, postnatal, outpatient, inpatient and community settings, and ensuring continuity of care to optimise breastfeeding outcomes, maternal confidence and infant/child health.

About the Team

The Child Youth and Family Health (CYFH) unit is a primary multi-disciplinary health service which is part of the Mackay Hospital and Health Service. The unit provides services for clients 0-18 years of age and their families. The building is located at Carlyle Community Health Centre in Carlyle Street, Mackay. The service extends offering face to face appointments from Mackay to Sarina, Walkerston and areas of the Pioneer Valley and telehealth appointments for the wider Mackay HHS community. The unit offers client focused screening, monitoring, guidance and education along with appropriate referrals and early interventions. The service offers supports to the child sector within the Carlyle community health facility as well as offering outreach clinics and home visiting. The youth sector is supported within the public high school environments.

About our Hospital and Health Service

Mackay Hospital and Health Service has 6 hospitals, 2 multi-purpose health services and 4 community health centres that employ more than 3,700 staff. The district covers an area of approximately 90,000km2 and provides services to patients and their families in Bowen, Cannonvale, Clermont, Collinsville, Dysart, Glenden, Mackay, Middlemount, Moranbah, Proserpine and Sarina.

Some of our great benefits on offer

• Competitive wages, salary packaging and leave entitlements
• Flexible working arrangements
• A diverse work culture
• Career development
• Professional development opportunities
• Education opportunities, Study and Research
• Paid parental leave
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Discounted Private Health Insurance
• Fitness Passport