The Clinical Nurse Coordinator is responsible for the coordination, review, and management of all referrals to the Palliative Care Unit (PCU), ensuring timely, clinically appropriate, and patient-centered access to inpatient palliative care services. The role provides expert clinical leadership in assessing referrals, liaising with referring teams and outlying hospitals regarding admission suitability, and ensuring comprehensive, safe, and effective clinical handovers.

Reporting to the Nursing Unit Manager (NUM) Patient Flow and working closely with the NUM Palliative Care, the Clinical Care Coordinator facilitates effective patient flow through the PCU by coordinating admissions, transfers, and discharges. The role participates in case conferences, supports discharge planning, and collaborates with palliative care specialists, the Palliative Care Clinical Nurse Consultant (CNC), the Community Palliative Care Team (CPCT), and multidisciplinary stakeholders to ensure continuity of care across inpatient and community settings.

The Clinical Care Coordinator is also responsible for completing and reviewing death reviews for all deaths occurring within the PCU within the required timeframes, contributing to clinical governance, quality improvement, and safe, high-quality palliative care delivery.

What you bring

• Ability to work within the Mission and Values of Calvary Health Care Kogarah
• Relevant post-registration qualifications and at least 3 years’ experience working in the clinical area of their specified post-graduate qualification, or such other qualifications or equivalent experience deemed appropriate.
• Demonstrated ability to manage complex clinical care and service delivery issues and problem solve through the development and use of clinical management plans.
• Demonstrated ability to exercise extended autonomy of decision making while working as part of a multidisciplinary team and apply professional and ethical boundaries when dealing with complex situations.
• Demonstrated skills in the development and facilitation of patient and carer education; and ability to mentor and coach nursing staff to enhance professional development
• Demonstrated high level written and verbal communication, interpersonal skills and the ability to identify key messages, issues and concerns when communicating with others.
• Demonstrated experience in leading and initiating activities to improve clinical service delivery and patient clinical outcomes.
• Demonstrated competence in the use of health-related information technology.

For further information please contact Sarojani Pradhan- Nurse Unit Manager Patient Flow and Nursing Workforce on pradhan.pradham@health.nsw.gov.au 

 

 

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