Royal Women’s Hospital Hiring for Diabetes Educator Job at Melbourne Full Time

Diabetes Educator

Ongoing Position – 16 hours per week

The Royal Women’s Hospital is Australia’s first and largest specialist hospital dedicated to improving the health and wellbeing of newborns and women of all ages. To join the Women’s is to be instrumental in forging progress towards health equity for women from ground-breaking research through to the bedside delivery of multi-disciplinary clinical care.

Creating exceptional experiences is at the heart of everything we do for our patients, their families, and our people across our specialised services within maternity, neonatal and women’s health.

The Diabetes Education Team provides education and support to all women with diabetes with the aim of preventing diabetes complications.

The role of the Diabetes Education Team is to:

• Provide clinical care of all in-patients with diabetes in pregnancy, including women on the Gynaecology and Oncology wards.
• Provide clinical care for women with diabetes on an outpatient basis through outpatient clinics. This care is provided in group sessions and in one-to-one consultations/telehealth.
• Provide teaching and training activities including student lectures, staff in-services, and providing professional training for diabetes educators.
• Provide Diabetes education for women with diabetes.
• Provide and participate in quality activities and research projects to facilitate and maintain best practice particularly in Diabetes in pregnancy.

Your contribution

The Diabetes educator is a clinical expert who is an important member of the Diabetes Service and an integral part of the multidisciplinary TeamCare Team. With the support of the Diabetes Team, the diabetes educator provides and coordinates best practice clinical care for women having maternity care both as an outpatient and inpatient and also provides consultation to non-maternity areas at the Women’s.

Your duties will include (but are not limited to) the following:

• Providing Clinical Care for women with diabetes
• Providing Professional Support, Education and Training
• Participating in Quality Activities and Research
• Building and maintaining professional relationships

About you

To be successful within this role you will need to have:

• Tertiary Qualification as a Diabetes Educator
• Credentials as a Diabetes Educator or be working towards them.
• AHPRA registration as a Registered Nurse Div 1 or Midwife.
• Excellent communication skills and comfort working with varied stakeholders.

Our offering

When you join the Women’s you unite with talented people who share your purpose and unwavering determination to advance health outcomes for all women. You will find a workplace that is collaborative, progressive and passionate about learning and working together in multi-disciplinary teams to ensure you find the exceptional in your everyday.

Our staff benefits program includes salary packaging, on-site car parking and childcare (subject to availability), alongside a range of discounted financial, lifestyle and wellbeing benefits provided by our staff benefit partners. To learn more, please visit: www.thewomens.org.au/careers/why-work-at-the-womens/staff-benefits/

We are proudly Breastfeeding Association accredited. The Women’s is committed to gender equity principles and our people have an awareness of and sensitive approach to violence against women/family violence matters.

The Women’s is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and social inclusion. We welcome applications from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, including those from Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islanders, people with lived experience of disability and people who identify as LGBTI.

It is a policy of the Women’s to provide reasonable adjustments for persons with a disability. If you need assistance or adjustments to fully participate in the application or interview process, please contact the hiring manager listed under ‘Contact Person’

Ready to make the move?

For more information about the position, please see the Position Description attached and apply online by selecting “apply now” below.

All appointments to the Women’s are subject to a satisfactory clearance of Working with Children Check and Police Check.

COVID-19 Vaccination Requirement

Please be aware that in line with the Health Minister’s Covid-19 Mandatory Vaccination Order, all workers at the Women’s regardless of role, will be required to be fully vaccinated (3 doses) for COVID-19 or hold an acceptable medical exemption.

Influenza Vaccination Requirement

In line with the Health Services Amendment (Mandatory Vaccination of Healthcare Workers) Act 2020, some health care workers are now required to have their flu vaccination to work in health care. Evidence of vaccination is required.

As this role fits into category A or B of the departments risk ratings, applicants will be required to have been vaccinated against influenza. Evidence of vaccination is required.

All applicants will be required to provide acceptable evidence of their vaccination status.

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