The Team

The Whittle Ward is a 10-bed specialist palliative care bed unit located in Davey Street on the Repatriation Site connected to the Royal Hobart Hospital (RHH) part of THS South. The Whittle Ward is the only public palliative care unit in Southern Tasmania. With a focus on expert symptom control and delivery of end-of-life care from our multidisciplinary team.

As the major clinical teaching and research centre, RHH works closely with the University of Tasmania and other institutions. All our services work closely together to focus on delivering excellence in healthcare to achieve improved outcomes for our consumers, our workforce, and the Tasmanian community.

The Role

The Clinical Nurse Educator - Palliative Care (CNE) operates as part of a multidisciplinary team delivering palliative care services to patients, their families, and carers across the respective region of Tasmania. The CNE is responsible for:

• Facilitating and supporting the development of nursing team members by planning, promoting, coordinating, implementing,



and evaluating education programs in palliative care.

• Providing professional advanced clinical leadership and expertise in the delivery of clinical advice, assessment and interventions based on best practice in the health care management of people with a life limiting illness.

• Contributing to learning and development programs for other health disciplines and volunteers.

Duties:

• Facilitate and support the development of the palliative care multidisciplinary workforce by planning, promoting, coordinating, implementing, and evaluating palliative care workforce development and educational programmes both to the palliative care workforce and other providers relevant to this practice setting.

• Facilitate ongoing professional development within a learning and research culture, promoting patient centred inter-professional learning, including where delegated contributing to relevant groups and committees.

• Ensure the maintenan

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