At Congress, your graduate experience allows you to learn and develop in a safe, supportive environment supported by an integrated primary health care team.
Applications being accepted now!
Primary health care allows you to work with patients to prevent illness through health checks, health education and a holistic approach to service provision. That means you can help improve the wellbeing of the people you care for and not just respond to sickness.
Nurses play a central role in the delivery of team-based and multi-disciplinary care, particularly for patients with chronic and complex conditions.
The Early Career Nurse Program- Central Australia (Graduate Program) consists of a 2-year full- time program that offers two distinctive clinical pathways. Employment is offered on a full-time basis (37.5 hours per week) Monday to Friday.
A supportive and safe educational environment has been created to ensure positive learning outcomes are achieved to allow continued professional development and emphasis on clinical up-skilling through hands-on clinical practice in addition to formal training and recommended post-graduate study opportunities.
Working with Central Australian Aboriginal Congress not only offers rewarding career options, but a wide range of employee benefits, including:
The PHN Northern Territory Health Professional Relocation Grant is available to assist and support health professionals relocating to the Northern Territory. This grant can help with the costs of things like household removals, flights, transport and other related expenses.
In addition, candidates relocating for the program will receive rent assistance of up to $200 per week throughout their two year contract!
Two distinctive clinical pathways are on offer within the graduate program, which enables an excellent transition to practice in either Primary Health Care or Remote Primary Health Care.
A structured 2-year supportive program, designed to provide support and education to ease the transition into practice and allow for professional and personal development in a Primary Health Care Clinic. This pathway is designed for graduates to obtain the skills and knowledge necessary to work competently throughout clinics, with the view of gaining exposure and skills in a specialty area. This pathway includes:
Primary Health Care rotation in Town/Urban Clinic (12 months)
Alice Springs Hospital rotation (6 months) in one of:
(Note: rotation area is determined by hospital)
Speciality Rotation (6 months)
Remote work can be very rewarding. Accommodation is provided in community, along with access to transport to and from the community on days off (by arrangement). While working in remote communities, your roster will include on-call shifts which are well supported by remote area nurses (RANs) and doctors on site and via the phone.
Check out Congress’ remote clinics.
A structured two year supportive program, designed to provide support and education to ease the transition into practice and allow for professional and personal development in Primary Health care with a view of continuing onto remote area nursing, this pathway ensure graduates have the appropriate skills and experience to transition into the remote environment. This pathway includes:
Primary health care rotation in town clinic (6 months)
Alice Springs Hospital rotation (6 months) in one of:
(Note: rotation area is determined by hospital)
Remote Primary Health Care Clinic (12 months: 2 x 6 month rotations in two different remote clinics)
This course aims to prepare health professionals new to remote contexts to work with the people and professionals of Remote Areas to keep remote and indigenous people well and manage their health. It aims to provide education at a foundational level across three major content areas that underpin practice within the discipline of remote health.
The remote context- an inseparable work and living environment characterised by unique cultural, social, economic, geographical, and climate conditions.
Public Health- a population based framework for planning, developing, managing and evaluating initiatives and programs to promote health and prevent disease.
Application to practice- inter-professional and profession specific skills, knowledge and attributes required for competent, confident, accountable remote and indigenous health practice within primary health Care.
Complete two core topics:
Complete two elective topics from the following
To be eligible to apply for the 2023 Early Career Nurse Program – Central Australia you must:
Positions in the program are limited.
You must apply online. In your application you are required to provide the following:
As a new graduate nurse, how would you contribute to and support Congress’ values and vision while delivering care in the cultural context of Central Australia?
(You can learn about Congress’ values and vision here)
Note: All documents (ie. resume, cover letter, placement reports, transcript) should be uploaded in a single file.
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