Clinical Nurse/Midwife Consultant
Monash Health
Purpose
The Clinical Nurse/Midwife Consultant (CNC) C is an expert nurse or midwife with advanced theoretical and clinical skills who provides clinical resource, clinical advisory/development and undertakes related projects and development activities to meet specified clinical nursing needs in a specialty area. The CNC C position is a clinical leadership role that includes:
- Delivering assessment, consultation and treatment.
- Managing complex cases / caseloads
- oordinating clinical care and providing clinical supervision or leadership as required.
- Working collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams •
- Contributing to strategic planning, team performance, professional development and service improvement activities to continually develop an innovative contemporary health service.
The CNC/CMC C fulfills the CNC/CMC role, and:
- Is the sole Registered Nurse/Midwife in the specialty, or
- Is in charge of a specialty team, or
- Is a clinical consultant who takes referrals from, or delivers the consultancy outside more than one campus/worksite/centre of the health service.
The CNC/CMC D fulfils the CNC/CMC role and who in addition principally consults on a multi-health service or Statewide basis.
The CNC/CMC E fulfils the CNC/CMC role on an interstate or national basis.