Area Services
Currently Available at Northern Sydney Central Coast Health.
APAC
APAC NSCCH is an acute substitution and post acute care service working as a multi-disciplinary team. The services aim is to provide evidenced base care in the patient’s home, hostel, nursing home, clinic or work environment. APAC care is provided by credentialed staff with fully accredited APAC NSCCH area approved Clinical Guidelines and Operational Policies. Clients are admitted to APAC and then provided with the appropriate treatment and care until resolution of their acute phase or by transitioning them onto various other health and support agencies in the community for ongoing care. The post acute component of APAC provides Acute or Chronic patients with treatment, education and support to live with their illness thus reducing hospital unplanned admissions and number of admission per year.
What attracts & keeps a Nurse working with APAC?
- Working in highly skilled Multidisciplinary supportive Team
- Independence – autonomous yet working within a team
- Holistic Assessment caring focus for people within their own environment
- Evidenced Based Practice & Guideline driven care
- Commonwealth Health & Aging Accredited service
- Variety of medical & surgical cases including specialisation
- United & innovative teamwork & roster flexibility
- Very high patient satisfaction with APAC care
- Very high staff satisfaction
- Management that is understanding and supportive
- Professional opportunities for development in career
- Working in the developing Hospital / Community interface
- Working from different sites and variety in this
- Having experts in Respiratory/Breast/Cardiac
- Never two days the same in APAC
- Outcome & data responsive
For further information contact Area Manager APAC on (02) 9926 7292
Drug and Alcohol
NSCCH Area Drug and Alcohol provide a range of treatment options for individuals and families affected by alcohol, drugs and gambling. Services include:
- Intake, advice and assessment
- Counseling services
- Inpatient and outpatient detoxification programs
- Consultation and liaison services to all NSCCH hospitals.
- Opioid Treatment programs
- Cannabis treatment clinic
- Residential rehabilitation program and housing program
- Magistrates Early Referral Into Treatment Program
- Community health promotion, outreach education and prevention
- Specialist D&A medical services
- Support and education to other health professionals such as GPs
All services offer a great range of opportunities for nursing staff to work in supportive environments and in multidisciplinary teams.
For further information please call (02) 9926 7767
Mental Health Services
The NSCCH Mental Health Service provides the full range of contemporary mental health services to all age groups and is strongly committed to:
- Being caring, compassionate, respectful, & consumer focused in everything we do.
- Providing high quality, safe & evidence based care.
- Being a learning organization that constantly strives to improve practice & achieve best value from its resources.
- Valuing our staff by:
- Ensuring safe workloads and working environments;
- Ensuring flexible rostering practices;
- Providing a strong career pathway for both Registered and Enrolled Nurses;
- Providing professional development opportunities through clinical supervision, educational programs, post-graduate mental health courses for registered and enrolled nurses (at no cost to the employee), preceptor and orientation programs. All clinical skills development are supported by Clinical Nurse Educators & Clinical Nurse Consultants.
The service has formal links to 2 major Universities.
For further information please call (02) 9887 5792
Did you know? There is something for everyone in NSCCH!
