24589, Several - 02H74

Closes: 08 March 2024

Classification: Registered Nurse Level 2
Salary: $100,957 - $107,000 plus superannuation
Position No: 24589, Several - 02H74
Directorate: Canberra Health Services
Advertised (Gazettal date): 12 April 2024
Contact Officer: Cate Makings on catherine.makings@act.gov.au or (02) 5124 0996.

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What can we offer you:

• City living without the traffic – click here to see why you should live in Canberra.
• Competitive pay rates and excellent working conditions within a tertiary hospital.
• Salary Packaging with many options that provide full fringe benefits tax concessions.
• Flexible working conditions.
• 11.5% Superannuation.
• Scholarships for education support
• Reimbursement of relocation expenses for interstate candidates subject to the hiring managers approval

About the Role:

Are you looking for an exciting and rewarding opportunity to step into a Registered Nurse Level 2 within Canberra Health Services? Now is the time!

Canberra Health Services is the single tertiary teaching hospital for the Australian Capital Territory and surrounding NSW region serving a population in excess of 650 000, and we are expanding! Canberra Hospital is gaining a new 44,000 square metre state-of-the-art Critical Services Building opening in 2024.

The Critical Services Building will be home to a bigger emergency department with dedicated children’s emergency area, more operating rooms, more treatment spaces, and more intensive care beds. It will also have an intraoperative magnetic resonance imaging suite, three new cardiac cath labs, including a hybrid cardiac laboratory and an electrophysiology laboratory. The new building will be one of Australia’s newest and most technologically advanced health care facilities.

Level 2 nurses are required to have a minimum of 4 years’ experience or relevant post graduate qualifications.
They will provide leadership and promote a commitment to exceptional, safe, and quality healthcare. Remaining flexible to accommodate change and provide responsive services to meet patient’s, unit and organisational needs.

We have various vacancies across the following areas:

Emergency Department (ED)
Annually, the Emergency Department can have up to and more than 85,000 presentations.
For more information regarding the position duties click here for the Position Description.

Intensive Care Unit (ICU)
The Intensive Care Unit is a 39-bed level 3 Territory Referral Centre, which admits over 1900 patients a year.
For more information regarding the position duties click here for the Position Description.

Cardiac Cath Lab (CCL)
The Cardiac Catheter Laboratory is a part of the Cardiology services at the Canberra Hospital, providing diagnostic and interventional coronary care for emergent and elective patients.
For more information regarding the position duties click here for the Position Description.

Perioperative Services
The Peri-Operative Unit at Canberra Hospital consists of a Day of Surgery Admissions (DOSA) Unit, Operating Theatres covering a wide range of surgical specialities including obstetrics, Post Anaesthetic Care Unit (PACU) and an Extended Day Surgery Unit (EDSU) together with several out of areas procedural/invasive specialty areas.

For more information on the specific position duties for each speciality, clink the links below for the position descriptions.

• PACU Position Description.
• EDSU Position Description.
• Anaesthetic Position Description.
• Scrub Scout (circulating/instrument) Position Description.

Please note prior to commencement successful candidates will be required to:

• Undergo a pre-employment National Police Check.
• Comply with Canberra Health Services Occupational Assessment, Screening and Vaccination policy.

For more information on this position and how to apply “click here”

Canberra Health Services (CHS) is focussed on the delivery of high quality, effective, person centred care. It provides acute, sub-acute, primary and community‐based health services, to the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) and surrounding region. More information can be found on the CHS website.

Our Vision: creating exceptional health care together
Our Role: to be a health service that is trusted by our community
Our Values: Reliable, Progressive, Respectful and Kind

CHS is committed to workforce diversity and to creating an inclusive workplace. As part of this commitment, we welcome applications from all diversity groups. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people with disability and people who identify as LGBTQIA+ are particularly encouraged to apply.

Canberra Hospital Expansion Project – CHS is constructing a new critical services building called ‘Building 5’ which is a 44,000sqm nine storey building specifically designed to deliver state-of-the-art acute clinical services at the Canberra Hospital. Building 5 is the largest healthcare infrastructure project undertaken in the Territory’s history and it represents the largest clinical and operational change program to ever be implemented by Canberra Health Services. Building 5 integrates with a number of existing buildings at the Campus including Building 1 and Building 2, to facilitate a seamless public thoroughfare, patient transportation and back-of-house logistics distribution.

North Canberra Hospital - As of 3 July 2023 Calvary Public Hospital Bruce transitioned to CHS and became North Canberra Hospital. The transition will deliver a health system networked under one provider and will provide increased workforce opportunities for staff at both CHS sites. The ACT Government will be building a new northside hospital on the existing hospital campus in Bruce to meet the growing health care needs of our community, with construction to commence mid-decade providing more beds, increased services, and increased career opportunities.

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Career interest categories:

Healthcare, Medical and Allied Services
Nursing