Clinical Director - Oral Health Services - Dentist Level 4
Full-time Permanent
Closes: 06 May 2024
Classification: Dentist Level 4
Salary: $168,761 plus superannuation
Position No: 46933 - 02GYA
Directorate: Canberra Health Services
Advertised (Gazettal date): 10 April 2024
Contact Officer: Kireet Taneja on
Kireet.taneja@act.gov.au
or
(02) 5124 1732
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- 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.
- VISA/Sponsorship for eligible candidates.
- Reimbursement of relocation expenses for interstate candidates (subject to review and approval).
About the Role:
CHS’ Oral Health Services (OHS) currently provides a range of public dental services to children, young people and adults who are eligible for the service. Services are provided at five Community Health Centres across the ACT, and are also provided at a correctional facility, into schools, nursing homes, and other identified sites via three Mobile Dental Clinics. The range of dental services includes preventative dental interventions, health promotion, emergency dental care, restorative dental care, prosthetic dental care, and some orthodontic interventions.
The Clinical Director is an integral position and will provide clinical and professional leadership and have highly developed clinical skills and knowledge of local, and national oral health care systems including current and emerging issues concerning oral health. The Clinical Director will work closely with the Director of OHS to lead service improvement and innovation through high-level clinical management. This also includes working with the Director, and senior clinicians to develop and progress plans and strategies for the OHS (I.e: service promotion; design, development, and implementation of service models; and service enhancements).
Duties:
- Provide high-level clinical, and professional leadership, and management to all the clinical and prosthetic services teams in the OHS.
- Provide clinical operation and workflow management for the OHS including best practice for central clinical rostering.
- Maintain highly developed, appropriate, and contemporary clinical skills, and participate as an active member of the clinical team.
- Assess, plan, evaluate and report on the outcomes of clinical service provision to ensure exceptional quality of care, efficiency, and effectiveness to meet the needs of consumers, and to achieve service objectives and performance measures.
- Develop and implement professional development initiatives, and continuing education programs with an oversight of the clinical education, training, and professional development needs of OHS clinicians.
- Manage OHS clinical governance to ensure compliance with relevant local and national healthcare directives, legislation, policies, and procedures. This includes CHS accreditation, quality assurance and quality improvement initiatives, and credentialing and scope of practice requirements.
- Provide advocacy, and representation of OHS and CHS at relevant internal/external forums, and facilitate the development of strong partnerships with internal/external stakeholders
- Undertake other duties appropriate to this level of classification which contribute to the operation of the organisation
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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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