LP8848, Several - 02H6R

Closes: 03 May 2024

Classification: Registered Nurse Level 2
Salary: $100,957 - $107,000 plus superannuation
Position No: LP8848, Several - 02H6R
Directorate: Canberra Health Services
Advertised (Gazettal date): 17 April 2024
Contact Officer: Jody Alexander on jody.alexander@act.gov.au or 0262016806

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What can we offer you:

● City living without the traffic – click her to see why you should live in Canberra.
● Competitive pay rates and excellent working conditions.
● Salary Packaging with many options that provide full fringe benefits tax concessions.
● Flexible working conditions.
● 11.5% Superannuation.

About the Hospital:

North Canberra Hospital (formerly Calvary Public Hospital Bruce) and Clare Holland House are now run and operated by Canberra Health Services (CHS)

This is a significant milestone as the ACT Government moves towards delivering a new billion-dollar hospital on Canberra’s Northside.

The current North Canberra Hospital is a level 4 hospital that provides a range of acute and sub-acute services including community based care to the residents of the northside of Canberra and Southern NSW.   North Canberra Hospital (NCH) is a 270 public hospital located in Canberra’s expanding northside. North Canberra Hospital operates a 24 hour Emergency Department. Inpatient services include general medicine, surgery, maternity, mental health and critical care.

Other service modalities include day surgery, specialist outpatient clinics, Hospital in the Home and the Geriatric Rapid Acute Care Evaluation service that reaches into aged care facilities across the ACT.

The new Northside Hospital will be built on the existing Calvary Hospital campus in Bruce. It will be a modern, state-of-the-art hospital for patients, visitors and its workforce and will provide more beds and increased services. Until then, it's business as usual at the NCH, and we'll keep providing high-quality care to our patients and community.


About the role:

This is a full-time position working a rotating shift roster, including morning, evening, and night shifts across both Banksia and Acacia.  

Under limited direction of the Clinical Nurse Consultant, you will:

• Provide leadership in the provision of high-level person-centred care to people with complex mental health needs consistent with the National Mental Health Standards and Mental Health Nursing Standards.
• Provide clinical nursing expertise and apply specific skills in support of the multidisciplinary team process and liaise with multidisciplinary community teams, General Practitioners, carers, and other agencies.
• Actively apply recovery-based intervention principles.
• Undertake as an active team member the monitoring and evaluation of initiatives to improve the quality of care provided to consumers, and ensure support and supervision are provided to student nurses and student enrolled nurses.
• Undertake clinical supervision and professional development activities and participate in clinical governance systems and processes through quality activities, care evaluation, outcomes measurement and membership of committees and working parties.
• Work within the requirements of the Mental Health Act 2015 and other relevant legislation.
• Provide clinical nursing leadership and be responsible for staff and consumers when in charge of a shift.
• Undertake other duties appropriate to this level of classification which contribute to the operation of the organisation.

About you:

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.

Behavioural Capabilities

• Demonstrated clinical leadership and the ability to develop all members of the team.
• Be able to communicate with influence, particularly with the diverse teams including internal and external parties within acute mental health care.
• Be flexible, adaptable, and able to be comfortable with a changing work environment.

Position Requirements/Qualifications:

Mandatory

• Be registered or eligible for registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA)
• Minimum of two years’ recent experience working as a Registered Nurse.
• The successful applicant will need to be available to work on a seven day a week roster filling morning, evening, and night shifts.
• CHS is leading the drive to digitally transform health service delivery in Australia through the implementation of a territory wide Digital Health Record. Computer literacy skills are required which are relevant to this role as you will be responsible for completing required documentation and becoming a proficient user of the Digital Health Record and/or other Information Technology systems; once proficient, you will need to remain current with changes, updates and contingencies.
• Have an understanding of how the National Safety and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) indicators align with this role.
• Fulfil the responsibilities of this role in alignment to the CHS Exceptional Care Framework, Clinical Governance Framework, Partnering With Consumers Framework and all other related frameworks.

Desirable

• Minimum of 2 years’ recent experience working as a Registered Nurse in an acute mental health facility
• Hold or be working toward Post Graduate qualification in mental health nursing.
• Clinical leadership experience
• Current driver’s licence

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

• Prior to commencing this role, a current registration issued under the Working with Vulnerable People (Background Checking) Act 2011 is required.
• Undergo a pre-employment National Police Check.
• Obtain a Compliance Certificate from OMU (Occupational Medicine Unit) relating to assessment, screening and vaccination processes against specified infectious diseases

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