Intensive Care and Coronary Care Clinical Nurse Consultant
Full-time Temporary with a Possibility of Permanency
Closes: 03 May 2024
Classification: Registered Nurse Level 3.2
Salary: $130,846 plus superannuation
Position No: LP5892 - 02GYR
Directorate: Canberra Health Services
Advertised (Gazettal date): 17 April 2024
Contact Officer: Amanda O’Donnell on
amanda.o'donnell@act.gov.au
or
62016099
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:
The role of the Intensive Care and Coronary Care Clinical Nurse Consultant (CNC) is to provide a coordinated and structured approach for operational nursing within the ICU/CCU. Within the prescribed legislation, the CNC provides proficient clinical, management, quality and safety and education leadership and are responsible for the total patient care and operational activities within the unit. This facilitates the delivery of efficient and evidence based care for patients and families
Under limited direction of the ICU/CCU Assistant Director of Nursing (ADON) you will perform clinical and administrative duties in line with a CNC RN L3.2 role. You will:
- Provide leadership and be responsible for the coordination of total patient care activities within ICU/CCU to meet operational goals, including management of people and material resources.
- Liaise with multi-disciplinary team members and use quality management principles to ensure ongoing review and development of high standards of patient care.
- Evaluate nursing practice through regular staff performance appraisal and identification of staff development needs. Support the development of novice staff through the provision of clinical teaching, preceptorship and mentoring.
- Review and evaluate clinical practice requirements including regular audits, addressing deviation from best practise through the management of the departmental education team and quality portfolio groups, be responsible for monitoring of RN L2 portfolios.
- Foster a positive safety culture through leadership, role modelling, including constructive feedback.
- Actively pursue own continuing education and professional development, including representation of ICU/CCU on internal and external committees, including the NSQHS standards.
- Undertake any additional activities as delegated by the ICU/CCU ADON.
- 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
- Practice in accordance with CHS and relevant Government Health policies and procedures, the position description, Code of Conduct and industrial agreements
- Work in accordance with the values of CHS and actively participate in developing a culture that promotes values of being Reliable, Progressive, Respectful and Kind.
- A demonstrated understanding of CHS expectations and a willingness to always behave in accordance with those expectations. This will include personal accountability for own behaviour, and demonstrated leadership in holding others to account.
- Comply with relevant CHS WHS policies, procedures, work instructions and requests;
Position Requirements / Qualifications
Mandatory
- Postgraduate qualification in Critical Care Nursing or similar and a minimum of 5 years’ experience working professionally in Critical Care environments.
- Experience in/or Leadership and Management Training or working towards.
- Registered as a Registered Nurse (Division 1) with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA)(nil conditions or restrictions)
- 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.
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.
- Comply with Canberra Health Services Occupational Assessment, Screening and Vaccination policy.
Note: This is a temporary position available for a period of 12 months with the possibility of extension up to less than 12 months and/or permanency.
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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Note
This is a temporary position available for a period of 12 months with the possibility of extension up to less than 12 months and/or permanency.
Career interest categories:
Healthcare, Medical and Allied Services
Nursing