What can we offer you:
● City living without the traffic - click her to see why you should live inCanberra.
● 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 wideDigital 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 theNational Safety and Quality Health Service (NSQHS)indicators align with this role.
•Fulfil the responsibilities of this role in alignment to theCHS Exceptional Care Framework,Clinical Governance Framework,Partnering With Consumers Frameworkandall other related frameworks.
Please note prior to commencement successful candidates will be required to:
•Prior to commencing this role, a current registration issued under theWorking with Vulnerable People (Background Checking) Act 2011is required.
• Undergo a pre-employment National Police Check.
• Comply with Canberra Health Services Occupational Assessment, Screening and Vaccination policy.
How to apply:
Applications must be submitted through the e-recruitment system;
•Applications must include a copy of a current CV anddetails for at least 2 professional referees
• A maximum two page pitch outlining your skills, knowledge, and experience and why you should be considered for this role. You should take into consideration the selection criteria (below) when drafting your response.
• Where possible include specific relevant examples of your work.
To be eligible for permanent employment within the ACT Public Service you must be anAustralian citizen ora permanent resident”
What you require:
These are the key selection criteria for how you will be assessed in conjunction with your CV and experience.
• Demonstrated leadership and management ability in leading a large clinical team with multidisciplinary workforce, as well as providing leadership with direct patient care (for patients of varying complexity) utilising the nursing process, incorporating a risk assessment approach while working within professional legislation and existing policies and procedure.
• Demonstrated excellence in communication skills, including effective negotiation and conflict resolution, ability to liaise effectively with diverse external and internal stakeholders, and interact as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
• Demonstrated ability to develop and mentor staff within a complex health care environment.
• Demonstrated outcomes in innovation, quality improvement and change management in the pursuit of best practice to achieve excellence in the delivery of contemporary models of care.
•Demonstrates understanding of, and adherence to, safety and quality standards, work, health and safety (WH&S) and the positive patient experience. Displays behaviour consistent with CHS’s values of reliable, progressive, respectful and kind.
If you would like further information regarding this opportunity, please contact Amanda O’Donnell, amanda.o'[email protected]
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Employment Type- Temporary, Full Time Position (12 months)
Classification- Registered Nurse Level 3 Grade 2
Title-Intensive Care and Coronary Care Clinical Nurse Consultant
Position Number: LP5892
Salary- $130,846 (Plus Super) pro rata
Location- North Canberra Hospital Bruce, ACT
Section- Intensive Care Unit
Closing Date - 3rdMay 2024