Advanced Practice Nurse - Palliative Care | Part-time Permanent

Classification: Registered Nurse Level 3.
Salary: $115,743 - $120,506 plus superannuation
Position No: 34994 - 02I97
Directorate: Canberra Health Services
Advertised (Gazettal date): 12 June 2024
Contact Officer: Cheryl Rowsell on **************@act.gov.au or 0466 322 ***

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.

To find out more on what a career at CHS can give you, the benefits of working with us and why Canberra is Australia's happiest city click here: Benefits of working with us - Canberra Health Services (act.gov.au)

About the Role:

The division of Cancer and Ambulatory Support provides a comprehensive range of cancer screening, assessment, diagnostic and treatment services and Palliative Care through inpatient, outpatient, and community settings. The division is also responsible for the administration support to Ambulatory and Community Health centres across ACT Health.

You will play a key role in supporting the Palliative Care team on a day-to-day basis by providing high quality patient assessment, triaging of inpatient referrals, care planning and implementation of care plans both within CAS and the wider inpatient hospital environment.  You will provide high level support and clinical reference to the level 2 Registered Nurses within the inpatient Palliative Care liaison team.

This position is responsible for driving service innovation and for the development of models of care for enhanced service provision.

For more information regarding the position duties click here for the 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.

Notes: This position is part-time at (28) hours per week and the full-time salary noted above will be pro-rata.

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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This position is part-time at (28) hours per week and the full-time salary noted above will be pro-rata.

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