Afterhours Community Nurse Co-Ordinator - Registered Nurse Level 3 Grade 1

Employment Type: Part Time, Permanent Classification: Registered Nurse Level 3 Grade 1 (P28254) Salary: $115,743 - $120,506 (Plus 11.5% Super) Location: Canberra Health Services Section: Community Care Program Closing Date: 14 March 2024

What can we offer you: 

About the Role:

Canberra Health Services is undergoing massive growth, and we want you to be a part of our team!

The Community Nurse Co-ordinator will support the after-hours community nursing services by acting as a resource clinician and provide advice and support to nursing and patients.

The Link team is responsible for providing afterhours nursing services to patients with a broad range of needs within the ACT community by coordinating the afterhours rapid response service for community nursing including weekends and ACT public holidays. These services include wound care, continence management, stoma care, post-acute support, and palliative/end of life care.

In this role you will oversee the after-hours community nursing service by coordinating and supporting the Afterhours Community nursing staff and workloads.

Successful candidates will be provided ongoing education and training opportunities. You will be part of a supportive multi-disciplinary team that will work with you to expand and develop your clinical skills to care for patient with a wide range of needs.

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

 To Apply: 

To apply for this position please submit a CV, and a maximum 2-page application addressing Selection Criteria, listed in the position description.

Note: Appointment to position may be based on written application and referee reports only.

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 communityOur 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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