AddressClassification:Registered Nurse Level 2
Salary: $100,957 - $107,000 plus superannuation
Position No: 41432 - 02I6I
Directorate: Canberra Health Services
Advertised (Gazettal date): 12 June 2024
Contact Officer: Felicity O’Neill on felicity.o'*****@act.gov.au or (02) 5124 0***
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.
- VISA/Sponsorship for eligible candidates.
- 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:
Mental Health, Justice Health and Alcohol and Drug Services (MHJHADS) provides support to youth and adults via inpatient and outpatient settings, community health centres, justice health facilities and other community settings, including people’s homes. MHJHADS aims to be socially inclusive and operate within a recovery-focussed and/or harm minimisation approach.
JHS provides primary health services and specialist mental health services to people in the criminal justice system in a range of settings including the courts, custody, youth detention and community settings. Custodial Health – Primary Health provides primary, drug and alcohol, complex, and population health services to people in custody and facilitates access to specialist and allied health services, while Custodial Mental Health provides mental health screening, psychiatry services, and crisis mental health services to people in custody.
The Opioid Maintenance Treatment (OMT) service is a part of the division of Mental Health, Justice Health, and Alcohol & Drug Services (MHJHADS), which is a contemporary, evidence-based service providing high quality alcohol and drug services (ADS) guided by the principles of harm minimisation. OMT provides information, advice, referral, intake, assessment, and support for those involved in the criminal justice system at the Alexander Maconochie Centre (AMC) and Bimberi Youth Justice Centre (BYJC) who are struggling with substance use issues.
Under supervision of the Alcohol and other Drug (AOD) RN3, the Registered Nurse role at this level is responsible for the provision of sound clinical services and interventions to clients of OMT Services. This includes participation in quality management and improvement initiatives to promote optimal service delivery, and the maintenance of professional competencies. The Registered Nurse position is supported by a cohesive and multi-disciplinary team.
This position(s) may be required to work across multiple sites, participate in overtime, and/or a rotating roster.
For more information regarding the position duties click here for the Position Description.
Please note prior to commencement successful candidates will be required to:
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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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