Care Navigator Registered Nurse 2.1 | Full-time Temporary

Closes: 08 February 2024 Classification: Registered Nurse Level 2 Salary: $100,957 - $107,000 plus superannuation Position No: 62476 - 02FSU Directorate: Canberra Health Services Advertised (Gazettal date): 25 January 2024 Contact Officer: Kirsty Cummin on *************@act.gov.au 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 About the Role: The Liaison and Navigation Service (LaNS) is a new service that is being established to improve the experience of people and their health outcomes through information sharing, integration of care across primary, secondary and tertiary services and coordination across health and community services. It will focus on the provision of the right care, at the right time, at the right place by the most appropriate provider in partnership with the consumer and their care supports. The service comprises of a multidisciplinary team that assists patients and their supports to navigate the multiple services involved in their care. The service provides, and supports patient centred, integrated, and coordinated care. It works closely with acute and community services, and across health and human services, to reduce the challenges patients and their supports face when required to access multiple services, to ensure the highest quality of care. The Care Navigator will take on a key role in the staged development and implementation of the service. The role will work collaboratively with colleagues, consumers, and external agencies to contribute to the ongoing design of this innovative patient centred service. The role will work with individual consumers and their care supports to provide support, advocacy, system navigation and connection with appropriate services. It will champion the role of this service and actively advocate and educate colleagues and other services about the needs of consumers for navigational support. This unique role is an opportunity to build relationships with individual consumers and their supports, and with diverse acute and community services, to anticipate and reduce the challenges that people with complex chronic health needs, and their supports, can face. It is an opportunity to ensure the highest quality of care, information and support is provided when consumers and their supports need it, so that they can navigate the complexities of their care. The role will be a point of coordination with external health and human services and work with the CHS services and the current specialty care coordinators to support consumers and improve the formal networks and pathways for information sharing, coordination, and Emergency Department (ED) avoidance. The…
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