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SalaryClassification: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 position will actively participate in the development of the clinical scope of the role with the intention to undertake practical clinical support and interventions to reduce the need for ED presentations, to work directly with outpatient and community services to minimise the need for acute care presentation.
Note: This is a temporary position available for six months with the possibility of extension up to 12 months
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.
- Prior to commencing this role, a current registration issued under the Working with Vulnerable People (Background Checking) Act 2011 is required. For further information on Working with Vulnerable People registration refer to - Working with vulnerable people (WWVP) registration (act.gov.au)
- Comply with Canberra Health Services Occupational Assessment, Screening and Vaccination policy.
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.
NoteThis is a temporary position available for six months with the possibility of extension up to 12 months.
Career interest categories:Healthcare, Medical and Allied Services
