AddressEmployment Type: Full Time, Temporary 6 – 12 months with the possibility of extension and/or permanency.Classification: Registered Nurse Level 2 (P28459) Salary: $100,957 - $107,000 (Plus 11.5% Super) Location: Canberra Health Services Section: Justice Health Services Closing Date: 15 March 2024
What can we offer you:
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City living without the traffic – click here to see why you should live in Canberra.
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Competitive pay rates and excellent working conditions within a tertiary hospital.
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Salary Packaging with many options that provide full fringe benefits tax concessions.
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Flexible working conditions.
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11.5% Superannuation.
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Scholarships for education support
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Reimbursement of relocation expenses for interstate candidates subject to the hiring managers approval
About the Role:
The Mental Health, Justice Health and Alcohol and Drug Services (MHJHADS) Division is a vibrant and diverse division within ACT Health and provides health services directly and through partnerships with community organisations. The services provided range from prevention and treatment to recovery, maintenance, and harm minimisation. Consumer and carer participation is encouraged in all aspects of service planning and delivery. The Division works in partnership with consumers, carers and a range of government and non-government service providers to ensure the best possible outcomes for clients.
Justice Health (JH), Primary Health team provides high quality primary healthcare services to clients in contact with the criminal justice system and located within the Alexander Maconochie Centre (AMC) and Bimberi Youth Justice Centre (BYJC). This position provides clinical oversight and coordinates care in multiple domains including day to day primary health care services in the Hume Health Centre and specialist teams within JH. The service aims to provide collaborative, equitable and comprehensive health care to clients and other key stakeholders and services.
In this role you will be required to work at various JHS sites and provide clinical and professional support, feedback, and guidance to all JHS Nurses through the provision of formal and informal education. It is expected that you will provide one-on-one teaching, in-service and scenario-based education, clinical support, ongoing evaluation and feedback for JHS Nurses across a diversity of clinical areas within ACT Health – JHS.
This position works collaboratively with all staff including ACT Correctives Services and Child & Youth Protection services to ensure optimum service delivery and best evidence practice. The role will be responsible for quality initiatives, data collection and analysis and procedure development.
The position holder will work within the Custodial Health nursing team to drive change and promote a high-quality service to clients. You will be required to undertake professional development and supervision, participate in quality initiatives, and contribute to the multidisciplinary team processes.
Please note prior to commencement successful candidates will be required to:
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Undergo a pre-employment National Police Check.
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Comply with Canberra Health Services Occupational Assessment, Screening and Vaccination policy.
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.
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.
If you would like further information regarding this opportunity, please contact Leigh Thompson at or (02) 5124 2***.
