Clinical Nurse Consultant Patient Flow Unit - Rn3.2 | Full-Time Permanent

Classification: Registered Nurse Level 3.2
Salary: $130,846 plus superannuation
Position No: 600664 - 02FNO
Directorate: Canberra Health Services
Advertised (Gazettal date): 03 January 2024
Contact Officer: Judy Ryall on **********@act.gov.au or 02 6264 7***

What can we offer you:

● City living without the traffic – click her to see why you should live in Canberra.
● Competitive pay rates and excellent working conditions.
● Salary Packaging with many options that provide full fringe benefits tax concessions.
● Flexible working conditions.
● 11.5% Superannuation.

About the Hospital:

North Canberra Hospital (formerly Calvary Public Hospital Bruce) and Clare Holland House are now run and operated by Canberra Health Services (CHS)

This is a significant milestone as the ACT Government moves towards delivering a new billion-dollar hospital on Canberra’s Northside.

The current North Canberra Hospital is a level 4 hospital that provides a range of acute and sub-acute services including community based care to the residents of the northside of Canberra and Southern NSW.     North Canberra Hospital (NCH) is a 270 public hospital located in Canberra’s expanding northside.  North Canberra Hospital operates a 24 hour Emergency Department.   Inpatient services include general medicine, surgery, maternity, mental health and critical care.

Other service modalities include day surgery, specialist outpatient clinics, Hospital in the Home and the Geriatric Rapid Acute Care Evaluation service that reaches into aged care facilities across the ACT.

The new Northside Hospital will be built on the existing Calvary Hospital campus in Bruce. It will be a modern, state-of-the-art hospital for patients, visitors and its workforce and will provide more beds and increased services. Until then, it's business as usual at the NCH, and we'll keep providing high-quality care to our patients and community.

About the role:

Reporting to the Director of Nursing Patient Flow, the Clinical Nurse Consultant Patient Flow is a Registered nurse who is accountable for the recruitment and efficient human resources management of the nursing relief pool and casual workforce as required by North Canberra Hospital (NCH) Patient Flow unit (PFU).

The position is responsible for:

• Management and recruitment to the Nurse Relief pool and casual nursing workforce
• Oversight of the Mortuary
• Liaison with the wider nursing team to proactively identify roster shortfalls & liaising with the DON PFU to support wider recruitment strategies.

Direct reports:

• Discharge liaison nurses
• Ward Support Officer Team Leader
• Casual Staff, Nurse relief pool & Agency staff

Liaising with and under direction of the Director of Nursing PFU you will perform the day-to-day operational management of services within the unit including management of nursing workloads, rosters, recruitment and support of Patient Flow strategies.  The CNC will provide expert clinical leadership and management within a multidisciplinary framework, embed, and maintain the National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards at a unit level as well as develop and maintain collaborative partnerships with internal and external stakeholders to facilitate timely and appropriate Patient Flow through allocation of human resources.

You will:

• Provide strong leadership for nurses in all aspects of clinical practice and models of care including planning, implementing, and evaluating professional development, managing education, research, teaching, workforce planning and quality work environment for the unit
• Be accountable for the flexible allocation of human and financial resources within the unit to ensure achievement of an agreed level of service and reporting of variances against agreed targets
• Provide strong leadership to and develop nursing staff within the designated clinical area, providing an environment that encourages regular feedback and fosters innovation to meet the constant demands within the clinical healthcare setting as well as ensuring that performance management agreements are in place and discussed regularly
• Lead, co-ordinate and work in partnership with the multidisciplinary team to facilitate change management initiatives to achieve the strategic objectives of Canberra Health Services (CHS) and to achieve the NSQHSS
• Ensure the development, maintenance and review of clinical guidelines/procedures/policies are aligned with the strategic goals of the Division and CHS and align with the NSQHSS.
• Monitor relevant key performance indicators, quality data and formulate appropriate management plans to achieve this.
• Undertake other duties appropriate to this level of classification which contribute to the operation of the organisation.
• Take reasonable care of your own health and safety and the health and safety of others in the workplace.
• Manage the mortuary, which includes both day to day identification and release of the deceased and management of the area in general.

About you:

Requirements/Qualifications:

Mandatory

• Be registered or be eligible for registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA).
• The successful applicant will need to be available to work full time, Monday to Friday
• CHS is leading the drive to digitally transform health service delivery in Australia through the implementation of a territory wide Digital Health Record. Computer literacy skills are required which are relevant to this role as you will be responsible for completing required documentation and becoming a proficient user of the Digital Health Record and/or other Information Technology systems; once proficient, you will need to remain current with changes, updates and contingencies.

Desirable

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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