AddressEmployment Type: Full Time, Permanent Classification: Registered Nurse Level 3 Grade 1 (P37269) Salary: $115,743 - $120,506 (Plus 11.5% Super) Location: Alexander Maconochie/Bimberi Youth Justice Centre Section: Justice Health Services Closing Date: 11 July 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:
Justice Health Services (JHS) is a unit of the Mental Health, Justice Health, and Alcohol & Drug Services (MHJHADS) Division of Canberra Health Services. It is a contemporary evidence-based service that provides high quality health care to people involved in the criminal justice system. Custodial 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. The service aims to provide collaborative, equitable, comprehensive holistic health care that involves the patient and other key stakeholders and services.
At this level you will be responsible for the day-to-day clinical leadership of the Justice Health Services Primary Health Team. This includes coordinating access to health services in the Hume Health Centre located within the Alexander Maconochie Centre (AMC) and the health clinic located in the Bimberi Youth Justice Centre (BYJC), and for providing clinical leadership to the Justice Health Service nursing team and care coordination to clients accessing Justice Health services.
This position works collaboratively with all staff to ensure optimum service delivery and best evidence practice. This role will work with the senior nursing leadership team to drive change and promote a high-quality service to patients. 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.
Please note: Appointment to position may be based on written application and referee reports only.
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 Felicity O’Neill at (02) 5124 2***.
