AddressEmployment Type: Full Time, 6-month temporary with possibility of extension and/or permanencyClassification: Registered Nurse Level 3.2 (P64996) Salary: $130,846 (Plus 11.5% Super) Location: Canberra Health Services Section: Medical Emergency TeamClosing Date: 4 April 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:
An exciting project exists to join the team in the Medical Emergency Team as the Clinical Nurse Consultant.
The Medical Emergency Team works in collaboration with medical and nursing staff from the Intensive Care Unit, Emergency Department and Neonatal Intensive Care Unit to provide a rapid response and assessment, management and follow up review of patients requiring a Medical Emergency response or who are at risk of acute deterioration across the full campus.
The Rapid Response service within MET aims to reduce the number of MET calls through the early identification, referral and management of patient deterioration. This is the first step in a staged approach to establishing a nurse-led MET response through the introduction of Advanced Practice Nurse (APN) and Nurse Practitioner (NP) roles within the MET.
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.
Successful candidate/s maybe selected based on application only. A merit list/pool may be established from this process that can be used to fill similar vacancies within the unit over the next 12 months.
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 Ashleigh Wilson at ***************@act.gov.au.
