AddressClassification: Registered Nurse Level 1
Salary: $72,698 - $97,112 plus superannuation
Position No: LP7991 - 02HJB
Directorate: Canberra Health Services
Advertised (Gazettal date): 30 April 2024
Contact Officer: Raymond Hunt on ************@act.gov.au
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:
The Registered Nurse is responsible for assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating patient care. The RN will be required to collaborate with the multidisciplinary team and provide support, guidance and education to patients and their families.
Under limited direction of the ED Clinical Manager you will perform .You will:
- Provide direct patient care within an ethical and professional framework.
- Practice in accordance with the relevant legislation.
- Practice in a way that acknowledges the dignity, culture, values, beliefs and rights of individuals and/or groups.
- Advocate for individuals and/or groups and their rights for nursing care within the organisational and management structure.
- Understand and practice within your own scope of practice.
- Integrate nursing and health care knowledge, skills and attitudes to provide safe and effective nursing care.
- Integrates organisational policy and guidelines with professional standards.
- Undertake other duties appropriate to this level of classification which contribute to the operation of the organisation.
- Undertake other duties appropriate to this level of classification which contribute to the operation of the organisation.
About you:
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.
Behavioural Capabilities
- Ability to work independently and as part of a multidisciplinary team.
- Adaptability and flexibility to accommodate change and provide responsive services to meet clients’ needs.
- High level leadership skills.
- High level communication skills and the ability to critically think.
Requirements/Qualifications:
Mandatory
- Be registered or be eligible for registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA).
- A minimum of 1 year post graduate experience
- Hold a Post Graduate qualification in Emergency Nursing or equivalent or be working towards one. Alternatively commit to completing the internal Emergency Nursing Transition program within 12 months of commencing the role.
- The successful applicant will need to work a rotating roster including evenings, nights and weekends.
- Demonstrated ability to deliver quality nursing care in accordance with the ANMC National Competency Standards for a Registered Nurse
- 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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