AddressNorth Canberra Hospital - Staff Specialist in Geriatrics
Part-time Permanent
Closes: 08 March 2024
Classification: Specialist Band 1 - 5/Senior Specialist
Salary: $188,151 - $254,198 plus superannuation
Position No: 600576 - 02FXY
Directorate: Canberra Health Services
Advertised (Gazettal date): 15 February 2024
Contact Officer: Kim McNeilly on Kim.McNeilly@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.
● Reimbursement of relocation expenses for interstate candidates (subject to review and approval).
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 GRACE (Geriatric Rapid Acute Care Evaluation) team provides both outreach to residents in RACFs and limited in-reach for these residents during any hospital ED presentation or inpatient stay in order to facilitate an effective transition back to the RACF on discharge. The GRACE model of care focuses on supporting service providers to provide care within the RACF environment wherever possible, thereby preventing ED presentation and hospital admission. The GRACE team facilitates safe transitions between inpatient and outpatient care to avoid representation. The GRACE geriatricians also provide inpatient consultation to other inpatient teams to assist in management of delirium, BPSD and complex discharge planning for older adults.
The Staff Specialist Geriatrician promotes healthy aging through the care of older adults in both inpatient and outpatient settings based at the North Canberra Hospital (NCH). This position is responsible for providing clinical care and leadership within the GRACE team (Geriatric Rapid Acute Care Evaluation) operating from North Canberra Hospital and will be guided by current evidence based medical practice, to deliver quality and safe patient centred care. In addition to providing health care to older adults in Canberra and surrounding regions, the department is firmly committed to the education of both Advanced Trainees (ATs) and Basic Physician Trainees (BPTs).
Under limited direction of the GRACE lead consultant and Executive Director of Medical Services, NCH, you will provide high quality patient focused clinical care and leadership within Geriatric Medicine at NCH.
- Provide Geriatric consultation liaison services at North Canberra Hospital.
- Participate in the GRACE on-call and consultant duty roster.
- Contribute to and participate in management, clinical audit procedures, quality improvement, utilisation reviews and educational activities within the Division of Medicine at NCH.
- Ensure high standards of medical record keeping for patients of Canberra Health Services including completion of case mix reports if appropriate.
- Assist in and/or supervise the educational and professional development of nursing staff, undergraduate students, postgraduate students, resident medical staff and registrars.
- Assist in the development of policies and procedures for GRACE and Geriatric Medicine at North Canberra Hospital to ensure high standards of clinical care and maintenance of a Centre of Excellence.
- Develop and maintain liaison with other centres, providers and professionals within and without NCH and provide high standards of professional advice/opinions in relation to the service.
- Represent the Geriatric Medicine speciality on committees and working parties relevant to your professional expertise if appropriate and/or required.
- Undertake other duties appropriate to this level of classification which contribute to the operation of the organisation.
About you:
Requirements/Qualifications:
Mandatory
- Be registered or be eligible for registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA).
- Hold a Fellowship of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Physicians (FRACP) or an equivalent higher specialist qualification in Geriatric Medicine
- The successful applicant will need the ability to participate in a GRACE on-Call Physician Roster.
- Skills in the clinical supervision, teaching and professional development at all levels, including medical, nursing, and allied health professional staff, both postgraduate and undergraduate.
- Excellent interpersonal skills including effective negotiation and conflict resolution, and an ability to liaise effectively at all levels of work, and interact as part of a diverse multidisciplinary team.
- 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
- Have an understanding of how the National Safety and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) indicators align with this role.
- Fulfil the responsibilities of this role in alignment to the CHS Exceptional Care Framework, Clinical Governance Framework, Partnering With Consumers Framework and all other related frameworks
Please note prior to commencement successful candidates will be required to:
- Prior to commencing this role, a current registration issued under the Working with Vulnerable People (Background Checking) Act 2011 is required.
- Undergo a pre-employment National Police Check.
- Comply with Canberra Health Services Occupational Assessment, Screening and Vaccination policy.
For more information on this position and how to apply "click here"
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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