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SalaryEmployment Type – Permanent, Full Time Position
Classification –Registered Nurse Level 3 Grade 2
Title- Nurse Unit Manager - Registered Nurse Level 3 Grade 2
Position Number: 602562
Salary – $130,846 (Plus Super)
Location – North Canberra Hospital Bruce, ACT
Section – Emergency Department
Closing Date – 19th February 2024
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 Nurse Unit Manager (NUM) is responsible for the recruitment and effective and efficient human resource management of nursing staff resources for the Emergency Department. The NUM works collaboratively with the Clinical Nurse Consultant (CNC) work as part of the Nursing Leadership Team to provide strategic and operational management of the Emergency Department Nursing workforce ensuring effective and efficient delivery of clinical services.
Under limited direction of the Assistant Director of Nursing (Emergency) the ED NUM will:
Effectively plan and manage the workforce of the Emergency Department by
- Ensuring rosters and allocation of staff are adequate to maintain a safe and high level of patient care and are compliant with the relevant Enterprise Agreement
- Participate in staff recruitment, orientation, and staff development programs
- Responsible for allocation and management of nursing resources and monitoring of staffing requirements ensuring efficient and effective fiscal management and forward planning based on ongoing needs assessment as part of nursing budget preparation.
- In consultation with NCH Payroll Department, ensure accurate reporting, recording and monitoring of the ED Nursing Workforce shift patterns, leave and leave entitlements ensuring consistently accurate payments.
- Responsible for the management of staff issues, ensuring consistency with relevant legislation, policies, practice standards, processes, and industrial framework for nurses within the ED.
- In consultation with the ED ADON and NCH Injury Management team, manage staff returning to work from injury and those on worker’s compensation.
- Assist in the development and implementation of information systems and ensure staff receive regular feedback, education, to meet the required standard of delivery focusing on goals, continuing professional development to meet best practices and quality processes.
- In consultation with the ED ADON/ CNC, assist the ED to meet key performance indicators, promote and progress change and quality projects ensuring delivery of high-level patient-centred care, resulting in improved patient outcomes and enhanced patient satisfaction
- Represent the ED on internal and external committees
- Foster a positive workplace culture including providing constructive feedback to all levels
- 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).
- 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
- Postgraduate qualifications in Emergency Nursing, Management, Health Leadership or other relevant discipline. and a minimum of 5 years’ experience working in the relevant field.
- 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.
How to apply:
Applications must be submitted through the e-recruitment system;
- Applications must include a copy of a current CV and details for at least 2 professional referees
- A pitch outlining your skills, knowledge, and experience and why you should be considered for this role. You should take into consideration the selection criteria (below) when drafting your response.
- Where possible include specific relevant examples of your work.
To be eligible for permanent employment within the ACT Public Service you must be an Australian citizen or a permanent resident”
What you require:
These are the key selection criteria for how you will be assessed in conjunction with your CV and experience.
- Proven recent comprehensive management and/or clinical competency relevant to the position and to manage human, financial, and material resource within a budgetary framework and in consultation with area Clinical Nurse Consultant and/or ADON.
- Knowledge and experience in leading and managing an effective team, including appropriate rostering practices and leave management, which foster a “best” work culture/environment and comply with the current Nursing and Midwifery Enterprise Agreement.
- Demonstrated ability to work within a multi-disciplinary team and to both communicate effectively and foster a culture of open communication and feedback including a record of behaviour and attitudes consistent with professional standards.
- Demonstrated commitment to research, best practice, continuous quality improvement and continuous professional development of self and others.
- Demonstrates understanding of, and adherence to, safety and quality standards, work, health and safety (WH&S) and the positive patient experience. Displays behaviour consistent with CHS’s values of reliable, progressive, respectful and kind.
If you would like further information regarding this opportunity, please contact Kim Hale ********@act.gov.au
A merit pool will be established from this recruitment process and will be used for the next 12 months to fill various positions both on a temporary and permanent basis with full-time and part-time opportunities available.
