AddressClassification:Registered Nurse Level 2
Salary: $100,957 - $107,000 plus superannuation
Position No: LP9980, several - 02HF9
Directorate: Canberra Health Services
Advertised (Gazettal date): 03 May 2024
Contact Officer: Janine May 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 Level 2 (RN2) forms a key part of direct patient care and lays the foundation of clinical leadership at NCH. This entails advance knowledge in medical nursing practice, highly developed clinical skills and experience of team leadership. At NCH, the role of the RNL2 encompasses four key categories: clinical, management, education and research, the successful applicant is expected to perform high in all four categories.
The RN2 plays a vital role in ensuring that services meet the National Safety and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) Standards (2nd edition), improving staff performance and delivery of high quality evidence based patient care. The RN2 is responsible for liaising with the multidisciplinary team and stakeholders regarding patient care requirements, and informing management of any issues that may impact meeting organisational targets.
Under limited direction of the Clinical Nurse Consultant you will provide clinical leadership and advice to the team in regard to complex nursing matters, demonstrate excellent communication skills and the ability to coordinate the workflow and patient flow of a busy medical ward, to deliver quality safe nursing care.
You will:
Under direction of the Clinical Nurse Consultant, the RN2 will:
- Provide comprehensive client focused care to patients using evidence based practice.
- Provide leadership and promote a commitment to high quality customer service principles, practices and attributes.
- Maintain individual professional development activities through formal and informal training, sharing acquired knowledge, supporting the development of others and contributing to learning.
- Participate in nursing practice review, quality improvement, clinical research, policy development and review.
- Contribute to communication processes which demonstrate a commitment to effectively deal with challenging behaviours and the resolution of conflict.
- Practices in a way that acknowledges the dignity, culture, values, beliefs and rights of individuals and/or groups. Promotes high quality customer service, adhering to relevant standards, policy and legislation.
- 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
- Strong leadership skills
- Communicates effectively
- Works well under high pressure environments
Requirements/Qualifications:
Mandatory
- Relevant registration as a Registered Nurse (Division 1) with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA).
- Undertaking, or completed post graduate relevant qualifications or studies
- The successful applicant will need to be for weekend and after-hours work.
- 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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