AddressRegistered Nurse Level 2 - Forensic Mental Health Services
Full-time Permanent
Closes: 21 February 2024
Classification: Registered Nurse Level 2
Salary: $100,957 - $107,000 plus superannuation
Position No: 25563 - 02G79
Directorate: Canberra Health Services
Advertised (Gazettal date): 14 February 2024
Contact Officer: Parika Saini on parika.saini@act.gov.au or (02) 5124 4677
What can we offer you:
- City living without the traffic - click here to see why you should live in Canberra.
- Competitive pay rates and excellent working conditions within a tertiary hospital.
- Salary Packaging with many options that provide full fringe benefits tax concessions.
- Flexible working conditions.
- 11.5% Superannuation.
- Scholarships for education support
- Reimbursement of relocation expenses for interstate candidates subject to the hiring managers approval
About the Role:
Forensic Mental Health Services is a unit of Mental Health, Justice Health, and Alcohol & Drug Services which is responsible for the delivery of high-quality Mental Health care to Mental Health clients who have a history of, are currently involved with, or are at high risk of becoming involved with, the criminal justice system. FMHS provides Mental Health care across the lifespan and across a range of settings, including a centralised community health facility, youth and adult custodial facilities, off campus community liaison, court settings, and secure inpatient units.
Under limited direction of the Team Manager, Custodial Mental Health, you will be expected to provide high quality Mental Health assessment and care with support from senior clinicians including; legislated induction screening, assessment and management of at-risk clients, and medication management to Mental Health clients within the ACT's two correctional centres - the Alexander Maconochie Centre (AMC) and Bimberi Youth Justice Centre (BYJC). You will be required to work collaboratively with a team of clinical staff of nursing, medical, and allied health professionals, as well as a range of external agencies including JHS Custodial Health, community and inpatient Mental Health Services, ACT Corrective Services, CYPS, and external agencies such as NGO's. At this level you will be expected to have sound clinical assessment skills, a thorough knowledge of relevant policies and procedures, engage actively in clinical supervision and professional development, and contribute to quality and safety initiatives. You will be supported by a Clinical Nurse Consultant and report to the Team Manager, Custodial Mental Health.
This position is based at the AMC and may be in either the Assertive Response Team (ART) or the Clinical Management team depending on interest and experience. ART is a 7-day acute Mental Health service that operates between 08:30 and 19:00 hrs daily. Shifts include 08:30 to 17:00 or 10:30 to 19:00 hours. 4-7 weeks annual leave depending on roster. Weekends and public holidays attract penalty rates. Custodial and laundry allowance applies. Eligible applicants may also apply for post-graduate qualification allowance.
Please refer to the position description for more information on this role, and the ACT Public Sector Nursing and Midwifery Enterprise Agreement 2020-2022 for a full account of employment conditions.
For more information regarding the position duties click here for the Position Description.
Please note prior to commencement successful candidates will be required to:
- 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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