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SalaryClassification:Registered Nurse Level 2
Salary: $100,957 - $107,000 plus superannuation
Position No: 38083 - 02G6N
Directorate: Canberra Health Services
Advertised (Gazettal date): 08 February 2024
Contact Officer: Ella Luttrell on ***************@act.gov.au or 0468 595 ***
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.
- Reimbursement of relocation expenses for interstate candidates (subject to review and approval).
About the Role:
The Rheumatology Department at Canberra Hospital has a strong focus on clinical service delivery, supporting rheumatology patients within the ACT and surrounding regional areas. We provide leadership in musculoskeletal medicine; promote evidence-based practice and undertake clinical research to improve rheumatology patient outcomes.
The Rheumatology Registered Nurse (RN) Level 2 will play a key role in providing day to day care and support to rheumatology patients and their families living with arthritis and autoimmune disease, ensuring appropriate referrals and timely access to care. In collaboration with the Rheumatology Advanced Practice Nurse (APN) and rheumatology medical team, the Rheumatology RN2 coordinates investigations, appointments, clinical care, and education for rheumatology patients, including patients undergoing biologic Disease Modifying Anti-Rheumatic Drug (bDMARD) therapy for inflammatory arthritis.
For more information regarding the position of 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.
Note: This is a permanent full time position.
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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