Transition Program - Clare Holland House | Full-Time Temporary

Classification: Registered Nurse Level 1
Salary: $72,698 - $97,112 plus superannuation
Position No: LP7003 - 02GD4
Directorate: Canberra Health Services
Advertised (Gazettal date): 27 February 2024
Contact Officer: Angela Devlin 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:

Clare Holland House provides Specialist Palliative Care Services throughout the ACT including Home-based, Inpatient, Outpatient settings along with outreach to Residential Aged Care Facilities and North Canberra Hospital. The Inpatient Hospice, situated on the shores of Lake Burly Griffin in Barton, provides admission for end of life care, symptom management & optimisation and carer respite for patients diagnosed with a life-limiting illness.

The Transition program to specialist palliative care consists of a 12 month contract, which encompasses study days, self-directed learning, workshops and various mentors. As part of the program Clare Holland House offers to fund a specialist certificate in palliative care through Flinders University which will give you credit points towards the graduate program in palliative care at Flinders University. There is the possibility of future employment at Clare Holland House post the 12 month contract.

Registered nurses form a key part of the multidisciplinary team delivering evidence-based, patient centred care to inpatients at this Specialist Palliative care unit.

Under limited direction of the CHH Inpatient CNC you will perform specialist nursing assessment and care to support patients with a range of life-limiting illnesses and their families, you will:

• Directly provide comprehensive and coordinated patient centred care (acknowledging the patient and their significant others as the unit of care) utilising processes of continuous assessment, negotiated support and evaluation in accordance with the ANMC National Competency
• Standards and the National Standards of Palliative Care
• Act as a professional role model and resource person in the provision of active, compassionate patient centred care as a member of the interdisciplinary team.
• Support the ongoing development of excellence in specialist palliative care nursing by:
  1. Empowering patients and their families to be active participants in their plan of care
  2. Expansion of own knowledge in specialist palliative care and sharing this knowledge with new and less experienced staff using the framework of the National Palliative Care Standards.
  3. Promote the use of Palliative Care Assessment Tools, Karnofsky, SAS, PSS and RUG-ADL to ensure patient and more junior staff understanding of these assessments
• Commitment to maintaining professional development and completion of Mandatory E-Learning, ADP and practical training as required.
• Willingness to communicate positively with families and external stakeholders in relation to promoting the role of Palliative Care in the wider community.
• Participate in evidence based practice through policy development and  research, and conduct quality audits and other quality improvement activities
• Promote Comply with relevant CHS work place health and safety policies, procedures, work instructions and requests.
• Be mindful of manual handling issues at all times and use equipment to safely promote function and movement of patients with increasing disability.
• Undertake other duties appropriate to this level of classification which contribute to the operation of the organisation.

Eligibility/ Other Requirement:

Mandatory

• Successful completion of a diploma in nursing.
• Be registered or be eligible for registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA).
• The successful applicant will need to be available 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

• 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:

Note: This is a temporary position available for a period of 12 months.

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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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