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SalaryClassification:Medical Imaging Level 5
Salary: $142,141 - $159,994 plus superannuation
Position No: LP6705 - 02GO2
Directorate: Canberra Health Services
Advertised (Gazettal date): 25 March 2024
Contact Officer: Rebecca Manning on ***************@act.gov.au or (02) 62016***
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 Ultrasound department runs a 24-hour service including weekend and public holiday shifts, and on call service outside core hours (penalty rates apply). The department has four ultrasound rooms and sonographers work collaboratively to provide high quality diagnostic scans and maintain sonographer health and safety. The predominant workload is general, small parts, obstetric and gynaecologic scans.
The Ultrasound Clinical Educator role will provide clinical expertise and education programmes to staff and students including medical, nursing and allied health staff. The role will be supported by the Ultrasound Clinical Lead and Radiologists to educate on the latest evidence-based approach in Ultrasound.
This role will also work clinically to maintain skills and is required to participate in the department rotating and on call rosters.
Under limited direction of the Deputy Director Medical Imaging (Ultrasound) you will:
- Perform high quality diagnostic ultrasound examinations, based on industry guidelines, and informed by evidence-based practice within the Ultrasound Department at the North Canberra Hospital.
- Be familiar with and adhere to the ASAR Code of Conduct for Sonographers.
- Maintain a high standard of clinical practice and professional leadership by participating in ongoing professional and organisational education and training, quality assurance, and research.
- Plan and implement comprehensive education frameworks for training and mentoring existing and new staff including student Sonographers and staff performing point of care ultrasound (POCUS) where relevant.
- Perform research/quality improvement and change management projects that have a positive impact on patient outcomes, including maintaining clinical standards, policies, and protocols for ultrasound.
- Support trainee and student Sonographers throughout their training programs including providing formal feedback and liaising with education providers.
- Undertake other duties appropriate to this level of classification which contribute to the operation of the organisation.
North Canberra Hospital 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.
About you:
Requirements/Qualifications:
Mandatory
- Relevant tertiary qualifications and registration with the Australian Sonographer Accreditation Registry (ASAR).
- The successful applicant will need to be available for weekend and after-hours work.
Highly Desirable
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. For further information on Working with Vulnerable People registration refer to - Working with vulnerable people (WWVP) registration (act.gov.au)
- Undergo a pre-employment National Police Check.
- Comply with Canberra Health Services Occupational Assessment, Screening and Vaccination policy.
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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.
NoteA 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.
Career interest categories:Healthcare, Medical and Allied Services
