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SalaryVirtual Surgery School Navigator - Delivery and Innovation Team
Fixed-Term, Full -Time until June 30, 2024
About Grampians Health
Grampians Health was established 1 November 2021, bringing together Edenhope and District Memorial Hospital, Stawell Regional Health, Wimmera Health Care Group and Ballarat Health Services to deliver safe, sustainable, healthcare tailored to changing workforce and community needs, for the long term.
This partnership follows years of strong collaboration and close partnerships between the four health services. Together, we will deliver better healthcare, enhance services and advance careers, closer to home, now and into the future.
A career with Grampians Health means you are connected and are part of a team providing quality healthcare to rural and regional communities. Our communities are diverse, as is our workforce, with expert clinical staff from across the world choosing to live and work in our beautiful region.
Grampians Health provides acute, maternity, mental health, allied health, aged care, administration and support services. This means your career will be as diverse and rewarding as you strive to be.
About the role
The Elective Surgery Reform Program is a Department of Health initiative to improve access to and outcomes of elective surgery in Victoria.
The Virtual Surgery School (VSS) Navigator will be vital in driving and implementing Virtual Surgery School for patients that are identified as needing planned surgery at Grampians Health, by providing coordination and support to patients in the form of pre-operative optimisation.
The Virtual Surgery School Navigator will launch and embed Virtual Surgery School in a safe, patient centred manner and facilitate ongoing engagement of key stakeholders. The Navigator will run the Virtual Surgery School including triage of patients and referral management, outsourcing of referrals and supporting the delivery of VSS content to patients across Grampians Health. Focusing on optimisation of the evolving model of care via sound evaluation processes.
The Virtual Surgery School Navigator will collaborate with a multi-disciplinary team to identify and drive access for patients pre operatively to optimise their health and wellbeing prior to surgery. The Navigator role will encompass a combination of operational and project management responsibilities to further grow and develop virtual surgery school.
Key Responsibilities
- Establish a collaborative and collegiate working relationship with key stakeholders.
- Key measures of success of the program
- Actively engage in discussions and information sharing with multi-disciplinary teams
- Commit to supporting the sustainability and spread of improvement initiatives both internally and externally.
- Focus on continuous improvement, with a mandate to consider and propose how current processes can be improved and promote shared learnings.
- Work collectively with the elective surgery reform team to achieve the goals of optimising surgical throughput, fast track reassessment of patients, support non-surgical management pathways and support complimentary reform
- Client Centred Coordinated Service Delivery.
- Have the ability to screen, triage and refer on patients who would benefit from 1:1 allied health input
- Independently manage bookings and referrals for Virtual Surgery School
- Flexibility to assist other projects in the reform project as needed/directed.
- Ensure clinical documentation is accurate and completed in a timely manner.
- Identify, support and engage with stakeholders throughout the GRHSP to support the ongoing development of the Virtual Surgery School.
- Build and maintain positive relationships with stakeholders to ensure engagement in the program and to facilitate a partnership approach.
- Support a team approach to multidisciplinary care through effective communication between health professionals
At Grampians Health, we recognise our staff are our greatest asset. We are committed to providing a safe and healthy environment for our staff, patients, residents, visitors, volunteers and contractors at all sites.
- Flexible work arrangements and purchase leave opportunities
- Salary packaging for living expenses such as rent/mortgage plus meals, entertainment & holidays
- Access to discounted health club membership
- Staff rewards and recognition programs
Ballarat is the largest centre in Western Victoria and the states fastest growing inland city. Dubbed Australia’s most liveable city in 2020, Ballarat is home to first class education, fine dining and boutique shopping. Uniquely located within easy access to Melbourne, Geelong, Bendigo and the Western district, Ballarat is blessed with some of Australia’s most significant heritage buildings and natural landscapes.
This position is paid in accordance with the Nurses and Midwives (Victorian Public Sector) (Single Interest Employers) Enterprise Agreement 2020 - 2024. The classification is Clinical Support Nurse which is paid at $51.76 per hour.
How to apply
Click APPLY or contact Cassie Cosgrave, West Regional Change & Redesign Lead - Elective Surgery Delivery & Innovation 0403 400 978 or Lisa Kinnersly East, Regional Change & Redesign Lead - Elective Surgery Delivery & Innovation 0432 112 432 , Grampians Region Health Service Partnership - Change , Redesign and Implementation Leads for a confidential discussion.
All appointments are subject to a satisfactory police records check, immunisation clearance and Working with Children check and/or NDIS Worker Screening Check.
All employees must be willing and able to wear Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) when required, which at a minimum is a surgical mask. Additional PPE requirements are role-dependent.
Grampians Health is a child safe organisation, committed to the safety and wellbeing of all children and young people.
Grampians Health is committed to providing a diverse and inclusive workforce. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disability, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, mature age workers and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (or questioning), intersex and asexual LGBTQIA+.
Selection Criteria
- Essential : Have you received three doses of a COVID19 vaccine? If no, please provide further detail regarding doses received, booking dates and/or other relevant information.
- Essential : The successful candidate must hold, or be prepared to undergo, an employee Working with Children Check (WWCC). Please advise if you currently hold an employee WWCC, if not are you willing to undergo one?
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Position Description
Virtual Surg Nav v11 1.pdf
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Please note that this position will close at 11:45pm on the closing date.
Please ensure your application is added before this time as we do not accept late applications.
