AddressClassification:Health Service Officer Level 3
Salary: $59,421 - $61,238 plus superannuation
Position No: LC0033 - 02HMZ
Directorate: Canberra Health Services
Advertised (Gazettal date): 06 May 2024
Contact Officer: Stephanie Jones 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:
The Ward Services Officer (WSO) position provides support to the clinical staff and provide assistance with patient care. The North Canberra Hospital is a 24-hour service that operates daily including weekends and Public Holidays. These positions are to assist with patient manual handling, clinical support service and transport throughout the hospital campus and Calvary Private, and to assist in code responses
The WSO team as part of the patient journey will ensure the correct patient is collected for transported while following the transport procedures maintaining patient privacy, confidentiality and safety.
You will:
- Answer and attend all pagers. Top priority given to:
- a. Code Blue Medical Emergency
- b. Code Black Personal Threat
- c. Code Red Fire
- d. Code Yellow Internal Disaster
- e. Code Brown External Disaster
- f. Code Orange Evacuation
- g. Code Yellow Internal Disaster
- Assist in the safe manual or mechanical lifting and movement of patients, including the safe patient transport throughout the hospital campus, and maintain appropriate infection control.
- Assist nursing staff with pre-operative male shaves.
- Transport medical equipment as directed in all areas of the hospital and perform after hours courier duties as specified.
- Assist with mortuary duties such as the releasing, identification, viewing and placement of deceased persons.
- Assist in general ward housekeeping including dirty linen removal and equipment cleaning.
- Assist with the orientation and training of new recruits throughout all areas of the Hospital excluding operating theatres.
- Undertaking other duties appropriate to this level of classification which contribute to the operation of the section.
About you:
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.
Behavioural Capabilities
Good communication skills: To ensure effective teamwork and that all Ward Service Officers comply with policies and procedures that are relevant to their work performance.
Teamwork: An understanding of the importance of teamwork and the ability to work collaboratively to create a positive culture and deliver a quality service.
Adaptability and flexibility: To accommodate change and provide responsive services to meet clients’ needs.
Requirements/Qualifications:
Desirable
- Understanding of Infection Prevention and Control Processes within a healthcare facility.
- Knowledge of Ward Services Officer duties and understanding of the Patient Support Services commitment to client services and outcomes.
- Ability to work Monday to Friday at 76 hours a fortnight as required within all areas of the Hospital.
- Hold a current driver’s licence.
- The successful applicant will need to be available for occasional 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.
- 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:
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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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