Classification: Registered Nurse Level 4.2
Salary: $140,121 plus superannuation
Position No: LP7726, several - 02HKV
Directorate: Canberra Health Services
Advertised (Gazettal date): 03 May 2024
Contact Officer: Angela Devlin
What can we offer you:
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, and Outpatient settings along with outreach to Residential Aged Care Facilities (RACF) 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.
Palliative Care Nurse Practitioners within the PEACE teamwork from Clare Holland House, they provide a consultative service to people who have malignant or non-malignant life-limiting illness with specialist palliative care needs who are living in residential aged care facilities in the ACT by:
The Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner will continue to develop/evolve to meet the changing clinical requirements of both CHH and the Residential Aged Care Facilities.
The Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner will be based within the Clare Holland House, within the palliative aged care (PEACE) team and will, in collaboration with palliative care consultants, general practitioners and other health professionals, clinically manage palliative care patients within aged care facilities across the territory who have complex palliative care needs.
The Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner will:
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
Requirements/Qualifications:
Mandatory
Please note prior to commencement successful candidates will be required to:
Notes: There are full-time and part time positions available, with the salary noted above will be paid pro-rata. A 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.
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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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Healthcare, Medical and Allied Services
Nursing
Location: | Australia Australian Capital Territory Canberra |
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