Registered Nurse Level 1 - Transition Program
Full-time Temporary with a Possibility of PermanencyCloses: 31 January 2025Classification: Registered Nurse Level 1
Salary: $80,378 - $105,656 plus superannuation
Position No: 602642-02L46
Directorate: Canberra Health Services
Advertised (Gazettal date): 16 January 2025
Contact Officer: Kay Campbell on ****** What can we offer you: City living without the traffic – click here 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, and 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 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.
Note: This is a temporary position available for a period of 6-12 months with the possibility of extension and/or permanency.
For more information on this position and how to apply, click here Canberra Health Services (CHS) is focused 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.
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