Registered Nurse Level 2 - Anaesthetics
Full-time PermanentCity 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: The Peri-Operative Department at North Canberra Hospital consists of a Day Surgery Unit, Surgical Admission Lounge (SAL), 7 Operating Theatres, and a procedure room, covering a wide range of surgical specialities, and a Post Anaesthetic Care Unit (PACU).
Anaesthetic nursing is a diverse and challenging specialty within the Perioperative Unit. Our Specialties include Orthopaedics, Obstetrics, Gynaecological, ENT, Head and Neck, Plastics, Minor Vascular, General Surgery, Urology, Ophthalmic and Maxillofacial Surgery. The North Canberra Hospital, Operating Suite services surgical procedures within the area, including referrals from surrounding regions. Our Anaesthetic Nurses are dynamic skilled professionals who are responsible for the provision of patient centred evidence-based nursing care for every Patient. Our nursing team works within a multidisciplinary healthcare team supported by Perioperative Education Team, and the Clinical Nurse Consultant.
A Registered Nurse with advanced nursing practice skills in the field of Anaesthetic Nursing is required to provide high level support consistently and competently to perioperative patients within North Canberra Hospital and Canberra Health Services.
Anaesthetic RN2 reports directly to the Anaesthetic Clinical Nurse Consultant (CNC) and joins the nursing leadership team. This position is responsible, in collaboration with the other Anaesthetic RN2, for supporting the Anaesthetic nursing team to provide evidence-based nursing care to perioperative patients.
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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