Registered Nurse Level 3 Grade 1- Clinical Nurse Consultant OMU
Full-time Temporary with a Possibility of PermanencyCity living without the traffic – click here to see why you should live in Canberra.Competitive pay rates and excellent working conditions within a tertiary hospital.Salary Packaging with many options that provide full fringe benefits tax concessions.Flexible working conditions.Reimbursement of relocation expenses for interstate candidates (subject to review and approval).Are you ready for your next challenge? Then this is the role for you!
The Occupational Medicine Unit (OMU) sits within the Division of Nursing, Midwifery and Patient Support Services and reports to the CHS Infection Prevention Control Unit. The OMU staff support the guiding principles associated with the clinical response of a pandemic by protecting the workforce, patients, and the community. This support includes undertaking qualitative fit testing of N95/P2 respirators for health care workers in high-risk areas. The OMU staff provide an occupational assessment, screening, and vaccination program for CHS staff including:
Immunization: Hepatitis B, measles, mumps, rubella, varicella (chickenpox), diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis (Whooping cough) and annual influenza vaccination.Screening / serology: Hepatitis B, measles, mumps, rubella, varicella (chickenpox), and annual blood borne viruses (staff who perform invasive exposure prone procedures).Management of staff with blood and body fluids exposures such as needlestick, sharps, splash, and scratch/bites.Please note prior to commencement successful candidates will be required to: Comply with Canberra Health Services Occupational Assessment, Screening and Vaccination policy.Note: This is a temporary position available for a period of nine months with the possibility of extension up to 12 months and/or permanency.
For more information on this position and how to apply "click here" 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.
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