Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner (
Job Number:
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Description
Employment Type – Permanent, Full and Part Time Positions
Classification –Nurse Practitioner – RN 4.2
Title – Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner
Position Number: LP7726
Salary – $140,121 (Plus Super) pro rata
Location – North Canberra Hospital Bruce, ACT
Section – Clare Holland House
Closing Date – 17th May 2024
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:
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:
- working at an advanced level of palliative care nursing practice that includes comprehensive holistic assessment, diagnosis, therapeutic management, quality use of medicines, monitoring and evaluation of care tailored to the person’s needs.
- collaborating with multidisciplinary and other health care professional/service providers to ensure the residents and their family/carer remain the focus of care, and
- working together with GP’s and RACF staff ensuring resident’s goals of care/advance care plan are agreed upon and upheld.
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:
- Act as a professional role model, advocate and resource person in the provision of age-appropriate, compassionate, culture and trauma aware, person-centred palliative care
- Empower and advocate for patients to actively participate in shared decision-making by recognising their personal autonomy in planning for future care and optimising their quality of life
- Facilitate the continual development and maintenance of standards of safe practice and delivery of comprehensive and effective specialist palliative care to patients and families
- Provide leadership to promote palliative care programs, participate in research, and maintain membership of relevant professional bodies, foster collaborative relationships with service providers and key stakeholders.
- Actively fostering knowledge transfer in the provision of specialist palliative care with new and less experienced staff using the framework of the National Palliative Care Standards
- Undertake other duties appropriate to this level of classification which contribute to the operation of the organisation.
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
- Individual initiative with strong problem solving and consultation skills.
- High Level communication and interpersonal skills.
- A commitment to practicing holistic medicine that takes into account and is sensitive to a patient’s unique psychological, spiritual and socioeconomic background.
- Ability to liaise effectively with staff at all levels and across disciplines.
- Organisational ability and time management skills.
Requirements/Qualifications:
Mandatory
- Must hold relevant post graduate qualifications in Palliative Care Nursing
- Be registered or be eligible for registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA).
- Must hold a current drivers’ licence.
- 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.
Desirable
- Have experience working within the aged care sector, with an understanding of the dynamics of aging, polypharmacy, Alzheimer’s disease, multiple comorbidities.
- 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:
- Prior to commencing this role, a current registration issued under the Working with Vulnerable People (Background Checking) Act 2011 is required.
- Undergo a pre-employment National Police Check.
- Comply with Canberra Health Services Occupational Assessment, Screening and Vaccination policy.
How to apply:
Applications must be submitted through the e-recruitment system;
- Applications must include a copy of a current CV and details for at least 2 professional referees
- A maximum two page pitch outlining your skills, knowledge, and experience and why you should be considered for this role. You should take into consideration the selection criteria (below) when drafting your response.
- Where possible include specific relevant examples of your work.
To be eligible for permanent employment within the ACT Public Service you must be an Australian citizen or a permanent resident”
What you require:
These are the key selection criteria for how you will be assessed in conjunction with your CV and experience.
- Demonstrated extensive and recent clinical experience, including assessment of patients with complex physical, psychosocial, cultural, emotional and spiritual needs and the development of patient centred care plans informed by evidence, and consistent with the values, goals and preferences of the patient.
- Demonstrated advanced clinical problem solving abilities with the ability to make decisions with minimal supervision.
- Proven experience in providing education to nursing and other health care staff in a variety of settings e.g. in-service programs, one on one education and conference/seminar presentation.
- Proven ability in quality management, nursing practice review, clinical research and policy development. Able to practice within the National Palliative Care Standards
- Well-developed communication and interpersonal skills working within a multidisciplinary team, including an ability to lead and mentor other nursing staff.
- Computer literacy and an understanding of clinical management systems, word and spreadsheets.
- Demonstrated commitment to and understanding of the principles of quality management, clinical research and policy development in the palliative aged care health care setting.
- Demonstrates understanding of, and adherence to, safety and quality standards, work, health and safety (WH&S) and the positive patient experience. Displays behaviour consistent with CHS’s values of reliable, progressive, respectful and kind.
If you would like further information regarding this opportunity, please contact Angela Devlin, angela.devlin@act.gov.au
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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Job
: Allied Health
Salary Range
: 140,121.00 - 140,121.00
Closing Date
: 17/May/2024, 1:59:00 PM
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