22456-02KJD

Closes: 17 January 2025

Classification: Registered Nurse Level 2
Salary: $109,637 - $115,894 plus superannuation
Position No: 22456-02KJD
Directorate: Canberra Health Services
Advertised (Gazettal date): 13 December 2024
Contact Officer: Megan Faulks on Megan.A.Faulks@act.gov.au or 0481 452 285

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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 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).

To find out more on what a career at CHS can give you, the benefits of working with us and why Canberra is Australia's happiest city click here: Benefits of working with us - Canberra Health Services (act.gov.au)

About the Role:

Are you an experienced Paediatric Registered Nurse, looking for your next step in your career? This could be the role for you!

The Paediatric Ambulatory Care area offers diverse opportunities for professional enrichment and skill development. This is a rewarding and challenging opportunity available for a suitably qualified Registered Nurse to work in the in Paediatric Outpatient Clinics Paediatric with the possibility for shifts in Day Stay Unit as required. There is an opportunity for skill development in Paediatric orthopaedic fracture care due to growth in clinical service delivery in this specialty. The successful candidate would be supported by the Paediatric education team and fracture clinic staff (medical officers, nursing and allied health) to enhance their skills in this specialty.

Additionally, the Outpatient nurse has specialty skills including chronic care, management of burns, gastrostomy and enteral feeding care, endocrine, dermatology, immunology, ophthalmology, cystic fibrosis, IBD clinics. The skill opportunities in Paediatric Day Stay include rapid flow day stay elective and emergency surgical procedures: pre-and post-operative care, oncology, haematology, rheumatology, immunology, sedation for procedures, endocrine dynamic testing.

The Ambulatory care area is open Monday to Friday and is closed on public holidays.

For more information regarding the position duties click here for the Position Description.

Please note prior to commencement successful candidates will be required to:

• Undergo a pre-employment National Police Check.
• Comply with Canberra Health Services Occupational Assessment, Screening and Vaccination policy.

Note: This is a temporary position available for a period of six 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.

The new state-of-the-art Building 5 is now officially open at Canberra Hospital. This 44,000sqm, nine-storey facility, the largest healthcare infrastructure project in the Territory’s history, delivers cutting-edge acute clinical services. Building 5 seamlessly integrates with existing campus buildings, ensuring smooth public access, patient transportation, and efficient logistics.

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Note

This is a temporary position available for a period of six months with the possibility of extension up to 12 months and/or permanency.

Career interest categories:

Healthcare, Medical and Allied Services
Nursing