Position overview
The Intensive Care Unit is a 31-bed level 3 Territory Referral Centre, which admits over 1900 patients a year. The Intensive Care Unit has unlimited accreditation with the College of Intensive Care Medicine of Australia and New Zealand for training in intensive care and has advanced trainees providing after hours cover. The Intensive Care Unit is a core member of ANZICS.
The unit satisfies College requirements for training in Neurosurgery, Cardiothoracics and Trauma.
The unit participates in international multi-disciplinary and multi-center research. The unit has a strong commitment to teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate and research with excellent opportunities for collaborative research.
CHS is the single tertiary teaching hospital for the Australian Capital Territory and surrounding NSW region serving a population in excess of 650 000.
The Clinical Nurse Consultant of the Intensive Care Unit provides a high-level of support in the day-to-day operational management of services within the unit, including patient flow, care coordination, staff performance and rostering. This is an evolving role that provides expert clinical leadership and management within a nursing and multidisciplinary team, embeds, and maintains the National Safety and Quality in Health Service Standards at the unit level, develops and maintains collaborative partnerships with internal and external stakeholders.
The Clinical Nurse Consultant reports to the Assistant Director of Nursing, Intensive Care Unit. The successful candidate will need to establish commitment to achieve the unit’s key performance indicators and demonstrate a high level of personal motivation. Another critical role is the efficient management of manpower and resources within the unit ensuring success in care delivery in line with the policies, procedures, and legislative requirements.
Key Responsibilities
Under limited direction of the Assistant Director of Nursing, Intensive Care Unit, you are responsible in providing advanced clinical and professional leadership in delivering exceptional healthcare and multidisciplinary collaboration within the Intensive Care Unit of Canberra Health Services.
- Provide strong leadership, direction, planning and operational input into service delivery using best available evidence on a broad range of services provided within the Intensive Care Unit.
- Provide support and actively contribute to the development and monitoring of workforce professional practice including models of care, statutory obligations, professional development, education, research, clinical teaching, practice development and clinical supervision opportunities for all nursing staff within the Intensive Care Unit.
- Provide clinical governance leadership and work collaboratively with the Intensive Care Leadership team to ensure appropriate clinical processes are implemented in the Intensive Care Unit including the development of clinical guidelines, procedures and policy documents.
- Lead, coordinate, and work in partnership with the multidisciplinary team to facilitate change management initiatives to achieve the strategic objectives of Division of Surgery, Canberra Health Service and to achieve the National Safety and Quality in Health Service Standards.
- Monitor relevant Key Performance Indicators, quality data and formulate, in collaboration with the Intensive Care Leadership team, appropriate management plans to achieve these.
- Works in partnership with the Intensive Care Unit, Assistant Director of Nursing, Nurse Unit Manager and Clinical Support Nurse regarding operational decisions relating to nursing budgets, staffing and resource utilisation.
- Liaise with the ICU leadership team in planning and coordinating staffing resources by ensuring daily rostering practices will provide adequate skill-mix, monitoring and take responsibility of staffing levels and participate in staff recruitment, orientation, and staff development programs.
- Undertake other duties appropriate to this level of classification which contribute to the operation of the organisation.
Competencies
Specific responsibilities include but are not limited to the following.
- Exceptional organisational skills with a high degree of drive
- Adaptability and flexibility to accommodate change and provide timely feedback to meet client needs
- Excellent communication skills to improve and sustain valuable partnerships with strategic stakeholders.
- Strong leadership skills and role modelling behaviours consistent with the Vision and Values of Canberra Health Services.
Qualifications
Specific responsibilities include but are not limited to the following.
Essential:
- Registered as a Registered Nurse with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA).
Desirable:
- Post Graduate Certificate in Critical care nursing or working towards the Master’s level.
- Have an understanding of how the National Safety and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) indicators align with this role.
- Experience or knowledge of the CHS Exceptional Care Framework, and all other related frameworks.
Experience
- 5 years’ Work experience in acute clinical setting.
- Leadership and management experience in a hospital-based critical care environment.
Please note prior to commencement successful candidates will be required to:
- Pre-employment National Police Check.
- Comply with Canberra Health Services Occupational Assessment, Screening and Vaccination policy.
Important information
All employees are required to:
- Adhere to the Canberra Health Services Values and the ACT Public Service Code of Conduct
- Act in accordance and comply with all relevant Safety and Quality policies and procedures.
- Comply with all relevant clinical and/or competency standards.
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.
What you Require (Key Selection Criteria)
These are the key selection criteria for how you will be assessed in conjunction with your resumé and experience:
- Proven ability in nursing leadership to facilitate cultural and organisational change in the Intensive Care Unit.
- Demonstrated ability to manage and achieve performance indicators in the management of quality and risk and innovative problem-solving skills in service delivery.
- Demonstrated recent comprehensive management of human, financial and physical resources
- Proven record of behaviour and attitude consistent with professional standards and the commitment and ability in the development of a learning, teaching and research orientated work environment.
- 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.
Work environment description
The following work environment description outlines the inherent requirements of the role and indicates how frequently each of these requirements would need to be performed. Please note that the ACT Public Service is committed to providing reasonable adjustments and ensuring all individuals have equal opportunities in the workplace.
| Administrative | Frequency |
|---|---|
| Telephone use | Frequently |
| General computer use | Frequently |
| Extensive keying/data entry | Frequently |
| Graphical/analytical based | Occasionally |
| Frequently Sitting at a desk | Frequently |
| Standing for long periods | Occasionally |
| Psychosocial demands | Frequency |
|---|---|
| Distressed People e.g. Emergency or grief situations | Occasionally |
| Aggressive & Uncooperative People e.g. drug / alcohol, dementia, mental illness | Occasionally |
| Unpredictable People e.g. Dementia, mental illness, head injuries | Occasionally |
| Restraining e.g. involvement in physical containment of clients/consumers | Occasionally |
| Exposure to Distressing Situations e.g. Child abuse, viewing dead / mutilated bodies; verbal abuse; domestic violence; suicide | Occasionally |
| Physical demands | Frequency |
|---|---|
| Distance walking (large buildings or inter-building transit) | Occasionally |
| Working outdoors | Never |
| Manual handling | Frequency |
|---|---|
| Lifting 0 - 9kg | Occasionally |
| Lifting 10 - 15kg | Never |
| Lifting 16kg+ | Never |
| Climbing | Never |
| Running | Never |
| Reaching | Never |
| Kneeling | Never |
| Foot and leg movement | Frequently |
| Hand, arm and grasping movements | Occasionally |
| Bending/squatting | Occasionally |
| Bend/Lean Forward from Waist/Trunk twisting | Occasionally |
| Push/pull | Occasionally |
| Sequential repetitive movements in a short amount of time | Frequently |
| Travel | Frequency |
|---|---|
| Frequent travel – multiple work sites | Never |
| Frequent travel – driving | Never |
| Specific hazards | Frequency |
|---|---|
| Working at heights | Never |
| Exposure to extreme temperatures | Never |
| Operation of heavy machinery e.g. forklift | Never |
| Confined spaces | Never |
| Excessive noise | Never |
| Low lighting | Occasionally |
| Handling of dangerous goods/equipment e.g. gases; liquids; biological. | Frequently |
| Slippery or uneven surfaces | Occasionally |
Directorate: Canberra Health Services
Division: Surgery
Business Unit: Intensive Care Unit
Position number: P22376
Position title: Clinical Nurse Consultant
Classification: Registered Nurse Level 3 Grade 2
Location: Canberra Health Services
Reporting relationships: Direct Manager: ADON Division of Surgery
Manager +1: DON, Nursing and Midwifery Services
Canberra Health Services (CHS) is focussed on the delivery of high quality, effective, person-centred care. We provide acute, sub-acute, primary and community‐based health services, to the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) and surrounding regions. More information can be found on the CHS website.
We are committed to workforce diversity and creating an inclusive workplace.
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