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:

https://www.health.act.gov.au/

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.

Specific responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following.

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.

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. Monitor relevant Key Performance Indicators, quality data and formulate, in collaboration with the Intensive Care Leadership team, appropriate management plans to achieve these.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. Undertake other duties appropriate to this level of classification which contribute to the operation of the organisation.

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.