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 36-bed level 3 Territory Referral Centre, which admits over 2700 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.

Specific responsibilities include but are not limited to the following.

• Strong organisational skills with a high degree of drive with the ability to effectively prioritise work and meet deadlines
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.

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

Essential

• Relevant Tertiary or relevant qualifications
• Be registered or be eligible for registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA).

Desirable

• Post Graduate Certificate in Critical care nursing or working towards

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

Essential

• Minimum of 5 years’ fulltime equivalent experience working professionally working in nursing
• Prior experience in nursing leadership
• Experience or knowledge of the CHS Exceptional Care Framework, Clinical Governance Framework, and all other related frameworks.

Desirable

• Have an understanding of how the National Safety and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) indicators align with this role.

Appointment to this position is conditional on being granted and retaining appropriate clearances.

• Pre-employment National Police Check.
• Registration issued under the Working with Vulnerable People (Background Checking) Act 2011 is required.
• Comply with Canberra Health Services Occupational Assessment, Screening and Vaccination policy.

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.

These are the key selection criteria for how you will be assessed in conjunction with your resumé and experience.

1. Proven ability in nursing leadership to facilitate cultural and organisational change in the Intensive Care Unit.
2. Demonstrated ability to manage and achieve performance indicators in the management of quality and risk and innovative problem-solving skills in service delivery.
3. Demonstrated recent comprehensive management of human, financial and physical resources
4. 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.
5. 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.

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	Never
Sitting at a desk	Frequently
Standing for long periods	Occasionally

Travel	Frequency
Frequent travel – multiple work sites	Never
Frequent travel – driving	Never

Physical demands	Frequency
Distance walking (large buildings or inter-building transit)	Occasionally
Working outdoors	Never

Psychosocial demands	Frequency
Distressed People e.g. Emergency or grief situations	Frequently
Aggressive & Uncooperative People e.g. drug / alcohol, dementia, mental illness	Frequently
Unpredictable People e.g. Dementia, mental illness, head injuries	Frequently
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	Frequently

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	Occasionally
Low lighting	Occasionally
Handling of dangerous goods/equipment e.g. gases; liquids; biological.	Occasionally
Slippery or uneven surfaces	Never

Manual handling	Frequency
Lifting 0 – 9kg	Frequently
Lifting 10 – 15kg	Frequently
Lifting 16kg+	Occasionally
Climbing	Never
Running	Never
Reaching	Never
Kneeling	Never
Foot and leg movement	Occasionally
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	Occasionally