The Division of Cancer & Ambulatory Support provides a comprehensive range of cancer screening, assessment, diagnostic and treatment services and palliative care through inpatient, outpatient and community settings. The Division is also responsible for the support functions for organisational ambulatory care including the Central Intake team, central outpatients and transcription.

Cancer services are divided into five clinical streams: Medical Oncology, Radiation Oncology, Haematology, Immunology and Palliative Care.

The Clinical Nurse Consultant for Palliative and Cancer Supportive Care is responsible for providing an effective, efficient and contemporary leadership to the Palliative and Cancer Supportive Care Teams and ensuring the provision of a support service to people and their families undergoing cancer treatment from a new diagnosis to end of life care. The teams comprise highly skilled nurses, social workers and psychologists providing services to people in the hospital, as outpatients and in the community.

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

Under limited direction of the Assistant Director of Nursing – inpatient services you will:

1. Provide expert advice, professional support, contemporary management and model leadership to the interdisciplinary team as part of Cancer & Ambulatory Support Division including;
   • Fostering an environment which actively encourages the development of expert nursing, psychology and social work skills and professional development within the area
   • Supporting a positive workplace culture and environment.
2. Provide leadership for the development, management, reporting and evaluation of team activity against targets and governance requirements, and is responsible and accountable for the allocation and reporting of financial, human and material resources.
3. Lead, initiate, develop, implement and evaluate work processes and clinical practice standards, policies and standard operating procedures with professional leads, senior management, staff and consumers relevant to the clinical area and within CAS and Canberra Health Services governance frameworks
4. Develop and maintain collaborative partnerships with relevant providers to provide safe, effective and high-quality services and meet funding agreement requirements.
5. Ensure adequate clinical supervision is in place for individuals and teams as required.
6. Collaborate, initiate, support and participate in the development of quality improvement, policy and strategic service plans, risk management and research activities. Ensure that these are implemented and evaluated in consultation with Assistant Director of Nursing CAS.
7. Comply with and report against the required KPIs in relation to Workplace Safety, Workplace Diversity and Industrial Democracy principle and practices. Commitment to the values of Canberra Health Services.
8. Undertake other duties appropriate to the level of classification which contribute to the operate of the section.

Specific responsibilities include but are not limited to the following.

• Managing and positively influencing teams, processes and practice improvement.
• Adaptability and flexibility to accommodate change and provide responsive services to meet patients’ needs
• Highly organised and self-motivated
• Strong ability to work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team, with a high level of verbal and written communication skills
• Nursing rostering and scheduling

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

Essential

• Tertiary qualification in nursing
• Registered or eligible for registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA).

Desirable

• Post graduate qualification in nursing management or leadership

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

Essential

• Minimum of 5 years’ work experience in a nursing role
• 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.
• Evidence of nursing registration with AHPRA
• 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.

Insert a maximum of five criteria required for success in the role for the candidate to address. For help in developing selection criteria visit this guide.

1. Experience and demonstrated ability to perform at an advanced clinical level with leading and developing an inter-disciplinary team to deliver high quality efficient services.
2. Knowledge of trends and issues relating to cancer support services and health care innovations and experience in developing, implementing and evaluating models of service delivery.
3. Proven high level of interpersonal, communication and leadership skills within an inter-disciplinary team and the ability to establish and foster professional relationships with clients, internal and external service providers.
4. Demonstrated conceptual and innovative problem-solving skills in service delivery, human resource management, clinical governance, quality and risk management.
5. Demonstrates understanding of, and adherence to, safety and quality standards, Work Health and Safety 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	Occasionally
Graphical/analytical based	Occasionally
Sitting at a desk	Frequently
Standing for long periods	Occasionally

Travel	Frequency
Frequent travel – multiple work sites	Occasionally
Frequent travel – driving	Occasionally

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

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	Never
Exposure to Distressing Situations e.g. Child abuse, viewing dead / mutilated bodies; verbal abuse; domestic violence; suicide	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	Never
Handling of dangerous goods/equipment e.g. gases; liquids; biological.	Never
Slippery or uneven surfaces	Never

Manual handling	Frequency
Lifting 0 – 9kg	Occasionally
Lifting 10 – 15kg	Never
Lifting 16kg+	Never
Climbing	Never
Running	Never
Reaching	Occasionally
Kneeling	Occasionally
Foot and leg movement	Frequently
Hand, arm and grasping movements	Frequently
Bending/squatting	Occasionally
Bend/Lean Forward from Waist/Trunk twisting	Occasionally
Push/pull	Occasionally
Sequential repetitive movements in a short amount of time	Never