Assistant Director of Nursing, Justice Health

3 weeks ago


Canberra, Australia ACT Government Full time

**Assistant Director of Nursing, Justice Health**
**Full-time Permanent**:
**Closes: 05 May 2023**:
**Classification**: Registered Nurse Level 4.3
**Salary**: $149,388 plus superannuation
**Position No**: 28555 - 029YL
**Directorate**: Canberra Health Services
**Advertised (Gazettal date)**: 11 April 2023

**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

**POSITION OVERVIEW**

Justice Health Services (JHS) is a unit of the Mental Health, Justice Health and Alcohol & Drug Services (MHJHADS) Division of Canberra Health Services. It is a contemporary evidence-based service that provides high quality health care to people involved in the criminal justice system. The service aims to provide collaborative, equitable, comprehensive holistic health care that involves the patient and other key stakeholders and services.

JHS provides primary health services and specialist mental health services to people in the criminal justice system in a range of settings including the courts, custody, youth detention and community settings. Custodial Health - Primary Health provides primary, drug and alcohol, complex, and population health services to people in custody and facilitates access to specialist and allied health services while Custodial Mental Health provides mental health screening, psychiatry services, and crisis mental health services to people in custody.

At this level you will be expected to provide leadership of the clinical operations of the primary health services at the Alexander Maconochie Centre and Bimberi Youth Justice Centre. This includes providing oversight of the day-to-day management of human, financial, and material resources to deliver primary, drug and alcohol, complex, and population health care, as well as leadership in the areas of clinical governance, strategic planning, quality improvement, and service development. As Assistant Director of Nursing you will also be responsible for providing professional support to JHS nursing professionals including clinical oversight of all aspects of nursing practice and care to ensure compliance with professional standards and policies and procedures relating to nursing practice, to safeguard the provision of safe, efficient, contemporary, and high-quality health care services to people in custody.

**ABOUT YOU**

**Behavioural Capabilities**
- Ability to effectively lead and communicate with influence.
- Highly motivated to undertake strategic service improvement initiatives
- Ability to respond to fluctuating strategic and operational demands in a calm and efficient manner

**Position Requirements/Qualifications**:
**Mandatory**
- Unconditional registration (or eligibility for registration) with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia via the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) with a minimum of 5 years post qualification experience.
- Current driver licence.
- 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.

**Desirable**
- Experience in an operational management role within a health setting.
- Post graduate qualifications in a field that relates to this position.
- Have an understanding of how the National Standards and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) indicators align with this role.
- Fulfil the responsibilities of this role as detailed in the CHS Exceptional Care Framework, Clinical Governance Framework, Partnering With Consumers Framework and all other related frameworks.
- Undergo a pre-employment National Police Check.
- Obtain a Compliance Certificate from OMU (Occupational Medicine Unit) relating to assessment, screening, and vaccination processes against specified infectious diseases.

**Career interest categories**:
Healthcare, Medical and Allied Services



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