Icu Staff Specialist for Intensive Care at Home

**Staff specialist (ICU) for INTENSIVE CARE AT HOME**

Employment Type: Contractor basis or Permanent part time

Hours per week: 20 Hours per week

Position Grade: Staff Specialist

**Salary**: As per Staff Specialist Award or contractor rates negotiable

The organisation: INTENSIVE CARE AT HOME

**Position Summary**:
A vacancy exists within INTENSIVE CARE AT HOME for a highly motivated Staff Specialist with appropriate knowledge and skills to join our friendly and supportive team.

Our progressive and innovative team offers development opportunities for our staff and a caring environment for the delivery of high-quality patient centered care for long-term intensive care patients in the home.

The successful applicant(s) will be responsible for the medical cover for our growing client base in the community either via Telehealth or with in-person visits. Other responsibilities include to explore and develop new business opportunities.

**A particular interest in the following is essential**:

- Long-term ventilated adults and children with tracheostomies in the home
- Non
- invasive ventilation bipap/cpap at home
- Tracheostomy care
- Supporting 24/7 ICU/PICU nurses in the home
- 24-hour remote monitoring
- Home TPN
- CVC, PICC, Hickman's and Port management in the home
- IV fluids and iv antibiotics at home
- Psychosocial care
- Enteral feeding
- Palliative care for Intensive care patients

The successful applicant(s) will contribute to managing KPI’s, service standards, patient throughput, business growth, continuing education, research, as well as liaison with key stakeholders and other relevant professional bodies.

This position requires a Working with Children Check (WWCC), NDIS Worker Screen and Police Record check.

The vacancy is open to Australian citizens, New Zealand citizens who hold a valid New Zealand passport, Australian permanent residents and those non-residents deemed by the Department of Immigration and Citizenship to be eligible to work in Australia only.

**About INTENSIVE CARE AT HOME**

INTENSIVE CARE AT HOME is proud to be the first accredited intensive care at home nursing service in Australia. Having a proven, innovative, safe and solid 3rd party accredited framework to deliver intensive care at home nursing care enables us to look after the highest acuity and sickest patients in the community in Australia.

This proven model of care is revolutionising health care and intensive care at a rapid speed, creating value for patients, families, ICU’s/PICU’s, Hospitals and funding bodies alike.

The intellectual property we have built for intensive care at home nursing services enables us to attract the best, most motivated, enthusiastic and most amazing ICU/PICU nurses.

INTENSIVE CARE AT HOME is therefore in a position to employ a team with hundreds of years of ICU/PICU experience, giving us the ability to look after more and more long-term ICU/PICU Patients at home, which has been formerly unheard of until 2014 in Australia.

**THE OPPORTUNITY**

To join our friendly and passionate team at INTENSIVE CARE AT HOME, you must have proven experience at an ICU consultant level, have a genuine interest in and respect for the unique personality, history, and values of our clients, have the capacity to build secure and trustworthy relationships with both patient, family members and our nursing team, be flexible with the ability to adapt to change and be a positive team player.

We are committed to equal employment opportunity, ethical practices, and the principles of cultural diversity and promote a smoke free work environment.

**What we offer**:

- Competitive salary
- Career development opportunity within a new and innovative field
- Employee Assistance Program
- Work/Life balance

**Selection Criteria**:

- Possess, or be eligible to possess, specialist registration with the Medical Board of Australia (MBA);
- Possess Fellowship of the College of Intensive Care Medicine (FCICM) or equivalent as provided for in the Staff Specialist's State award
- Demonstrated knowledge, skills, and high standards of clinical practice in Intensive Care Medicine commensurate to experience which is appropriate to the requirements of the position: possess experience at consultant level in the management of critically ill Patients.
- Demonstrated commitment to teaching and ongoing professional development.
- Demonstrated leadership skills that support and foster innovation to create a learning culture, with proven ability to improve the quality of services and patient care outcomes, including overseeing and interpreting intensive care databases and generating reports from these;
- Demonstrated ability to provide high quality compassionate medical care as evidenced by recent practice experience in working congenially and collaboratively as both a leader and member of a multidisciplinary team, and as a provider of services that engender high levels of patient satisfaction and experience;
- Demonstrated ongoi