(520064) — Mul­ti­ple Vacancies

The Launce­s­ton Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal (LGH) is Tas­ma­ni­a’s sec­ond largest hos­pi­tal and the major refer­ral cen­tre for North­ern Tas­ma­nia, oper­at­ing with­in its des­ig­nat­ed role in the Tas­man­ian Role Delin­eation Frame­work as a Lev­el 5 hos­pi­tal. With approx­i­mate­ly 350 beds (exclud­ing men­tal health inpa­tient beds), the LGH pro­vides inpa­tient and ambu­la­to­ry ser­vices to Launce­s­ton and sur­round­ing areas, and is the largest employ­er in the region with around 4000 staff.

The LGH forms part of Hos­pi­tals North and is under­pinned by our val­ues of Com­pas­sion, Account­abil­i­ty, Respect and Excel­lence. Togeth­er, our val­ues spell CARE. Our CARE val­ues focus on the impor­tance of care, com­pas­sion and kind­ness towards one anoth­er and the com­mu­ni­ty as we strive to deliv­er safe, qual­i­ty care and services.

The Role:

The Reg­is­tered Nurse:

• Strength­ens health out­comes through the pro­vi­sion of safe qual­i­ty, clin­i­cal­ly appro­pri­ate nurs­ing care in part­ner­ship with patients/​clients, their fam­i­lies and oth­er health professionals.

Note: — Please refer to the State­ment of Duties for all the selec­tion cri­te­ria of this posi­tion to address in your application.

The Team:

The Emer­gency Depart­ment (ED) of the LGH is a new­ly com­plet­ed rede­vel­oped 43 treat­ment space ED which now accom­mo­dates 3 resus­ci­ta­tion areas with full radi­ol­o­gy capa­bil­i­ty, Fast track staffed by a Nurse Prac­ti­tion­er, Iso­la­tion Rooms, Acute and Sub-acute treat­ment areas and a sep­a­rate pae­di­atric wait­ing room. If you see your­self thriv­ing in the Emer­gency Depart­ment, check out the video attached for more details. Please Click here

• Diverse and inclu­sive team of staff with a high focus on cre­at­ing a sup­port­ive and pos­i­tive work­ing environment.
• Strong mul­ti-dis­ci­pli­nary team­work and communication
• Encour­ag­ing team that pro­motes ongo­ing edu­ca­tion and train­ing for all staff in the unit

Details of Appointment: 

Mul­ti­ple Per­ma­nent, full time and part time, shift-worker(fully rota­tion­al) posi­tions work­ing up to 76 hours per fort­night com­menc­ing from a mutu­al­ly agreed date

*notwith­stand­ing hours may be nego­ti­at­ed with the suc­cess­ful applicant

• Appli­cants should note that, for a peri­od of twelve months from the date of pub­li­ca­tion, this selec­tion process may be used to fill sub­se­quent or fixed term full time, part time and casu­al vacancies.

Salary: $75,902 — $102,908 pro rata per annum. Our Employ­er 11.5% super­an­nu­a­tion con­tri­bu­tion is on top of this amount.

You’ll have access to salary pack­age a range of ben­e­fits includ­ing liv­ing expens­es up to $9,010 + $2,650 in meal enter­tain­ment each FBT year + oth­er ben­e­fits if eligible. 

• Access to the Grade 4 salary range $96,558 — $102,908 is sub­ject to suc­cess­ful appli­ca­tion for pro­gres­sion to Grade 4
• Pay­ment of $15,000 staged over three years is avail­able for Nurs­es and Mid­wives who move to Tas­ma­nia from inter­state and remain employed full time for three years or more, on top of relo­ca­tion allowance already available.

In addi­tion, the fol­low­ing allowances cal­cu­lat­ed on the salaried incre­men­tal point may be available:

• Post Grad­u­ate Allowance of up to 10% based on qual­i­fi­ca­tion type 

• Salary range is in accor­dance with Nurs­es and Mid­wives (Tas­man­ian State Ser­vice) Agree­ment 2023

Eli­gi­bil­i­ty:

Suc­cess­ful appli­cants will be required to meet the essen­tial criteria:

• Reg­is­tered with the Nurs­ing and Mid­wifery Board of Aus­tralia as a Reg­is­tered Nurse

The Head of the State Ser­vice has deter­mined that the per­son nom­i­nat­ed for this job is to sat­is­fy a pre‑employment check before tak­ing up the appoint­ment, on pro­mo­tion or trans­fer. The fol­low­ing checks are to be conducted:

1. Con­vic­tion checks in the fol­low­ing areas:

1. crimes of violence
2. sex relat­ed offences
3. seri­ous drug offences
4. crimes involv­ing dishonesty

1. Iden­ti­fi­ca­tion check
2. Dis­ci­pli­nary action in pre­vi­ous employ­ment check.

How to Apply

Apply Online. Please click the ​“Apply” but­ton at https://careers.pageuppeople.c… This ensures impor­tant ques­tions about you are answered. 

APPLI­CA­TIONS CLOSE 30TH SEP­TEM­BER 2024

You will be prompt­ed to com­plete a 1 – 2 page appli­ca­tion out­lin­ing your expe­ri­ence, skills and knowl­edge as they relate to the attached State­ment of Duties.

Please note:

• We do not require a sep­a­rate state­ment address­ing the selec­tion criteria.
• All attach­ments must be in Microsoft Word or PDF format.
• Ref­er­ee details are sub­mit­ted as part of the online appli­ca­tion so make sure you have the con­tact details of two ref­er­ees before applying.

Down­load the State­ment of Duties and any Asso­ci­at­ed Documents

We encour­age you to review the Appli­cant Guide, State­ment of Duties, pri­or to apply­ing for an overview of the duties, pro­gram, selec­tion process and selec­tion criteria.

State­ment of Duties

• Gener­ic Reg­is­tered Nurse G3-G4 (July 2023) CSU (18).pdf
• Gener­ic Reg­is­tered Nurse G3-G4 (July 2023) CSU (33).docx

Appli­cant Guide

• Depart­ment of Health — Appli­cant Guide June 22.pdf
• Depart­ment of Health — Appli­cant Guide June 22.docx

For more infor­ma­tion, please contact

Melis­sa Cripps
Posi­tion: Nurs­ing Direc­tor — Crit­i­cal and Acute Inpa­tient Ser­vices
Phone: (03) 6777 6875
E‑mail: mel.​cripps@​ths.​tas.​gov.​au