ROLE STATEMENT. The Grade 1 Physiotherapist will be involved in rotations across Northern Hospital Epping, Broadmeadows Hospital, Craigieburn Centre and Bundoora Centre. There are a total of 23 rotations across Northern Health’s site offering acute, subacute and community/outpatient rotations (centre based & home based therapy). This role may be included in a four month rotation in which one of the five working days is rostered on the weekend. It may also involve doing home visits and servicing Northern Health clients at Kilmore District Hospital or Aged Care Facilities (partner organization). Working together with their supervisors and senior staff, the Grade 1 Physiotherapist will provide quality client care through the application of competent clinical skills in assessment, planning, implementation of treatment and management for clients in their designated work area. The Grade 1 will be involved in service improvement within the physiotherapy department through participating in projects to develop the service further. The role will require staff to be flexible with their working hours to meet the changing operational demands and can include working after hours, on weekends and public holidays. Staff will be required to travel and work across the various Northern Health campuses, programs, and partner organisations. All employees: Quality, Safety, Risk and Continuous Improvement • Maintain an understanding of individual responsibility for patient safety, quality & risk and contribute to organisational quality and safety initiatives • Follow organisational safety, quality & risk policies and guidelines • Maintain a safe working environment for yourself, your colleagues and members of the public. • Maintain an understanding of individual responsibility for patient safety, quality & risk as outlined in Northern Health Clinical Governance & Patient Experience - Trusted Care • Contribute to organisational quality and safety initiatives. • Escalate concerns regarding safety, quality & risk to appropriate staff member, if unable to rectify yourself. • Promote and participate in the evaluation and continuous improvement processes. • Comply with principles of Patient Centred Care. • Comply with Northern Health mandatory continuing professional development requirements. • Comply with requirement of National Safety & Quality Health Service Standards and other relevant regulatory requirements. • All employees of Northern Health must comply with the health service’s Staff Health / ...
ROLE STATEMENT. The Registered Nurse or Midwife will be accountable for the delivery of quality patient care and outcomes in a manner consistent with the professional code of conduct, legal requirements and organisational policies and procedures, within a framework of continuous quality improvement, and economic resource utilisation. The Grade 2 Registered Nurse and \or Midwife will work within scope of practice guidelines. All employees: Quality, Safety, Risk and Continuous Improvement • Maintain an understanding of individual responsibility for patient safety, quality & risk and contribute to organisational quality and safety initiatives • Follow organisational safety, quality & risk policies and guidelines • Maintain a safe working environment for yourself, your colleagues and members of the public. • Maintain an understanding of individual responsibility for patient safety, quality & risk as outlined in Northern Health Clinical Governance & Patient Experience – Trusted care procedure. • Contribute to organisational quality and safety initiatives. • Escalate concerns regarding safety, quality & risk to appropriate staff member, if unable to rectify yourself. • Promote and participate in the evaluation and continuous improvement processes. • Comply with principles of Patient Centred Care. • Comply with Northern Health mandatory continuing professional development requirements. • Comply with requirement of National Safety & Quality Health Service Standards and other relevant regulatory requirements. • All employees of Northern Health must comply with the health service’s Staff Health / Workforce Immunisation procedure (as amended from time to time) together with any relevant State Government and Departmental directives. This requires all employees to be vaccinated for various diseases such as, but not limited to influenza and Covid-19.
ROLE STATEMENT. The Grade 2 Speech Pathologist is accountable for providing a high standard of clinical services to Northern Health clients through the application of competent clinical skills in the assessment, planning, implementation of treatment and management of communication and swallowing disorders in the adult population. The Grade 2 Speech Pathologist will be an active member of the multidisciplinary team and promote Speech Pathology skills and services within relevant settings. They will support the development of staff and students and will be actively involved in quality projects and research across Northern Health sites. They will be expected to work with skilled clinicians from other clinical areas, internal and external to Northern Health. The role will require staff to be flexible with their working hours to meet the changing operational demands and can include working after hours, on weekends and public holidays. Staff will be required to travel and work across the various Northern Health campuses, programs, and partner organisations. Compliance with mandatory training as per NH Policy is a requirement of this role. Failure to complete this training within required timeframes may result in a suspension of duties until training is completed. This position is responsible for: • Providing high quality assessment and management of Northern Health patients presenting with disorders of communication and swallowing • Supervising staff and students • Developing relationships and representing Speech Pathology on internal and external collaborations • Promoting and participating in quality improvement processes All employees: Quality, Safety, Risk and Continuous Improvement • Maintain an understanding of individual responsibility for patient safety, quality & risk and contribute to organisational quality and safety initiatives • Follow organisational safety, quality & risk policies and guidelines • Maintain a safe working environment for yourself, your colleagues and members of the public. • Maintain an understanding of individual responsibility for patient safety, quality & risk as outlined in Northern Health Clinical Governance & Patient Experience - Trusted Care • Contribute to organisational quality and safety initiatives. • Escalate concerns regarding safety, quality & risk to appropriate staff member, if unable to rectify yourself. • Promote and participate in the evaluation and continuous improvement processes. • Comply with principles of Patient Centred Car...
ROLE STATEMENT. The Grade 1 or 2 Dietitian Clinical Skills • Demonstrate a client focus in the provision of care. • Assess client, plan and implement appropriate intervention at Grade one or two level with limited support, in the area of adult nutrition • Involve clients and carers’ in decision making regarding their care and negotiate agreed plans of action. • Provide specialist dietetics services and facilitates discharge planning for in- and out-patients • Integrates evidence based practice into clinical work • Provide a patient focus in the provision of services and care. • Utilize negotiation and conflict resolution skills. • Maintain knowledge of relevant community resources, information and referral processes, and utilise this knowledge in clinical practice. • Record appropriate information and outcomes (e.g. in medical histories) in an accurate and timely manner. • Provide written reports to relevant outside organisations as required. • Practice within relevant professional and ethical standards. • Possess an understanding of culturally and linguistically diverse communities (CALD) • Maintain in the client’s histories, a written record of progress as required as set out in “Northern Health Allied Health Documentation Standards Policy”. Supervision/Professional Leadership • Represent discipline/allied health on working parties, committees and meetings as required • Act as a role model/mentor for others in the department • Participate in supervision in accordance with the Northern Health Allied Health supervision framework Teaching/Research/Training • Willing to participate in research projects • Actively participate in in-service training • To be responsible for education of undergraduate students, other undergraduate and hospital staff, and work experience students under the supervision and direction of the senior team members Maintenance of Equipment and Resources • Ensure equipment and resources are utilised and maintained according to departmental protocols • Be responsible for the prudent use of nutrition support products including oral nutrition supplements, enteral feeds and related products • Ensure resources including dietetics patient information sheets are developed, utlised and maintained according to departmental protocols General • Compliance with mandatory training as per NH Policy is a requirement of this role. Failure to complete this training within required timeframes may result in a suspension of duties until training is completed. All employees...
ROLE STATEMENT. The Enrolled Nurse (Endorsed) will be under the supervision (either direct or indirect) of a Registered Nurse is accountable for the delivery of delegated quality patient care and outcomes in a manner consistent with the professional code of conduct, legal requirements and organisational policies and procedures, within a framework of continuous quality improvement, and economic resource utilisation. Enrolled Nurse (Endorsed) will work within scope of practice guidelines. All employees: Quality, Safety, Risk and Continuous Improvement • Maintain an understanding of individual responsibility for patient safety, quality & risk and contribute to organisational quality and safety initiatives • Follow organisational safety, quality & risk policies and guidelines • Maintain a safe working environment for yourself, your colleagues and members of the public. • Maintain an understanding of individual responsibility for patient safety, quality & risk as outlined in Northern Health Clinical Governance & Patient Experience – Trusted care procedure. • Contribute to organisational quality and safety initiatives. • Escalate concerns regarding safety, quality & risk to an appropriate staff member, if unable to rectify yourself. • Promote and participate in the evaluation and continuous improvement processes. • Comply with principles of Patient Centred Care. • Comply with Northern Health mandatory continuing professional development requirements. • Comply with requirement of National Safety & Quality Health Service Standards and other relevant regulatory requirements. • All employees of Northern Health must comply with the health service’s Staff Health / Workforce Immunisation procedure (as amended from time to time) together with any relevant State Government and Departmental directives. This requires all employees to be vaccinated for various diseases such as, but not limited to influenza and Covid-19.
ROLE STATEMENT. The Registered Nurse will be accountable for the delivery of quality patient care and outcomes in a manner consistent with the professional code of conduct, legal requirements and organisational policies and procedures, within a framework of continuous quality improvement, and economic resource utilisation. The Grade 2 Registered Nurse will work within scope of practice guidelines. The STEP Registered Nurse will participate in all relevant program requirements including clinical hurdles, study days and assessment tasks. Continuation in the STEP Nursing contract is subject to successful completion of all clinical and theoretical components of the program All employees: Quality, Safety, Risk and Continuous Improvement • Maintain an understanding of individual responsibility for patient safety, quality & risk and contribute to organisational quality and safety initiatives • Follow organisational safety, quality & risk policies and guidelines • Maintain a safe working environment for yourself, your colleagues and members of the public. • Maintain an understanding of individual responsibility for patient safety, quality & risk as outlined in Northern Health Clinical Governance & Patient Experience - Trusted Care • Contribute to organisational quality and safety initiatives. • Escalate concerns regarding safety, quality & risk to appropriate staff member, if unable to rectify yourself. • Promote and participate in the evaluation and continuous improvement processes. • Comply with principles of Patient Centred Care. • Comply with Northern Health mandatory continuing professional development requirements. • Comply with requirement of National Safety & Quality Health Service Standards and other relevant regulatory requirements. • All employees of Northern Health must comply with the health service’s Staff Health / Workforce Immunisation procedure (as amended from time to time) together with any relevant State Government and Departmental directives. This requires all employees to be vaccinated for various diseases such as, but not limited to influenza and Covid-19.
ROLE STATEMENT. The Senior Clinician has a leadership role in the provision, organisation and development of cardiorespiratory physiotherapy services at Northern Hospital Epping and across Northern Health. Northern Hospital Epping provides services seven days a week that include; intensive care, coronary care, respiratory care, oncology, general medicine and general surgery as well as care of the COVID-19
ROLE STATEMENT. Reporting to the EMR Training Manager, this role will be responsible for the design, development and delivery of high quality and comprehensive training for clinical and certain non-clinical staff at Northern Health. Within your allocated Learning Stream, you will be required to deliver EMR training to end-users across all NH sites through a variety of modalities to ensure staff receives the correct level of training, relevant to their role and responsibilities, both prior and during the EMR ‘Go Live’. Additionally, you will be responsible for liaising with the EMR project team and other NH departments to implement agreed design and workflow processes while providing subject matter expertise to help facilitate safe clinical workflows. KEY WORKING RELATIONSHIPS Internal: • NH EMR Project team members • Chief Nursing Information Officer (CNIO) • Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO) • NH Executive, Clinical Leaders, Divisional Directors, Senior Clinicians and Management • Other NH clinical and non-clinical staff, educators, stakeholders, strategic partners, community participants, and/or contractors including Govt. Dept. representatives • NH Associate Director, Organisation Capability • NH Learning Management System (LMS) Administration and eLearning Design team External: • Vendor (Cerner) • EMR teams at other health services
ROLE STATEMENT. To manage, control and monitor the property maintenance functions for a designated number of properties within the Housing Management Services area as part of a team, ensuring compliance, accountability and quality control is maintained.
ROLE STATEMENT. The Access Review Roster will include individuals who are responsible for scientific review of requests for data held within SAGE. Members are selected from the research community based on knowledge and expertise in both content and methodology. Process: Applications for data will be evaluated by 3 reviewers, of which one may include the data depositors. Reviews may be provided by research scientists from the Child and Youth Data Lab (CYDL), PolicyWise staff members, or other research affiliates of PolicyWise. Reviews may also be provided by members of the Review Roster, particularly when the appropriate methodological and/or content expertise does not exist internally, or when the appropriate internal reviewers are in Conflict of Interest with the applicant or team members. External reviewers may be members of the national or international research community. Designated data relevance reviewers are assigned based on the deposit agreement. A PI depositing data may delegate the option to the data manager. Membership: Internal Reviewers (may include PolicyWise or CYDL staff) External Reviewers (identified and invited by the Grants Manager on behalf of the Scientific Director) Designated Data Depositors (primary custodians of the data, or their designate, and as outlined as per deposit agreement)
