ACT Government Hiring for ACT Perinatal Loss Education Coordinator Job at Canberra Full Time

Closes: 16 September 2021

Classification: Registered Midwife Level 2
Salary: $94,409 – $100,061 plus superannuation

Position No: 42228 – 01XPK
Directorate: Canberra Health Services
Advertised (Gazettal date): 30 August 2021
Contact Officer: Sheree Barr on [email protected] or (02) 5124 7368

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
Canberra Health Services (CHS) is focussed on the delivery of high quality, effective, person centred care. It provides acute, sub-acute, primary and community‐based health services, to the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) and surrounding region. More information can be found on the CHS website: https://www.health.act.gov.au/

The CHS division of Women, Youth and Children, provides a broad range of primary, secondary, and tertiary health services. The division has a strong focus on clinical governance to ensure quality of services this is underpinned by our partnerships with our consumers and other service providers. We are a family centred, multidisciplinary team that delivers care in Canberra Hospital, Centenary Hospital for Women and Children and Health Services, Community Health Centres, client’s homes, schools and Child and Family centres.

In the ACT, approximately 1.8% of women experience a stillbirth per year. The Centenary Hospital for Women and Children (CHWC) provide maternity services for women in the ACT and southern New South Wales who have pregnancy complications that require medical termination and for women who have experienced perinatal loss. The CHWC is the main referral centre for women with high-risk pregnancies/ pregnancy anomalies within the ACT and surrounding South East Region of NSW.

Perinatal autopsy and investigations inform individual pregnancy care for women in their subsequent pregnancies, and on a population-level identifies causes and factors that can be incorporated in stillbirth prevention strategies. Currently in the ACT there is a 55% autopsy rate for stillbirths/ neonatal deaths. To increase the uptake of autopsy and investigations for stillbirth/ neonatal deaths, the ACT Perinatal Loss Educator role will support education for health professionals, information sharing with consumers, streamlining processes of autopsy/ investigation and undertake ongoing data collection in this space.

ABOUT YOU
CHS is committed to workforce diversity and to creating an inclusive workplace. As part of this commitment, we welcome applications from all diversity groups. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people with disability and people who identify as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex, or Questioning (LGBTIQ) are encouraged to apply.

Behavioural Capabilities

• Strong organisational skills (including simultaneously managing and prioritising multiple issues) with a high degree of drive
• An ability to work respectfully in partnership (with a range of stakeholders) while simultaneously demonstrating leadership
• Strong ability, skills and enthusiasm for adult education for health professionals and parents experiencing perinatal loss.

Position Requirements/Qualifications:
Relevant tertiary qualifications and a minimum of five years’ experience working professionally in Midwifery is preferred.

• Fulfil the responsibilities of this role as detailed with the following policy alignment:
  • National Stillbirth Action and Implementation Plan 2020
  • Woman-centred care: Strategic directions for Australian maternity services August 2019
  • National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Plan 2013-2023
  • Report on Inquiry into maternity services in the ACT June 2020
  • Accessible, Accountable, Sustainable: A Framework for the ACT Public Health System 2020-2030
  • Territory Wide Health Services Plan
  • Maternity Access Strategy
  • ACT Wellbeing Framework
  • Have an understanding of how the National Safety and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) indicators align with this role.
  • Fulfil the responsibilities of this role in alignment to the CHS Exceptional Care Framework, Clinical Governance Framework, Partnering With Consumers Framework and all other related frameworks.

Prior to commencement successful candidates will be required to:

• Obtain a Compliance Certificate from OMU (Occupational Medicine Unit) relating to assessment, screening and vaccination processes against specified infectious diseases.
• Undergo a pre-employment National Police check.

Note: This is a temporary part-time position at (16:00) hours per week available for a period of 11.5 months. The full-time salary noted above will be pro-rata.

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Note

This is a temporary part-time position at (16:00) hours per week available for a period of 11.5 months. The full-time salary noted above will be pro-rata.

Career interest categories:

Healthcare, Medical and Allied Services