BPF Resources. (a) Each Hospital and Health Service will continue to have a minimum of one full time permanent BPF coordinator position, who is a nurse or midwife, classified at no less than Nurse Grade 7. This position is a dedicated BPF role which will provide expertise in the BPF, support the BPF Steering Committee and participate in the state-wide BPF co-ordinators network co-ordinated by OCNMO. The parties will develop a statement of core duties of the BPF coordinator role. These will include ongoing training and development of NUMs and MUMs in the development of service profiles and the application and implementation of the BPF. This work will be completed within six months of certification of the Agreement, unless parties agree otherwise.
(b) OCNMO will have a permanent dedicated BPF position to provide BPF expertise and co-ordinate state- wide BPF activities including BPF education and training. The state-wide BPF co-ordinators network will report through OCNMO to NaMIG quarterly on matters to be agreed.
(c) A dedicated project resource will undertake a body of work on patient acuity, complexity and activity. This will include a review of the current BPF ‘Managing emergent imbalance in supply and demand’ flow diagram (page 57, BPF 5th Edition), and creation, within 18 months of certification, of a simple risk assessment tool, utilising criteria for assessing risks arising from changes to patient acuity, complexity and activity as well as responsive rostering.
(d) The parties will develop an interim addendum for offender health within twelve months of the certification of this Agreement, as the final addendum to the BPF. When the Queensland Health Offender Health Services review is completed the interim addendum will be revised by the parties, taking account of the outcome of the review.
(e) The BPF resource co-ordinators will be responsible for reviewing the ongoing utility of the BPF addenda through the BPF Resource Network coordinated through NaMIG.
BPF Resources. (a) Each Hospital and Health Service will continue to have a minimum of one full time permanent BPF coordinator position, who is a nurse or midwife, classified at no less than Nurse Grade 7. This position is a dedicated BPF role which will provide expertise in the BPF, support the BPF Steering Committee and participate in the state-wide BPF co-ordinators network co-ordinated by OCNMO.
(b) OCNMO will have a permanent dedicated BPF position to provide BPF expertise and co-ordinate state- wide BPF activities including BPF education and training. The state-wide BPF co-ordinators network will report through OCNMO to NaMIG quarterly on matters to be agreed.
(c) The BPF resource co-ordinators will be responsible for reviewing the ongoing utility of the BPF addenda through the BPF Resource Network coordinated through NaMIG.
