Allied Health Assistant | Casual Casual

Classification:Allied Health Assistant Level 2
Salary: $61,335 - $67,889 (up to $69,805 depending on qualification level) plus superannuation
Position No: C08672 - 02H1K
Directorate: Canberra Health Services
Advertised (Gazettal date): 08 April 2024
Contact Officer: Sam Thompson on *************@act.gov.au or (02) 5124 2***

What can we offer you:

• City living without the traffic – click here to see why you should live in Canberra.
• Competitive pay rates and excellent working conditions within a tertiary hospital.
• Salary Packaging with many options that provide full fringe benefits tax concessions.
• Flexible working conditions.
• 11.5% Superannuation.
• VISA/Sponsorship for eligible candidates.
• Reimbursement of relocation expenses for interstate candidates (subject to review and approval).

About the Role:

The Canberra Hospital Nutrition Department is looking for casual Allied Health Assistants to support the dietitians in the provision of Nutrition Support to patients within the hospital. Duties include supporting the operation of the special diet service and infant feeding service, preparation and distribution of adult and infant formulas, computer data entry, patient visits, including documentation, reception and other administrative duties. This role requires availability to work after-hour shifts, including weekend and public holiday work.

The Nutrition Department is primarily responsible for the management of core functions and provision of Nutrition based Allied Health services within Canberra Health Services.

Services include:

• Clinical Dietetic Services to:
  • Inpatients on the University of Canberra Hospital and Canberra Hospital Campuses including the Centenary Hospital for Women and Children and the Adult Mental Health Unit
  • Outpatients requiring specialist care from the ACT and regional NSW.
• Operation of centralised Special Diet Service
• Operation of Infant Feeding Service
• Coordination of Canberra Health Services Clinical Education Program for Nutrition and Dietetic students from various local universities
• Food Service governance activities in partnership with the Canberra Hospital Food Service Department

For more information regarding the position duties click here for the Position Description.

Please note prior to commencement successful candidates will be required to:

• Undergo a pre-employment National Police Check.
• Prior to commencing this role, a current registration issued under the Working with Vulnerable People (Background Checking) Act 2011 is required.
• Comply with Canberra Health Services Occupational Assessment, Screening and Vaccination policy.
• Comply with CHS credentialing and scope of clinical practice requirements for Allied Health professionals.

For more information on this position and how to apply “click here”

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.

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

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 LGBTQIA+ are particularly encouraged to apply.

Canberra Hospital Expansion Project – CHS is constructing a new critical services building called ‘Building 5’ which is a 44,000sqm nine storey building specifically designed to deliver state-of-the-art acute clinical services at the Canberra Hospital. Building 5 is the largest healthcare infrastructure project undertaken in the Territory’s history and it represents the largest clinical and operational change program to ever be implemented by Canberra Health Services. Building 5 integrates with a number of existing buildings at the Campus including Building 1 and Building 2, to facilitate a seamless public thoroughfare, patient transportation and back-of-house logistics distribution.

North Canberra Hospital - As of 3 July 2023 Calvary Public Hospital Bruce transitioned to CHS and became North Canberra Hospital. The transition will deliver a health system networked under one provider and will provide increased workforce opportunities for staff at both CHS sites. The ACT Government will be building a new northside hospital on the existing hospital campus in Bruce to meet the growing health care needs of our community, with construction to commence mid-decade providing more beds, increased services, and increased career opportunities.

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