AddressEmployment Type: Full Time, PermanentClassification: Allied Health Assistant 3 (PN 64968)Salary: $74,132 - $81,886 (Plus 11.5% Super) Location: Canberra Health servicesSection: Occupational Therapy DepartmentClosing Date: 18 April 2024
What can we offer you:
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City living without the traffic – click here to see why you should live in Canberra.
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Competitive pay rates and excellent working conditions within a tertiary hospital.
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Salary Packaging with many options that provide full fringe benefits tax concessions.
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Flexible working conditions.
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11.5% Superannuation.
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VISA/Sponsorship for eligible candidates
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Reimbursement of relocation expenses for interstate candidates (subject to review and approval).
About the Role:
A new exciting position has been created within the Acute Occupational Therapy team for an Allied Health Assistant level 3 (AHA3) to help build our team of Allied Health Assistants.
The successfully applicant will work alongside our Occupational Therapists and other Allied Health Assistants to provide exceptional care to our patients through screening, therapy and supporting OT role to facilitate discharge.
Please note: Applications must be submitted through the e-recruitment system. Applications must include a copy of a current resume, two written referee reports and a response to the selection criteria under 'what you require' in no more than two pages.
Where possible include specific examples of your work. Selection may be based on written application only. An order of merit may be established to fill future vacancies, permanent and temporary, at level over the next 12 months.
CHS contact: Acute Occupational Therapy Manager (Melinda Symon): 0401080***
Please note prior to commencement successful candidates will be required to:
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Undergo a pre-employment National Police Check.
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Comply with Canberra Health Services Occupational Assessment, Screening and Vaccination policy.
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Prior to commencing this role, a current registration issued under the Working with Vulnerable People (Background Checking) Act 2011 is required.
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Comply with CHS credentialing and scope of clinical practice requirements for Allied Health professionals.
To Apply:
Please submit a copy of your CV along with a 2-page response to the Selection Criteria listed in the position description.
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 communityOur 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.
If you would like further information regarding this opportunity, please contact at Melinda Symon 0401080*** or at *************@act.gov.au
