Assistant Director, Privacy & Information Compliance

Employment Type: Full Time, Temporary 6 Month Contract with possibility of extension and/or permanency
Classification: Senior Officer Grade C (PN 61191)
Salary: $119,595 - $128,465 (Plus 11.5% Super)
Location: Canberra Hospital, Garran
Section: Health Information Services
Closing Date: 22 April 2024

• 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.
• Reimbursement of relocation expenses for interstate candidates (subject to review and approval).

About the Role:

The CFO Division is responsible for developing and maintaining budgets, providing strategic financial advice, procurement and supply, and operational reporting across the health service. Additionally, the CFO Division includes the Health Information Services (HIS) team, which provides a range of services including:

• Provision of health records and personal health information for patient care, research, quality improvement, education, and medicolegal purposes.
• Clinical record scanning and management of paper and electronic health records.
• Clinical coding and casemix data generation.
• Patient identifier management.

The Privacy and Information Compliance Manager is responsible for overseeing the release of personal health information across CHS, for monitoring compliance with privacy legislation, and for investigating alleged breaches of privacy. This will include managing the HIS Release of Information (ROI) teams and liaising with internal and external stakeholders in relation to ROI as necessary; conducting record access and privacy audits; liaising and corresponding with complainants and other stakeholders around allegations of privacy breaches; and providing education and training around confidentiality and privacy.

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

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

• Undergo a pre-employment National Police Check.

To Apply:

Please submit a copy of your CV along with a 2x page response to the Selection Criteria listed in the position description. Only applications submitted online via the E-Recruitment system will be accepted.

Please note appointment may be based on written application and referee reports only.

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
OurRole: 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.

If you would like further information regarding this opportunity, please contact Kerri McGufficke at (02) 5124 3***.