Central Waitlist Officer | Full-Time Temporary With A Possibility Of Permanency

Classification: Administrative Services Officer Class 3
Salary: $72,889 - $78,177 plus superannuation
Position No: 36786 - 02H9L
Directorate: Canberra Health Services
Advertised (Gazettal date): 15 May 2024
Contact Officer: Deborah Hammett on ***************@act.gov.au or (02) 5124 9***

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

About the Role:

Territory Wide Surgical Services forms part of the Division of the Chief Operating Officer within Canberra Health Services and Health Services of ACT Health and supports the provision of effective public surgical services in ACT public hospitals.

The role of the Territory Wide Surgical Services Team is to establish, review and update policy that governs the management of elective surgery for ACT public hospitals. The service also provides support for initiatives to improve the efficiency and effectiveness for elective surgery including managing access to surgery through the Central Waitlist Service and the Telephone information Service.

A key strategic priority for this service is to deliver timely access to effective and safe hospital care. Therefore, another key role of this service is to work collaboratively with all hospitals to develop and implement Territory Wide initiatives that are aimed at improving access to elective surgery and services.

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.

Notes: This is a temporary position available for five months with Possibility of extension and/or permanency.

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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This is a temporary position available for five months with Possibility of extension and/or permanency.

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