AddressEmployment Type – Temporary, Full Time Position (11 months)
Classification – Senior Officer Grade A
Title- Director, Operations, Division of Surgery
Position Number:603091
Salary – $162,291 - $162,291 (Plus Super) pro rata
Location – North Canberra Hospital Bruce, ACT
Section – Pre-Admission Clinic
Closing Date – 16th July 2024
What can we offer you: ● City living without the traffic – click her to see why you should live in Canberra.
● Competitive pay rates and excellent working conditions.
● Salary Packaging with many options that provide full fringe benefits tax concessions.
● Flexible working conditions.
● 11.5% Superannuation.
About the Hospital:
North Canberra Hospital (formerly Calvary Public Hospital Bruce) and Clare Holland House are now run and operated by Canberra Health Services (CHS)
This is a significant milestone as the ACT Government moves towards delivering a new billion-dollar hospital on Canberra’s Northside.
The current North Canberra Hospital is a level 4 hospital that provides a range of acute and sub-acute services including community based care to the residents of the northside of Canberra and Southern NSW. North Canberra Hospital (NCH) is a 270 public hospital located in Canberra’s expanding northside. North Canberra Hospital operates a 24 hour Emergency Department. Inpatient services include general medicine, surgery, maternity, mental health and critical care.
Other service modalities include day surgery, specialist outpatient clinics, Hospital in the Home and the Geriatric Rapid Acute Care Evaluation service that reaches into aged care facilities across the ACT.
The new Northside Hospital will be built on the existing Calvary Hospital campus in Bruce. It will be a modern, state-of-the-art hospital for patients, visitors and its workforce and will provide more beds and increased services. Until then, it's business as usual at the NCH, and we'll keep providing high-quality care to our patients and community.
About the role:
NCH is a major general hospital with Level 4 Role Delineation. The hospital supports a broad range of acute and sub-acute services including community based services to the Northside of ACT and Southern NSW. The Division is responsible for providing surgical and pain management services for a number of specialist services including Dental Surgery, Endoscopy, General Surgery, Gynaecology (including Oncology) and Obstetrics, Ophthalmology, Oral Maxillofacial Surgery, Orthopaedic Surgery, Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery (ENT), Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Urology Surgery and Vascular Surgery. In addition, the Division encompasses Specialist Outpatients and Territory Wide Breast Care Service. NCH also works collaboratively with The Canberra Hospital which is the tertiary level surgical service in the ACT.
The Director, Operations is critical to enabling high quality, safe operational management within a structured governance and accountability framework to affect organisational change, improve and maintain Surgical Division efficiencies and promote innovation. This role will work with a multidisciplinary stakeholders across CHS to consider existing processes and issues and to affect organisation wide change.
The role requires an experienced operational manager with strategic leadership qualities, have sound management experience, relationship management, exceptional communication skills, change management and project management skills.
For more information regarding the position duties click here for the Position Description.
How to apply:
Applications must be submitted through the e-recruitment system;
• Applications must include a copy of a current CV and details for at least 2 professional referees
• A maximum two page pitch outlining your skills, knowledge, and experience and why you should be considered for this role. You should take into consideration the selection criteria (below) when drafting your response.
• Where possible include specific relevant examples of your work.
Applications from third parties or agencies will not be considered
To be eligible for permanent employment within the ACT Public Service you must be an Australian citizen or a permanent resident”
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.
Please note prior to commencement successful candidates will be required to:
• Undergo a pre-employment National Police Check.
• Comply with Canberra Health Services Occupational Assessment, Screening and Vaccination policy.
If you would like further information regarding this opportunity, please contact David Boothey,
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A merit pool may be established from this recruitment process and will be used for the next 12 months to fill various positions both on a temporary and permanent basis with full-time and part-time opportunities available.
This is a temporary position available for a period of 11 months with the possibility of extension and/or permanency.
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