Exercise Physiologist - Health Professional Level 3 | Full-Time Permanent

Classification:Health Professional Level 3
Salary: $99,819 - $105,180 up to $110,398 on achieving a personal upgrade plus superannuation
Position No: 50825 - 02FR6
Directorate: Canberra Health Services
Advertised (Gazettal date): 19 January 2024
Contact Officer: Dave Turner on ***********@act.gov.au or (02) 5124 3***

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.

About the Role:

The Canberra Hospital is one of the only hospitals within Australia with a dedicated Exercise Physiology Department. We have fantastic opportunities to provide value to our patients across the wards and acute outpatients. Clinicians oversee a varied caseload with rewarding outcomes. All staff receive support to grow and develop their skills and knowledge.

Within our department, and our multi-disciplinary teams, we provide Exercise Physiology assessment and intervention for:

• Admitted hospital patients to reduce hospital acquired deconditioning, improve function and discharge opportunities, and embed healthy behaviours for future health outcomes
• Multidisciplinary outpatient Cardiac Rehabilitation and Heart Failure Rehabilitation programs
• Outpatients that require support to continue accessing their acute treatments such as ‘Prehabilitation’ to optimise surgical outcomes and recovery for frail individuals in selected major surgery pathways, patients on active chemotherapy and radiation therapy, patients on selected transplant lists such as kidneys or stem cell transplants, and more

We are looking for a senior Exercise Physiologist with a commitment to public health and teamwork.

We ask you to consider… what could you achieve within a supportive team working in public health to achieve best patient outcomes?

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.
• 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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