AddressEmployment Type: Full Time, Temporary, 5.5 months with possibility of extension
Classification:Health Professional Officer Level 4 (PN 22008)
Salary: $114,928 - $123,710 (Plus 11.5% Super)
Location: Canberra Hospital, Garran
Section: Allied Health
Closing Date: 25 June 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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Reimbursement of relocation expenses for interstate candidates (subject to review and approval).
About the Role:
The Exercise Physiology Department is based within Acute Allied Health Services and provides support to a range of patients accessing the acute hospital environment. The team specialise in clinical assessment and intervention of evidence-based exercise and education.
The Department has direct referral streams for inpatient and outpatient settings, in addition to multi-disciplinary programs including Prehabilitation, Cardiac Rehabilitation, Heart Function Rehabilitation and others.
The Exercise Physiologists and Allied Health Assistants work closely with patients, carers, referrers, other health care professionals and multidisciplinary teams to achieve safe high-quality patient centred care.
The Manager of Exercise Physiology provides clinical leadership, operational management, and sets the direction of the Department aligned within the Acute Allied Health Services. This includes regular input to ensure high value, evidence-based service delivery.
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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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 Canberra Health Services Occupational Assessment, Screening and Vaccination policy.
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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 2x page response to the Selection Criteria listed in the position description. Only applications submitted online will be accepted.
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 Dave Turner at (02) 5124 3*** or at ***********@act.gov.au.
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