Expression Of Interest - Technical Officer Level 1

Employment Type: Expression of Interest - For future vacancies: Full Time, Part Time, Casual, Temporary and Permanent
Classification:Technical Officer Level 1 (PN 64638)
Salary: $68,811 - $69,805 (Plus 11.5% Super)
Location: Canberra Hospital, Garran
Section: ACT Pathology
Closing Date: 13 March 2024

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:

Please note this is for an Expression of Interest to build a Merit List. There is no position available at this current time.

ACT Pathology is a division of the Canberra Health Services with laboratories located at both the Canberra Hospital and North Canberra Hospital operating 24 hours, 7 days a week all year round and Collection Centres located at seven other sites. Pathology provides diagnostic and consultative services to medical specialists and general practitioners and their patients in hospital and in the community.

ACT Pathology is a division of CHS with laboratories located at both the Canberra Hospital and North Canberra Hospital operating 24 hours, seven days a week all year round. Pathology provides diagnostic and consultative services to medical specialists and general practitioners and their patients in hospital and in the community.

As a Technical Officer at ACT Pathology, you may be appointed to a position or rostered for duties in the following departments:

• Specimen Reception
• Customer Services
• Haematology
• Chemical Pathology and/or POCT
• Anatomical Pathology (Includes Histology, Cytology and Mortuary Services)
• Quality
• Diagnostic Genomics
• Molecular Pathology
• Microbiology
• Immunopathology and Infectious Immunoassay
• North Canberra Hospital Laboratory

The successful applicant may be required under supervision to run and maintain laboratory instrumentation, run quality control materials, temperature monitoring, stock control, process patient samples, receive customers, undertake specimen collection procedures, and use the laboratory information systems to complete associated tasks.

There may be a requirement to work out of routine hours, including nights, weekends, public holidays, and/or an on-call component. If required, participation in 24/7 roster is mandatory.

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.
• Comply with Canberra Health Services Occupational Assessment, Screening and Vaccination policy.

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.

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 Erika Kuehl-Roberts at (02) 5124 2***.