Facilities Management Liaison Officer | Full-time Permanent

Classification: Infrastructure Officer 2
Salary: $95,860 - $109,755 plus superannuation
Position No: 39640 - 02HBI
Directorate: Canberra Health Services
Advertised (Gazettal date): 17 April 2024
Contact Officer: Myles Trew on **********@act.gov.au or (02) 5124 4***

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:

Infrastructure and Health Support Services, a division of Canberra Health Services, are responsible for:

• Capital project delivery.
• Facilities Management.
• Minor Works Team and Off-Site Maintenance.
• Safety and Risk.
• Domestic and Environmental Services.
• Food Services.
• Sterilising Services.
• Security Services.
• Fleet Management.

The Infrastructure and Health Support Services, Facilities Management Division, is responsible for planned and reactive maintenance, asset management, utilities and contracts and leasing for the Canberra Health Services property portfolio across the ACT.

CHS has a continuous construction and refurbishment project program to meet growing community needs and expanding health services demand. FM are integral to the capital improvement programs and provide engineering advice, solutions, and support to an expansive project delivery team.

With support from the Director of Engineering Services, the FM engineering team is responsible for maintaining information flow across many project delivery programs. The FM Liaison role ensures projects are compliant with the FM standard inclusions and specifications and monitors FM project engagement processes while maintaining productive and positive relationships.

The FM Liaison Officer represents FM across vital maintenance, construction, and engineering activities and provides correspondence and communications across various stakeholders. The role escalates and manages issues raised by maintenance and project teams, providing visibility and response opportunities to senior Directors within FM.

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.

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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