AddressEmployment Type: Part Time, Permanent, 17.5 hours per weekClassification: Health Service Officer Level 3 (PN 35000)Salary: $55,350 - $57,149 (Plus 11.5% Super) Location: Canberra Hospital, GarranSection: Patient Support ServicesClosing Date: 14 February 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:
Hospital Assistants provide 24-hour flexible frontline support and play a vital role in patient flow and ensuring infection Prevention and control standards are met across the campus.
Requirement to work shift work within all hospital areas; including, evenings, mornings and nights on a shift roster that may include weekend work and Public Holidays.
The Patient Support Services Team Charter includes that every day we will:
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Communicate in a polite, clear, honest, and open way being respectful of our clients and one another.
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Use good body language and listen attentively to our clients and one another.
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Respect each other’s opinions and personal values.
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Seek to understand each other by being non-judgemental, compromising and asking questions considerately when seeking clarification.
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Cooperate to improve client outcomes by creating a caring environment for all treating others the way we wish to be treated and sharing our experiences and skills.
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Take responsibility for our actions, take pride in our work, and trust each other to do the same.
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Acknowledge our work colleagues and offer assistance while working toward a common goal.
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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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 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 Neil Howlett at (02) 5124 5*** or at ************@act.gov.au.
