AddressEmployment Type: Full Time; Permanent and TemporaryClassification: Registered Nurse Level 1 (Several)Salary: $72,698 - $97,112 (Plus 11.5% Super) Location: Canberra Health ServicesSection: Mental Health ServicesClosing Date: 25 April 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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Scholarships for education support
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Reimbursement of relocation expenses for interstate candidates subject to the hiring managers approval
About the Role:
The Mental Health, Justice Health and Alcohol and Drug Services (MHJHADS) is a vibrant and diverse division within ACT Health providing support to children, youth and adults through inpatient and outpatient settings, community health centres, justice health facilities and other community settings including people’s homes. We partner with our health care consumers, their family, carers, government and community organisations to ensure that they receive the best possible care during their treatment and recovery.
All care that we provide is driven by our values of being kind, reliable, respectful and progressive. We are also guided by contemporary Mental Health and human rights legislation which means we operate within a framework that ensures the rights and dignity of people are promoted and protected.
MHJHADS services include:
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Adult Community & Older Persons Mental Health Services
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Adult Inpatient Mental Health Services
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Alcohol & Drug Services (ADS)
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Child & Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAHMS)
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Justice Health Services (JHS).
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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:
To apply for this position please submit a CV, and a maximum 2-page application addressing Selection Criteria, listed in the position description.
Note: A merit pool may be created from this recruitment and utilised for future positions within 12 months. Candidates may be found successful from written application only.
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.
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