Address Employment Type: Permanent & Temporary - Full Time & Part Time.
Classification: Registered Nurse Level 1 (P54609, Several)
Salary: $72,698 - $97,112 (Plus 11.5% Super)
Location: Canberra Health Services
Section: Women, Youth and Childrens Health
Closing Date: 30 May 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.
• Scholarships for education support
•Reimbursement of relocation expenses for interstate candidates subject to the hiring managers approval
About the Role:
Canberra is one of Australia’s best kept secrets. Imagine yourself in a capital city where things are just easier without the hustle and bustle. Where there’s always plenty to do for those that are looking for excitement or those that just want to enjoy the view. Click here Lifestyle | Canberra to find out more about why you should live and work in Canberra.
The Paediatric Units in the Centenary Hospital for Women, Youth and Children is under Canberra Health Services. It provides family centred, holistic care and advocacy for children and adolescents in the ACT and surrounding regions. You will work in a growing tertiary hospital that cares for children with acute and chronic health needs. Our newly refurbished wards incorporate state of the art clinical features with improved indoor and outdoor facilities for patients and their families to enjoy.
The Paediatric unit includes:
• High Care Ward
• Medical and Surgical Wards
• Adolescent Ward
• Day Surgery and Outpatient clinics
Successful candidates are provided ongoing education and training opportunities. You will be part of a supportive multi-disciplinary team that will work with you to expand and develop your clinical skills to care for the community within Canberra and surrounding regions.
For more information regarding the position duties click here for the Position Description.
Please note prior to commencement successful candidates will be required to:
• Undergo a pre-employment National Police Check.
• Prior to commencing this role, a current registration issued under the Working with Vulnerable People (Background Checking) Act 2011 is required.
• 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.
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.
If you would like further information regarding this opportunity, please contact Ruth Muoki at **********@act.gov.au or (02) 5124 7***.
