AddressEmployment Type: Full Time, Permanent Classification: Health Professional Level 4 (PN 63840)Salary: $114,928.00 - $123,710.00 (Plus 11.5% Super) Location: The Canberra HospitalSection: Social Work DepartmentClosing Date: 17 May 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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VISA/Sponsorship for eligible candidates
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Reimbursement of relocation expenses for interstate candidates (subject to review and approval).
About the Role:
We are inviting suitably qualified Social Workers with more than 6 years' experience to apply for Medical Team Leader. As the Medical Team Leader, you will provide day to day management, clinical leadership and guidance to Social Workers in the Medical Team. This team provides social work services across inpatient medical wards/areas at the Canberra Hospital including general medicine, stroke unit, gastroenterology and renal as well as a small number of community and outpatient areas. Your role will include providing specialist clinical advice, problem solving, education, intervention and supervision to facilitate high quality social work services.
This position forms part of the social work leadership team, who work together, to provide direction to our Social Work Department.
We support qualified Social Workers embarking on a career move into hospital social work by providing development support from our Workforce Clinical Educator, supervision and access to funded professional development opportunities.
Financial relocation support (reimbursement) up to $12,000 is available for Interstate and International candidates (permanent positions only).
We highly encourage interested applicants to reach out to our contact officer for more information. Your queries are important to us, and we look forward to addressing them.
Please address the selection criteria in your submission; otherwise, your application cannot be accepted.
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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Prior to commencing this role, a current registration issued under the Working with Vulnerable People (Background Checking) Act 2011 is required.
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Comply with Canberra Health Services Occupational Assessment, Screening and Vaccination policy.
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Comply with CHS credentialing and scope of clinical practice requirements for allied health professionals.
To Apply:
Please submit a copy of your CV along with a cover letter or 2 x page pitch responding to the Selection Criteria listed in the position description.
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 Patrice Higgins at (02) 51242*** or at ***************@act.gov.au
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