Spiritual Care Practitioner | Full-Time Temporary

Classification: Administrative Services Officer Class 4
Salary: $80,535 - $86,909 plus superannuation
Position No: 64651 - 02HAY
Directorate: Canberra Health Services
Advertised (Gazettal date): 16 April 2024
Contact Officer: Chris Dudfield on **************@act.gov.au or (02) 5124 3***

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:

As a Spiritual Care Practitioner (Palliative and Paediatrics), you will work as part of the multi-disciplinary care team to address the spiritual and emotional wellbeing of patients, their families or carers and staff in Palliative Care or Paediatric Units at Canberra Hospital (TCH).

Canberra Health Services understands healthcare works best when we create a person-centred partnership that delivers holistic care for the body, mind, and spirit. Spiritual Care seeks to address the spiritual domain of health, with particular response to the unique human vulnerabilities associated with healthcare including fear, loneliness, pain, grief, and joy.

Standard hours of work are Monday to Friday 8:00am-4:00pm and this role may include an overnight on-call service, weekend, and public holiday work.

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.
• 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.

Notes: This is a temporary position available for 12 months with possibility of extension and/or permanency.

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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This is a temporary position available for 12 months with possibility of extension and/or permanency.

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