AddressEmployment Type: Part Time, Permanent
Classification: Health Professional Officer 3 (PN 62482)
Salary: $99,819.00 - $110,398.00 (Plus 11.5% Super)
Location: The Canberra Hospital, Garran ACT
Section: VSC Psychosocial Support Unit
Closing Date: 2nd July, 2024
What can we offer you:
- City living without the traffic - click here to see why you should live in Canberra.
- 11.5% Superannuation.
- A supportive learning environment with fully funded board approved internal or external supervision provided for all team members.
- Salary Packaging with many options that provide full fringe benefits tax concessions.
- Flexible working conditions with negotiable working hours according to your availability, including support for you to work in private practice while working with us.
- Access to annual professional development funding of up to 2% of annual salary after 12 months of service.
- Relocation allowance of up to $12,000 for individuals with additional funding for dependents for interstate candidates (subject to review and approval).
About the Role:
Canberra Health Services (CHS) is offering an exciting job opportunity within a newly created service area: The Variation in Sex Characteristics (VSC) PsychoSocial Unit. The service will work with children and adolescents, as well as their families and a large scope of health professionals both internal and external to CHS.
CHS is looking to recruit the following clinician to the service: Social Worker.
VSC PsychoSocial Unit
In June last year the ACT Government passed the . This legislation recognises that people with variations in sex characteristics should not be subject to harm through inappropriate medical interventions. As well, this Act will aim to protect the human rights of intersex people in medical settings and for irreversible and non-urgent procedures, until the person is old enough to make decisions involving what is done to their bodies. The ACT is the first jurisdiction in Australia, and one of the first in the world, to enact this type of legislation. It is an exciting opportunity to be part of a significant improvement in the care of Intersex people.
The VSC PsychoSocial Unit has been created to:
- Improve support to intersex people and their families.
- Provide expert guidance for any decisions required in the context of medical treatment.
- Ensure a focus on the delivery of trauma-informed care to provide information, understand decisions made by the assessment board and assist with treatment decisions.
Come and Join our team
CHS are looking for highly trained health workers to deliver these services using a trauma-informed, strengths-based approach that recognises the importance of protective factors, such as family and peer support, to reduce stigma and discrimination and optimise mental health outcomes.
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 encouraged to apply. We encourage those clinicians with lived experience to apply.
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.
- Comply with Canberra Health Services Occupational Assessment, Screening and Vaccination policy.
- Prior to commencing this role, a current registration issued under the Working with Vulnerable People (Background Checking) Act 2011is required.
- Comply with Canberra Health Services credentialling for Allied Health Professionals
To Apply:
- Please apply online by submitting a copy of your CV along with a 2-page cover letter or pitch, responding to the below 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
OurRole: to be a health service that is trusted by our community
Our Values: Reliable, Progressive, Respectful and KindCHS 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 see the full contact details and how to apply on the CHS Careers Page.
