Wardspersons Coordinator | Full-time Permanent

Classification: Health Service Officer Level 5
Salary: $64,301 - $67,318 plus superannuation
Position No: 64609-02GZ8
Directorate: Canberra Health Services
Advertised (Gazettal date): 03 April 2024
Contact Officer: Dragana Petreski on ***************@act.gov.au or (02) 51242***

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:

Do you have great people skills? Do you want to support and lead a team to be the best they can be?

Then we want you to be a part of our team as a Wardspersons Supervisor. Work in the latest facilities, with the new Critical Services Building due for completion in 2024.

The Wardspersons Supervisors, Co-ordinators and Wardspersons are a team within Patient Support Services. The coordinator works closely with the shift supervisor. The Co-ordinators are responsible for the direction and services delivery of a team of Wardspersons working within the transport that operates daily including weekends and Public Holidays. These positions have the highly respected responsibility for ensuring patients are transported throughout the hospital campus to and from their procedures in a safe and timely manner.

This exciting role is responsible for task management using equipment systems such as EPIC, radio, telephone, and pagers.

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.

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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