Workforce Educator-Health Professional Level 4 | Full-time Permanent

Classification: Health Professional Level 4
Salary: $114,928 - $123,710 plus superannuation
Position No: 63701 - 02FSR
Directorate: Canberra Health Services
Advertised (Gazettal date): 19 January 2024
Contact Officer: Melinda Symon on *************@act.gov.au or (02) 51243***

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.
• VISA/Sponsorship for eligible candidates
• Reimbursement of relocation expenses for interstate candidates (subject to review and approval).

About the Role:

The Division of Allied Health, is a contemporary evidence-based service, providing high quality inpatient and outpatient care at the Canberra Hospital. Acute Allied Health services comprises of distinct allied health teams including nutrition, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, speech pathology and audiology, exercise physiology and social work and aims to provide collaborative care working across other clinical divisions that make up Canberra Health Services, as required.

The Occupational Therapy Department, provides care and support to a range of patients and clients across critical and acute inpatient areas and specialised outpatient settings, including Medical and Surgical wards, Intensive Care Unit, the Emergency Department, Maternity and Paediatric wards and outpatient areas such as paediatrics, hand therapy and burns.

The Occupational Therapy Department has four business hours teams, Medical, Surgical, Maternity and Paediatrics and Outpatients. Each team is led by the Occupational Therapy Manager.

The successful applicant will have a high level and diverse range of clinical Occupational Therapy skills to provide education leadership and strategic development to foster and develop clinical skills to junior Occupational Therapists, clinicians new to hospital Occupational Therapy and/or those wanting to develop new skills in a healthcare environment. The successful applicant will focus on developing and building skilled practitioners to assist with recruitment, retention, quality service provision and providing a supportive clinical environment in which to learn. The successful application will hold a patient case load while providing direct support to clinicians.

In this position you will provide regular input into, and form, an integral part of the Occupational Therapy Department leadership team. You will be required to oversee professional development and supervision, promote, and participate in quality improvement and research initiatives and contribute to team processes.

Note:  This position(s) is required to participate in an on-call roster and including weekends and overtime.

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.
• Comply with CHS credentialing and scope of clinical practice requirements for allied health professionals.

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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