Closes: 17 November 2024
Classification: Administrative Service Officer Level 4
Salary: $81,743 - $88,213 plus superannuation
Position No: 37325 - 02KC2
Directorate: Canberra Health Services
Advertised (Gazettal date): 05 November 2024
Contact Officer: Penelope Ginich on
[email protected] or (02) 51241853
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.
- Reimbursement of relocation expenses for interstate candidates (subject to review and approval).
About The Role
Forensic Mental Health Inpatient Services provides high quality forensic mental health care to people in contact with the criminal justice system and located within the Dhulwa and Gawanggal inpatient units. The service aims to provide collaborative, equitable and comprehensive health care to consumers within the service. Dhulwa Mental Health Unit and the Gawanggal Mental Health Unit provides high quality inpatient mental health care to people from 18 to 65 years of age.
The Dhulwa Mental Health Unit (DMHU) provides 24-hour mental health care for people who require secure inpatient treatment. DMHU provides a therapeutic and recovery-based approach, focused on individually tailored treatment programs to maximize mental health care outcomes for patients. The service aims to provide collaborative care involving the person, their carers, and other key services.
Gawanggal Mental Health Unit (GMHU) is a specialist mental health facility adjacent to Calvary Hospital in Bruce. GMHU sits within the Stepped Care Model of mental health care, providing medium term residential care for people who require rehabilitation and support to transition from DMHU into the community setting. The GMHU provides a range of contemporary, community focused rehabilitation interventions, programs and services.
DMHU offers 10 acute care beds and 15 rehabilitation beds and the GMHU has 10 beds for community transition.
Reporting to the Administration Manager it is expected that in this position you will provide administrative support to the clinical teams with a focus on providing quality customer service. All staff are required to undertake professional development activities and participate in quality service initiatives and contribute to the multidisciplinary team processes.
The working hours for this position are 8.30am – 4.51pm Monday to Friday.
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.
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.
Career Interest Categories
Administration and Governance
Customer Services and Information
Healthcare, Medical and Allied Services
