• Employment Type: Full Time, Permanent
• Classification: Health Professional 3 (PN 60870, 24114)
• Salary: $99,819.00- $110,398.00 (Plus 11.5% Super)
• Location: The Canberra Hospital
• Section: Allied Health, Social Work
  

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, permanent positions only).

To find out more on what a career at CHS can give you, the benefits of working with us and why Canberra is Australia's happiest city click here: Benefits of working with us - Canberra Health Services (act.gov.au).

About the Role:

Are you ready to progress your career as a Social Worker? Come work in a new state of the art facility, challenge yourself with professional development and join a dynamic, supportive team!

Our Social Work Department provides Social Work services across the Canberra Hospital, including critical care units, medical and surgical wards, and maternity and paediatrics. Our team provide assessment, interventions, complex discharge planning, emotional support and counselling, crisis and brief intervention and advocacy.

We support qualified social workers embarking on a career move into hospital social work by providing skill development support from our Workforce Clinical Educator, supervision and access to funded professional development opportunities.

As the Canberra Hospital continues to expand, so does our Social Work Department. This growth has opened leadership and higher duties opportunities with mentoring support.We are inviting applications from suitably qualified Social Workers with more than three years of experience. While positions are full-time, reduced hours may be considered.

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.

To Apply:

Please apply online via the Apply Now link by submitting a copy of your CV along with a 2-page response to the Selection Criteria, listed in the Position Description.

Applicants are strongly encouraged to get in touch with the contact person who will be able to guide you on how to complete this response. Applications submitted without a response to Selection Criteria, will not be considered.

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 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 delivers a health system that provides increased workforce opportunities for staff at all 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 contact Patrice Higgins at 02 5124 2316 or at  [email protected] using the subject line: Social Worker enquiry via EthicalJobs.