Job Description - Assistant Safety Advisor - Work Health & Safety (02HIG)

Job Description

Assistant Safety Advisor - Work Health & Safety (

Description

Employment Type: Full Time, Temporary 3-6 Months with possibility of extension
Classification: Administrative Service Officer 5 (PN 38191)
Salary: $ 89,114 - $ 94,120 (Plus 11.5% Super) 
Location: Canberra Hospital, Garran
Section: Work Health & Safety
Closing Date: 6 May 2024

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.

Reimbursement of relocation expenses for interstate candidates (subject to review and approval).

About the Role:

The Work Health Safety Unit provides strategic leadership, advice and effective coordination and implementation of work health safety (WHS) management strategies, frameworks, and activities. The unit provides WHS advisory and support services and oversees the implementation of systems and processes that assist Canberra Health Services to become a safe and accountable healthcare environment.

Canberra Health Services staff, people who use our services and visitors have the right to feel safe and be safe in Canberra Health Services workplaces.

Please note prior to commencement successful candidates will be required to:

To Apply: 

Please submit a copy of your CV along with a 2x page response to the Selection Criteria listed in the position description. Only applications submitted online will be accepted.

Please Note: Selection may be based on written application and referee reports only.

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. 

If you would like further information regarding this opportunity, please contact Annaliesha Flynn at (02) 5124 9410 or at .