26552 - 02L1R

Closes: 08 January 2025

Classification: Registered Nurse Level 2
Salary: $109,637 - $115,894 plus superannuation
Position No: 26552 - 02L1R
Directorate: Canberra Health Services
Advertised (Gazettal date): 20 December 2024
Contact Officer: Nikki Goddard or Andreea Ardeleanu on womenshealthmanager@act.gov.au or (02) 5124 1787

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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).

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 an experienced Registered Nurse with a passion for Women’s Health? This just might be the right job for you!

The Women’s Health Service provides nursing, medical, counselling, and nutrition services for women who have significant difficulty accessing mainstream health services. The Registered Nurse will see women in the reproductive years and beyond for short term care for sexual and reproductive health and assists the Staff Specialist with clinical procedures. The Registered Nurse is responsible for undertaking well women assessments including cervical screening, following up clients’ results, clinical supply ordering, health literacy activities and health promotion activities. Nursing outreach is provided at Community Health Centres and may involve outreach at Child and Family Centres and various women’s refuges to support access to health care for vulnerable women escaping family violence.

This is a part-time position with working days Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday.

This position is a protected position and is open to women only as Canberra Health Service, consistent with section 33B 1(a) of the Discrimination Act 1991, considers that it is a genuine occupational qualification for a woman to be employed in this position to most effectively provide the nursing service.

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.

Note: This position is permanent part-time at (24:00) hours per week and the full-time salary noted above will be pro-rata.

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.

The new state-of-the-art Building 5 is now officially open at Canberra Hospital. This 44,000sqm, nine-storey facility, the largest healthcare infrastructure project in the Territory’s history, delivers cutting-edge acute clinical services. Building 5 seamlessly integrates with existing campus buildings, ensuring smooth public access, patient transportation, and efficient logistics.

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Note

This position is permanent part-time at (24:00) hours per week and the full-time salary noted above will be pro-rata.

Career interest categories:

Nursing