42555-02KVK

Closes: 17 December 2025

Classification: Registered Nurse Level 3.1
Salary: $124,946 - $129,878 plus superannuation
Position No: 42555-02KVK
Directorate: Canberra Health Services
Advertised (Gazettal date): 11 December 2024
Contact Officer: Leigh Thompson on Leigh.R.Thompson@act.gov.au or 0478276 336

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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 a senior Registered Nurse, keen for a new challenge? This might just be the next role for you? If you have the required experience in Mental Health, Health Promotion, Sexual and/or Adolescent Health, we encourage you to apply.

JHS provides primary health services and specialist mental health services to people in the criminal justice system in a range of settings including the courts, custody, youth detention and community settings. Custodial Health – Primary Health provides primary, drug and alcohol, complex, and population healthcare services to people in custody and facilitates access to specialist and allied health services, while Custodial Mental Health provides mental health screening, psychiatry services, and crisis mental health services to people in custody.

The Registered Nurse role at this level is responsible for the provision of sound, clinical primary healthcare services and interventions to clients of Justice Health Services at the Bimberi Youth Justice Centre (BYJC). This includes supporting the delivery of healthcare services provided by the specialist teams for alcohol and other drugs, and complex care; as well as the provision of developmentally appropriate, evidence-based, trauma-informed, client-centred, confidential, holistic, inclusive, and trustworthy health care to adolescents and young people at BYJC.

This role also includes participation in quality management and improvement initiatives to promote optimal service delivery, and the maintenance of professional competencies. This Registered Nurse position is supported by a cohesive and multi-disciplinary team.

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.
• Undergo a Security Clearance check through ACT Corrective Services.

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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Career interest categories:

Healthcare, Medical and Allied Services
Nursing