Employment Type: Full Time, Temporary 6 Month Contract with the possibility of extension and/or permanency
Classification: Health Service Officer Level 5 (PN 65541)
Salary: $67,418 - $70,511 (Plus 11.5% Super)
Location: The Canberra Hospital, Garran
Section: Patient Support Services
Closing Date: 29th April 2025

What can we offer you:

About the Role:

The Mental Health Wardsperson provides assistance in patient care. The Wardspersons assist with patient manual handling, transport patients throughout the hospital campus and assist in code responses.

This role is led by the clinical and nursing teams.

The Canberra Hospital is a 24-hour service that operates daily including weekends and Public Holidays. it is therefore possible that you may be required to work weekends or public holidays on rotating rosters.

This position rotates throughout the mental health spaces.

Please note appointment may be based on written application only.

For more information regarding the position duties click here for the Position Description.

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

To Apply:

Please apply online by submitting a copy of your CV along with a 2-page cover letter or pitch, responding to the Selection Criteria, listed in the Position Description.

***Please note applications submitted via an agency will not be accepted for this position***

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 Dragana Petreski at (02) 5124 2610 or at [email protected].

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