LP6929 - 02M5W

Closes: 26 September 2025

Classification: Health Professional Level 3
Salary: $109,543 - $117,878 plus superannuation
Position No: LP6929 - 02M5W
Directorate: Canberra Health Services
Advertised (Gazettal date): 11 September 2025
Contact Officer: Karen Dell on Karen.dell@act.gov.au

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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:

Social Work within Allied Health, North Canberra Hospital, provides services to a range of clients in the Emergency Department, acute inpatient and specialised outpatient settings. Our social workers work closely with patients, carers, referrers, other health professionals and multidisciplinary teams to achieve safe, high quality patient care.

Social workers play a key role in the multidisciplinary management of patients across the care continuum. This position works in collaboration with the social work and multidisciplinary team to deliver services, supporting patient flow and maximising patient outcomes.

This role will support education /professional growth of junior social workers and students.

Professional supervision and professional development is provided through team structures, supervision support, competency based assessments and professional development opportunities.

You will be required to participate in restricted on-call rosters. A merit pool will be developed from this round and may be used to fill vacancies which occur over the next 12 months.

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.
• Comply with CHS credentialing and scope of clinical practice requirements for allied health professionals.

Note: This position is part-time at (29) 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 part-time at (29) hours per week and the full-time salary noted above will be pro-rata.

Career interest categories:

Healthcare, Medical and Allied Services