600656 - 02OSO

Closes: 28 November 2025

Classification: Health Professional Level 1
Salary: $79,070 - $93,473 plus superannuation
Position No: 600656 - 02OSO
Directorate: Canberra Health Services
Advertised (Gazettal date): 17 November 2025
Contact Officer: Lucy Coventry on lucy.coventry@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:

To work as a member of the Occupational Therapy Department at North Canberra Hospital (NCH) within a broader multi-disciplinary team to provide patient care and implement continuous quality improvement initiatives based on evidence-based practice.

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 is a temporary position available for a period of 11.5 months with the possibility of extension up to less than 12 months and/or permanency. 

A merit pool may be established from this recruitment process and will be used for the next 12 months to fill various positions both on a temporary and permanent basis with full-time and part-time opportunities available.  

Applications submitted via an agency will not be accepted for this position.

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 is a temporary position available for a period of 11.5 months with the possibility of extension up to less than 12 months and/or permanency.

Career interest categories:

Healthcare, Medical and Allied Services