CHS NDIS Support Unit Lead

1 week ago


Canberra, ACT, Australia Australian Capital Territory Full time
CHS NDIS Support Unit Lead - Rehabilitation Aged Care and Community Services
Full-time Temporary with a Possibility of Permanency
  • 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.
  • 11.5% Superannuation.
  • Reimbursement of relocation expenses for interstate candidates (subject to review and approval).

About the Role:

Opportunity exists for an experienced Allied Health professional with extensive knowledge and experience of health service provision and strategically addressing service provision consideration for clients with disabilities, specifically in relation to National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) funding. The CHS NDIS Support Unit Lead position is available from May 2024 for a period of 6 months with the possibility of extension or permanency.

The CHS National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) Support Unit Lead is based predominantly at Village Creek Centre Kambah with requirement to coordinate with services teams across CHS community and inpatient sites. The position provides strategic advice and coordination for Canberra Health Services in relation to NDIS / health interface issues across divisions. The successful applicant will provide advice to the RACS Executive Director and be required to represent CHS in a range of forums including to other ACT and Federal Government departments, the National Disability, and Insurance Agency (NDIA), Non-Government Organisations, and Ministers as required. The position is responsible for the direction and management of the CHS NDIS Support Unit which incorporates NDIS / health interface project officers and the administrative support for RACS NDIS Fee for Service areas.

Under limited direction of the Executive Director of RACS and Director of Client Support Services you will lead the NDIS Support Unit with a focus of improved coordination of care for clients who are NDIS participants, or potentially eligible for NDIS funding.

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

  • 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 six months with possibility of extension up to 12 months and/or permanency.

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.

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.

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