Liaison Officer

**Description**

**Employment Type**:Full Time, Temporary 12 Month Contract with the possibility of extension and/or permanency
**Classification**: Health Professional Officer Level 3 (PN 58184)
**Salary**:$108,459 - $116,711 (Plus 11.5% Super)
**Location**:Canberra Health Services
**Section**:Transitional Therapy and Care Program
**Closing Date**:23rd March 2025

**What can we offer you**:

- 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.
- Access to Employee Assistance Program.
- Access to discounted gym membership.
- Access to onsite Physiotherapists.
- Onsite cafes, staff cafeteria, pharmacy and gift shop.

**About the Role**:
The Transitional Therapy and Care Program (TTCP) provides up to 12 weeks of goal focused therapy and care services for older persons within their home or at the TTCP residential unit. The TTCP aims to maximise a person’s recovery and functional independence following a hospitalisation and prevent premature admission to an aged care facility. The TTCP operates from the University of Canberra Hospital, Bruce. The TTCP Allied Health team is Multidisciplinary and consists of Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Allied Health Assistants, Dietitians, a Social Worker, and a Speech Pathologist.

The TTCP Liaison Officer is responsible for coordinating a patient’s transition from hospital onto the TTCP. This is achieved through assessing clients for suitability, liaising with the patient, families and/or carers and ward staff to coordinate appropriate referrals, discussing the program with all key stakeholders, referring to the Aged Care Assessment Team (ACAT) for assessment and approval for TTCP, and facilitating discharge from hospital onto the program. The TTCP Liaison Officer is required to work at multiple sites including public and private hospitals within the ACT.

This position will also include a clinical role at a HP3 level within the position holder’s profession. The TTCP Liaison Officer will manage their clinical case load in conjunction with the requirements of the Liaison Officer position.

This position is a temporary full-time position. A merit list may be established from this recruitment to fill future temporary and permanent positions in a full-time or part-time capacity.

**For more information regarding the position duties click here for the**_Position Description._**
- Undergo a pre-employment National Police Check.
- Current registration issued under the Working with Vulnerable People (Background Checking) Act 2011 is required for professions not registered with AHPRA.
- 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.

**To Apply**:
**Please submit online, a copy of your CV along with a 3x page response to the Selection Criteria listed in the position description.**

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
- 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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**Job**: Allied Health

**Salary Range**: 108,459.00 - 116,711.00

**Closing Date**: 23/Mar/2025, 7:59:00 AM