Technical Officer

**SA Health**
**Job reference**: 867013

**Location**: 5006 - NORTH ADELAIDE

**Job status**: Ongoing

**Eligibility**: Open to Everyone
- **Women's and Children's Health Network, Paediatric Medicine,** **Children’s Sleep Disorders Unit, Respiratory and Sleep Medicine, North Adelaide (5006)**:

- **Salary**
- **Classification - TGO2 - Technical Officer L2 - $**74,128 to $**78,700**:

- **Second Classification - TGO1 - Technical Officer L1 - $48,067 to $68,997**
- **Full time OR Part Time - Temporary and Ongoing opportunities available**

**About the Opportunity**

We currently have exciting opportunities to join the **Children’s Sleep Disorders **team as a** Sleep technician (TGO1)/Senior Sleep Technician (TGO2), **where you will be responsible for:

- Provide technical and organizational support to maintain high clinical service levels in the Sleep Disorders Unit.
- Prepare patients for sleep studies and perform overnight sleep studies using computerized physiological data acquisition equipment.
- Conduct diagnostic and therapeutic sleep studies, including the analysis, scoring, and basic interpretation of sleep studies.
- Ensure accurate and detailed record keeping, including electronic archiving of clinical records.
- Book patients for sleep studies and related procedures.
- Calibrate and perform routine maintenance on equipment, and manage the ordering and maintenance of consumables.
- Participate in accreditation and quality control activities.
- Operate as part of a multidisciplinary team, including medical, nursing, technical, research, and administrative staff.
- Assist in the training of junior or new staff and students under supervision.

**About You**

To be successful in this role, you will have:

- Ability to work under pressure with limited supervision, set priorities, and adapt to unexpected changes.
- Follow written or verbal instructions precisely and promptly communicate problems to senior staff.
- Demonstrated initiative, good organizational skills, attention to detail, and commitment to accuracy and quality.
- Effective verbal communication with the public, co-workers, and medical staff; able to establish rapport with children and parents.
- Maturity and empathy in dealing with situations, staff, and patients.
- Ability to take direction and act on feedback positively.

To find out the specifics regarding how each position differs, including the **key selection criteria** and **special conditions**, please see the attached role descriptions.

**What WCHN Can Offer You**
- Salary package a range of benefits (including living expenses such as mortgage, rent, utility bills and groceries) up to $9,010 each FBT year + $2,650 for Meal Entertainment expenses each FBT year.
- Access to Fitness Passport (workplace health and fitness program that gives you and your family access to a wide choice of gyms and pools across South Australia.)
- Free Public Transport for SA Health Metropolitan Hospital Workers.
- Access to generous leave provisions and professional development opportunities
- Support for you and your family via our Employee Assistance Program

You may be eligible for financial support if you are considering relocating from interstate or overseas. Please speak to the enquiries person of the role on offer to find out more.

**About Us**

The **Women’s & Children’s Health Network** is the state’s leading provider of best practice health care for women, babies, children and young people across South Australia. We offer:

- specialist care for children with acute and chronic conditions
- state of the art maternity and obstetric care services
- community based services reaching hundreds of thousands of babies, children and young people, their families and communities across SA
- specialist programs including Mental Health, Child & Family Health services, Youth and Aboriginal Health services.

Join our patient centred team and contribute to providing South Australia’s women, babies, children and young people with the best health care through both within our hospital or via our many and varied community services and programs.

Our values of Compassion, Respect, Equity, Accountability and working Together for Excellence or CREATE Together represent who we are as a Network.

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**Special Conditions**

To find out more about this role, including key selection criteria, all special conditions and minimum requirements, please click on the attached role description and also review our document checklists below.

Immunisation Requirements Checklist

Applicant Documents Checklist

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