Team Leader

**Description**

**Employment Type**:Full Time, Permanent
**Classification**: Health Professional Officer Level 4 (PN 65054)
**Salary**:$124,103 - $137,742 (Plus 11.5% Super)
**Location**:Canberra Hospital, Garran
**Section**:Acute Occupational Therapy
**Closing Date**:19th June 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**:
We have an exciting opportunity for a HP4 team leader to join our neurosciences/paeds team. Within this role the successful applicant will provide leadership, support and skill building within our team. We are inviting suitably qualified Occupational Therapists with more than five years of experience as an HP3 to apply. Suitable applicants will have experience working with a broad range of neurological, neurosurgical or paediatric conditions, and willingness to learn about areas that they may not be as experienced in to facilitate support and coverage to these areas. This staff member will work alongside our other HP4 who supports our medical/surgical team.

Our Occupational Therapy Department provides Occupational Therapy services across the Canberra Hospital, including critical care units, medical and surgical wards, cancers services, outpatients and maternity and paediatrics. Staff will have the opportunity to help the team across these areas on a need’s basis.

We support qualified Occupational Therapists of all levels embarking on a career move into hospital Occupational Therapy by providing skill development support from our clinical education office, supervision and access to funded professional development opportunities.

As the Canberra Hospital continues to expand, so does our Occupational Therapy Department. This growth has opened up leadership and higher duties opportunities with mentoring support.

We highly encourage interested applicants to reach out to our contact officer for more information. Your queries are important to us and we look forward to addressing them.

**For more information regarding the position duties click here for the**_Position Description._**
- 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.

**To Apply**:
**Please submit online, a copy of your CV along with a 2-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
- 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_.

**Job**: Allied Health

**Salary Range**: 124,103.00 - 137,742.00

**Contact Name**: Melinda Symon

**Closing Date**: 19/Jun/2025, 8:59:00 AM