Classification: Health Professional Level 3
Salary: $111,639 - $0 up to $126,060 on achieving a personal upgrade plus superannuation
Position No: 71050, Several-02QZJ
Directorate: Canberra Health Services
Advertised (Gazettal date): 30 June 2026
Contact Officer: Melinda Symon on [email protected] or 0401 080 052
What can we offer you:
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Competitive pay rates and excellent working conditions within a tertiary hospital.
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Salary Packaging with many options that provide full fringe benefits tax concessions.
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Flexible working conditions.
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12.5% Superannuation.
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Access to Employee Assistance Program.
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Access to onsite Physiotherapists.
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Access to onsite cafes, staff cafeteria, pharmacy and gift shop.
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Up to $12K reimbursement of relocation expenses for interstate candidates. (subject to review and approval)
About the Role:
The Acute Occupational Therapy Paediatrics team have multiple exciting opportunities for dynamic, flexible, and skilled Occupational Therapists to join our team.
Positions available are within the Acute Inpatient/outpatient paediatrics Occupational Therapy team based within the Centenary Hospital for Women and Children as well as the community based Enhanced Child Health Service (also on the Canberra Hospital campus).
You will work alongside various multidisciplinary teams to provide best practice care to our consumers. You are supported to further build on skills via, Professional Development opportunities, support from specialist trained staff (hand therapy and burns management) and external mentors.
We are inviting suitably qualified Occupational Therapists with more than three years of experience to apply. Those with prior experience in the delivery of acute and outpatients health services to adults and children, young people and families are highly recommended to apply.
We support qualified Occupational Therapists of all levels embarking on a career move into hospital Occupational Therapy by providing skill development support from our team leaders, Workforce Clinical Educator, 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.
A merit pool may be created from this recruitment process and remain valid for 12 months. This pool may be used to fill both permanent and temporary positions across CHS.
Financial relocation support (reimbursement) is available for Interstate and International candidates (permanent positions only).
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.
Please note prior to commencement successful candidates will be required to:
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Undergo a pre-employment National Police Check.
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Comply with Canberra Health Services Occupational Assessment, Screening and Vaccination policy.
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Comply with CHS credentialing and scope of clinical practice requirements for allied health professionals.
Please note applications submitted via an agency will not be accepted for this position
For more information on this position and how to apply “click here”
Note: Under the ACTPS employment framework you may be placed in another role where required for the efficient administration of the service.
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 ACT public service is committed to closing the gap, underpinned by the belief that when Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have a genuine say in the design and delivery of policies, programs and services that affect them, better life outcomes are achieved. More information can be found here ACT Closing the Gap Implementation Plan - ACT Government Transparency Portal.
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