Classification: Senior Officer Grade C
Salary: $127,597 - $136,873 plus superannuation
Position No: LP7010-02QJR
Directorate: Canberra Health Services
Advertised (Gazettal date): 03 July 2026
Contact Officer: Amanda Keogh on [email protected]
What can we offer you:
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City living without the traffic – click here to see why you should live in Canberra.
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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.
To find out more on what a career at CHS can give you, the benefits of working with us and why Canberra is Australia's happiest city click here: Benefits of working with us - Canberra Health Services (act.gov.au)
About the Role:
At Canberra Health Services, high-quality clinical care and decision-making rely on accurate and meaningful data. The Decision Support Unit (DSU) plays a critical role in supporting clinicians, managers and executives across the organisation with the information needed to deliver safe, effective and patient-centred care.
Led by an Executive Group Manager reporting to the Chief Operating Officer, the DSU works collaboratively across CHS to ensure information is reliable, accessible and clinically relevant. This supports effective planning, informed decision-making and improved patient outcomes.
The DSU promotes accountability in achieving strategic and clinical priorities and strengthens organisational capability to align Activity Based Funding with service delivery and operational planning. It is also responsible for delivering ICT services, maintaining data integrity, providing Health Information Services, and supporting both clinical and non-clinical planning through high-quality reporting and decision support.
Reporting to the Director, Data Quality, the Assistant Director, Data Quality is a key leadership position within the DSU.
This role is responsible for analysing, interpreting and enhancing clinical data to support strategic and operational decision-making across CHS, while ensuring compliance with all relevant regulatory and reporting requirements. The position works closely with clinical and non-clinical stakeholders to ensure timely access to accurate and reliable data.
In this role, you will help translate clinical data into actionable insights, supporting high-quality patient care and enabling effective and efficient health service delivery across CHS.
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.
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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