Description
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Employment Type: Various Positions
Classification: Registered Nurse Level ,
Salary: $110,733 – $117,053 (Plus 12% Super)
Location: North Canberra Hospital
Section: Perioperative Suite
Closing Date: 29th September 2025
What can we offer you:
City living without the traffic – click here to see why you should live in Canberra.
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.
Reimbursement of relocation expenses for interstate candidates (subject to review and approval).
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 )
About the Role:
The Division of Surgery is responsible for delivering inpatient and outpatients surgical services The Division includes Surgical Bookings and Pre-Admission Clinic, Anaesthesia, Pain Management Unit, Operating Theatres, Post-Anaesthetic Care Unit, Day Surgery Unit, Admissions, Day Procedure Unit, Endoscopy, and specialist surgical ward areas.
The Perioperative Suite at North Canberra Hospital consists of a Day Surgery Unit, Surgical Admission Lounge (SAL), 7 Operating Theatres, and a procedure room, covering a wide range of surgical specialities, and a Post Anaesthetic Care Unit (PACU).
Our Specialties include Orthopaedics, Obstetrics, Gynaecological, ENT, Head and Neck, Plastics, Minor Vascular, General Surgery, Urology, Ophthalmic and Maxillofacial Surgery. The North Canberra Hospital, Operating Suites service surgical procedures within the area, including referrals from surrounding regions. Our nurses are dynamic skilled professionals who are responsible for the provision of patient centred evidence-based nursing care for every patient. Our nursing teamwork within a multidisciplinary healthcare team supported by the Perioperative Education Team, Clinical Nurse Consultants and the ADON.
A Registered Nurse with advanced nursing practice skills is required to provide a high level of support consistently and competently to perioperative staff and patients within North Canberra Hospital and Canberra Health Services.
The Floor coordinator role reports directly to the Scrub/Scout Clinical Nurse Consultant and joins the nursing leadership team. This position is responsible for facilitating the day-to-day patient flow throughout the perioperative suite, in collaboration with the Perioperative suite management team, while supporting the wider multidisciplinary team to provide evidence-based nursing care to perioperative patients.
For more information regarding the position duties click here for the Position Description.
Please note prior to commencement successful candidates will be required to:
Undergo a pre-employment National Police Check.
Comply with Canberra Health Services Occupational Assessment, Screening and Vaccination policy.
To Apply:
Please apply online by submitting a copy of your CV along with a maximum 2-page cover letter or pitch, responding to the Selection Criteria, listed in the Position Description.
This document is required and must be submitted to be considered for the role.
***Please note applications submitted via an agency will not be accepted for this position***
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.
If you would like further information regarding this opportunity, please contact Julie Lee
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A merit pool may be established from this recruitment process and will be used for the next 12 months to fill various positions both on a temporary and permanent basis with full-time and part-time opportunities available.
Temporary Contracts with possibility of extension and/or permanency
Job: Registered Nurses & Midwives
Salary Range: 110, ,053.00
Contact Name: Julie Lee
Contact Email:
Closing Date: 29/Sep/2025, 8:59:00 AM