Job Description - Cardiac Sonographer - Medical Imaging Level 4 (02HAJ)
Job Description
Cardiac Sonographer - Medical Imaging Level 4 ( Job Number: 02HAJ )
Description
Employment Type: Full Time and Part Time, Permanent
Classification: Medical Imaging Level 4 (32443, Several)
Salary: $126,418 - $136,080(Plus 11.5% Super)
Location: Canberra Health Services
Section: Cardiology
Closing Date: 7 May 2024
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.
11.5% Superannuation.
Scholarships for education support
Reimbursement of relocation expenses for interstate candidates
Professional Development funding and leave after 12 months of service
Free parking!
About the Role:
Canberra Hospital is the largest tertiary teaching hospital in the region providing trauma, medical and surgical services. You will work in a growing health care service that includes a new Critical Services Building providing state of the art technology and facilities. Want to be apart of this exciting initiative? Apply now!
The Department of Cardiology is a well-established service with 14 consultant medical staff positions, four Accredited Cardiology Advanced Trainees, and two Unaccredited Cardiology Advanced Trainees, in addition to Basic Physician Trainees and other Junior Medial Officers. They work as part of a large multidisciplinary team including specialist nursing staff, cardiac physiologists, cardiac sonographers, administrative staff and the cardiac rehabilitation team. Patients accessing the services include adults of all ages, acuity, frailty and disability, who present for diagnosis and treatment of a range of acute and chronic cardiac conditions.
We have a strong education program, including weekly on-site echo education and regular multi-disciplinary education meetings.
Our Sonographers undertake and support advanced imaging including;
Periodic adult congenital heart disease clinics
Supporting Cardiologists with transoesophageal echocardiograms
Sonographer led transthoracic imaging in the cardiac catheter laboratories, in support of a structural heart program
Recent graduates with ASAR 1A or 1B accreditation are encouraged to apply. Please note prior to commencement successful candidates will be required to: Comply with Canberra Health Services Occupational Assessment, Screening and Vaccination policy.
To Apply: To apply for this position please submit a CV, and a maximum 2-page cover letter or pitch, responding to the Selection Criteria listed in the position description. Note: Selection may be based on written application and referee report only.
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.
Canberra Hospital Expansion Project – CHS is constructing a new critical services building called 'Building 5' which is a 44,000sqm nine storey building specifically designed to deliver state-of-the-art acute clinical services at the Canberra Hospital. Building 5 is the largest healthcare infrastructure project undertaken in the Territory's history and it represents the largest clinical and operational change program to ever be implemented by Canberra Health Services. Building 5 integrates with a number of existing buildings at the Campus including Building 1 and Building 2, to facilitate a seamless public thoroughfare, patient transportation and back-of-house logistics distribution. North Canberra Hospital - As of 3 July 2023 Calvary Public Hospital Bruce transitioned to CHS and became North Canberra Hospital. The transition will deliver a health system networked under one provider and will provide increased workforce opportunities for staff at both CHS sites. The ACT Government will be building a new northside hospital on the existing hospital campus in Bruce to meet the growing health care needs of our community, with construction to commence mid-decade providing more beds, increased services, and increased career opportunities. If you would like further information regarding this opportunity, please contact Luke Krause at 5124 3731 or at ******.
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