Communication Manager
Full-time Temporary City living without the traffic – click her to see why you should live in Canberra. Competitive pay rates and excellent working conditions. Salary Packaging with many options that provide full fringe benefits tax concessions. Flexible working conditions. 11.5% Superannuation. About the Hospital: North Canberra Hospital (formerly Calvary Public Hospital Bruce) and Clare Holland House are now run and operated by Canberra Health Services (CHS)
This is a significant milestone as the ACT Government moves towards delivering a new billion-dollar hospital on Canberra's Northside.
The current North Canberra Hospital is a level 4 hospital that provides a range of acute and sub-acute services including community based care to the residents of the northside of Canberra and Southern NSW. North Canberra Hospital (NCH) is a 270 public hospital located in Canberra's expanding northside. North Canberra Hospital operates a 24 hour Emergency Department. Inpatient services include general medicine, surgery, maternity, mental health and critical care.
Other service modalities include day surgery, specialist outpatient clinics, Hospital in the Home and the Geriatric Rapid Acute Care Evaluation service that reaches into aged care facilities across the ACT.
The new Northside Hospital will be built on the existing Calvary Hospital campus in Bruce. It will be a modern, state-of-the-art hospital for patients, visitors and its workforce and will provide more beds and increased services. Until then, it's business as usual at the NCH, and we'll keep providing high-quality care to our patients and community.
About the role: North Canberra Hospital is committed to ongoing improvement and innovation in healthcare. The Communication Manager will report to the General Manager North Canberra Hospital and will play a key role in fostering effective communication, building relationships, managing reputation and ensuring information is conveyed accurately and appropriately across various channels.
Guided by the Whole of Government Communications and Engagement Plan, CHS strategic priorities and North Canberra Hospital operational initiatives, the Communication Manager will facilitate communication across the diverse workforce of clinical, non-clinical, technical and contractors across the North Canberra Hospital, Bruce and Barton campuses.
Under limited direction of the General Manager you will develop, deliver, and evaluate best practice communications projects in line with CHS strategic priorities and North Canberra Hospital operational initiatives. You will: Manage the development and implementation of communications and engagement strategies for North Canberra Hospital projects, services and initiatives informed by research, audience insights and evaluation. Design and deliver engaging written and digital content for North Canberra Hospital projects, services and initiatives in line with CHS Communications Strategy, including generating targeted content for North Canberra Hospital intranet and e-newsletter. Work closely with CHS Communications team to localise wider CHS communication initiatives and strategies. Prepare and provide content for CHS social media campaigns. Collaborate with stakeholders, subject matter experts and multidisciplinary teams within North Canberra Hospital to proactively drive opportunities to source, design, edit and approve content. Monitor, track and prioritise work to effectively and efficiently complete multiple tasks with potentially competing timeframes. Provide a local contact point for central CHS team to coordinate media enquiries, including talking points, training, and briefings and events. When required, develop and/or manage tools and templates to support the development and implementation of communication strategies. Undertake other duties appropriate to this level of classification which contribute to the operation of the organisation. About you: 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.
Behavioural Capabilities Sound organisational skills, including the ability to effectively manage multiple tasks, and determine priorities Demonstrated resilience, adaptability and integrity in response to changing circumstances and successfully managing multiple priorities and demand, in an often sensitive, dynamic, complex and diverse environment. Requirements/Qualifications: Mandatory Relevant tertiary qualifications and a minimum of 4 years' experience working professionally in Communications, Journalism, Media Studies and/or Public Relations is required. Comprehensive knowledge and skills in contemporary communications and engagement practices including techniques for creating audience-centric content for different channels. The successful applicant will need to work flexibly with some after-hours work hours required, with access to flex time if not applicable. CHS is leading the drive to digitally transform health service delivery in Australia through the implementation of a territory wide Digital Health Record . Computer literacy skills are required which are relevant to this role as you will be responsible for completing required documentation and becoming a proficient user of the Digital Health Record and/or other Information Technology systems; once proficient, you will need to remain current with changes, updates and contingencies. Please note prior to commencement successful candidates will be required to: Comply with Canberra Health Services Occupational Assessment, Screening and Vaccination policy. Note: This is a temporary position available for 11 months with the possibility of extension and or permanency.
For more information on this position and how to apply "click here " 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.
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Note Note: This is a temporary position available for 11 months with the possibility of extension and or permanency.
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