See our current vacancies for employment opportunities.
Visit the Enterprise Agreements page for more information on rates of pay, allowances and leave.
For more information on working at Canberra Health Services visit our Careers pages.
Careers and culture
Our team combine the professional development benefits of working at a nation leading ICU, with an unparalleled lifestyle in one of Australia’s most dynamically evolving cities.
We offer a family friendly and flexible working environment that embraces a multidisciplinary approach to health care – our nursing, medical, allied health and support staff work collegiately and respectfully to drive exceptional patient outcomes.
We are proud of our nurturing and supportive workplace. Canberra Hospital ensures we are family friendly by offering flexible working hours, paid parental leave entitlements and a clear breast-feeding policy.
We provide external mentoring and preceptorship programs, Critical Care Frontline Leadership support, bedside teaching opportunities and promote a humanistic approach to end of life care.
For more information, see our page on benefits of working with us.
Exceptional Career Development
We have career pathways that support clinicians at every stage of their career.
Our world-class training and development initiatives mean that we attract and develop some of the leading medical professionals in the country.
Nursing careers
We welcome new graduates, foundation and experienced nurses, and provide extensive expert training and learning opportunities at all stages of critical care nursing levels.
Our nurses provide patient centred care alongside medical, allied health and other support staff. We offer:
- a commitment to continued professional development
- one on one bedside teaching
- specialised study days
- self-directed learning packages
- competency-based assessments
- in-services.
Our ICU recognises prior learning with an established program of integration, and we employ a graded leadership model to allow development of leadership skills, as well as clinical skills.
Many of our nurses hold postgraduate qualifications in critical care nursing, including masters level degrees, whilst our affiliation with several nursing universities means our nursing students work closely alongside our experienced clinicians.
Medical careers
We welcome medical officers to the unit via our four-year Critical Care Training Program. During the program, junior medical officers are rotated through anaesthetics, Emergency Department and ICU, and receive daily teaching sessions with a multidisciplinary focus.
We also provide extensive preparation courses for the primary and secondary examinations which include simulated crisis team practice scenarios.
Our ICU is accredited with the College of Intensive Care Medicine of Australia and New Zealand to provide the maximum 24 months of general training, and meets College requirements for training in neurosurgery, cardiothoracic surgery and trauma. This means you can work with us at any stage of your journey to become an intensive care specialist. We are also affiliated with the Australian National University at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
Our team includes a group of highly invested Supervisors of Training and college examiners, and we actively facilitate rotations through anaesthetics, internal medicine and paediatrics. In addition, we have established links with the Capital Region Retrieval Service and rural placements in surrounding NSW communities to provide a 360-degree experience in all aspects of critical care.
Medical staff seeking senior positions are encouraged to contact the Clinical Director via email at ICU@act.gov.au
Physiotherapy careers
Our physiotherapy team provide services to the ICU 24/7 and is led by dedicated ICU physiotherapists.
We focus on early mobilisation, rehabilitation and recovery, even while high level organ system support is being provided.
Our work includes inspiratory muscle training, strategic weaning, extubation readiness assessment, ventilator hyperinflation, non-invasive ventilation in physiotherapy, multidisciplinary rehabilitation planning and competency with ICU-related outcome measures.
We are committed to research and teaching and offer an ICU observership program for physiotherapists interested in an ongoing career in ICU.
