Employment Type: Full Time, Permanent
Classification: Senior Officer Grade C (PN 10965)
Salary: $125,344 - $134,527 (Plus 12% Super)
Location: The Canberra Hospital, Garran
Section: Research Operations and Clinical Trials
Closing Date: 21st September 2025

What can we offer you:

• 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.
• Access to Employee Assistance Program.
• Access to discounted gym membership.
• Access to onsite Physiotherapists.
• Onsite cafes, staff cafeteria, pharmacy and gift shop.
• Up to $12K reimbursement of relocation expenses for interstate candidates (subject to review and approval).

About the Role:

The Rural, Regional and Remote Clinical Trials Enabling Program (R3-CTEP) is a decentralised clinical trial initiative enabling patients in rural, regional and remote areas of the ACT and NSW to participate in trials by reducing the need for travel to major centres. Distance is a significant healthcare barrier for 30% of Australians living in rural, regional and remote areas. R3-CTEP is an initiative supported by funding from the Australian Government under the Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) which aims to improve access to innovative healthcare. The Southern Cluster includes Canberra Health Services (CHS), Illawarra-Shoalhaven Local Health District (ISLHD), Murrumbidgee Local Health District (MLHD), and Southern NSW Local Health District (SNSWLHD).

The role of the Southern Cluster Manager is to provide strategic and operational leadership for the Southern Cluster in the R3-CTEP program, ensuring that the cluster achieves its goals of increasing the conduct of, and participation in, clinical trials in rural, regional, and remote areas in southern NSW and the ACT.

Please note selection may be based off written application and referee reports only.

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.

To Apply:

Please apply online by submitting a copy of your CV along with a 2-page Pitch, responding to the Selection Criteria, listed in the Position Description.

***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.

The new state-of-the-art Building 5 is now officially open at Canberra Hospital. This 44,000sqm, nine-storey facility, the largest healthcare infrastructure project in the Territory's history, delivers cutting-edge acute clinical services. Building 5 seamlessly integrates with existing campus buildings, ensuring smooth public access, patient transportation, and efficient logistics.

If you would like further information regarding this opportunity, please see the full contact details and how to apply on the CHS Careers Page.