Date published: Jul 24, 2025, 14:10 PM
Location
Health and Community Services, ACT
Description
The Health and Community Services Directorate is seeking an experienced staff specialist in the field of public health. The occupant will work collaboratively across a range of areas in ACT Government, to provide high-quality, strategic and technical public health input into a range of population health priority areas.
This role will support the Chief Health Officer (CHO) in fulfilling statutory responsibilities under relevant legislation and will support the health of the ACT population by:
- Maintaining public health systems and capacity to detect and/or respond to existing and emergent public health risks and disasters, including ensuring ACT Health's disaster readiness/response capacity and bio preparedness
- Increasing the evidence-base and translating this into population health policy and practice
- Providing training and support for public health professionals for future public health leadership in the ACT
We're committed to creating an inclusive environment where people with diverse thoughts, lived experience, and perspectives can thrive and contribute their unique talents to the ACTPS and ACT community.
We encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disability, people with culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, veterans, younger and older workers, and people with diverse genders, sexes and sexualities to apply.
Essential qualifications
- Registered or eligible for registration as a medical practitioner with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency
- Fellowship of the Australasian Faculty of Public Health Medicine, or imminent entry to Fellowship
Desirable
- Have met, or be able to meet, Faculty requirements to supervise registrars in relevant training programs
- Previous experience working in a Public Health Unit or in a population health organisation
Please note: Prior to commencement, successful candidates will be required to:
- Be granted their Scope of Clinical Practice through the Medical Dental Appointments Advisory Committee (MDAAC)
- Undergo a pre-employment National Police check
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This is a temporary position available from middle of August for 3 months. A merit pool will be established from this selection process and will be used to fill vacancies over the next 12 months.
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