Exercise Physiologist - Allied Health Full-time Temporary …, Canberra

**Closes: 11 May 2026**: **Classification**: Health Professional Level 2 **Salary**: $91,026
- $108,691 plus superannuation **Position No**: 03689
- 02Q97 **Directorate**: Canberra Health Services **Advertised (Gazettal date)**: 30 April 2026

**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.
- 12.5% Superannuation.
- Access to Employee Assistance Program.
- Access to onsite Physiotherapists.
- Access to onsite cafes, staff cafeteria, pharmacy and gift shop.

**About the Role**: **Can you picture yourself joining a positive and progressive team of Exercise Physiologists, striving to deliver best outcomes within a public health setting to those who need it most? If so, read on.

You’ll be working at The Canberra Hospital, which is a modern 600-bed tertiary hospital, with teaching and research as a focus. This is one of the sole hospitals within Australia that has a dedicated Exercise Physiology Department, and we have fantastic opportunities to provide value as a workforce.

Your immediate clinical colleagues include a team of 7 Exercise Physiologists and an Allied Health Assistant. Our team provide care for inpatients admitted to acute and sub-acute wards, in additional to several outpatient programs. You would oversee a varied caseload with rewarding outcomes, whilst receiving support to grow and develop.

Within our department, and our multi-disciplinary teams, we provide Exercise Physiology assessment and intervention for:

- Admitted hospital patients to improve function and discharge opportunities, reduce impacts of hospital acquired deconditioning and embed behaviours for future health outcomes
- Outpatients that require support to continue accessing their acute treatments such as ‘Prehabilitation’ to optimise surgical outcomes and recovery for frail individuals in selected major surgery pathways, patients on active chemotherapy and radiation therapy, selected transplant lists such as kidneys or stem cell transplants, and more
- Multidisciplinary outpatient Cardiac Rehabilitation and Heart Failure Rehabilitation programs

We highly encourage interested applicants to reach out to our contact officer for more information.

Fun fact: Canberra has been named the #1 best city in the world for quality of life by Oxford Economics in 2025.

**For more information regarding the position duties click here for the**_Position Description_**_._**

**- Undergo a pre-employment National Police Check.
- Comply with Canberra Health Services Occupational Assessment, Screening and Vaccination policy.
- Comply with CHS credentialing and scope of clinical practice requirements for allied health professionals.

**Note**:This is atemporary position available for 12 Months, with the possibility of extension and/or permanency.

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- Note: Under the ACTPS employment framework you may be placed in another role where required for the productive administration of the service._
- Where an offer of employment is for a fixed-term period, any related temporary contracts within the Territory will be issued in compliance with the requirements and applicable _exceptions_ outlined in the Fair Work Act._

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
- 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._

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