* Make an impact providing expert leadership of key strategic change and improvement initiatives across Austin Health
* Ongoing, full time opportunity
* Heidelberg location, with multiple public transport options
Austin Health is the major provider of tertiary health services, health professional education and research across three campuses in the north-east of Melbourne and statewide. We have a highly engaged, diverse and collaborative workforce that is unified by our goal to help people live healthy and fulfilled lives.
About the Service Improvement and Innovation department
The Service Improvement and Innovation Team reports through to the Strategy and Sustainability Directorate, and enables an enterprise approach to strategy, improvement and innovation, and project management. The focus of the Service Improvement and Innovation function is on leading design and implementation of strategies and improvement projects with an organisation wide impact. It also leads service improvement and innovation support, and coaching and capability building in improvement and project methodologies.
About the role
The Program Manager reports to the Service Improvement Director and is responsible for providing expert leadership of key strategic change and improvement initiatives across Austin Health.
This is an ongoing role accountable for working with senior clinical, operational, and executive leaders to lead the design and implementation of strategies to enhance organisational performance.
A regular day will see you:
* Lead the development and delivery of organisational strategies and implementation plans designed to address complex organisational challenges, which deliver measurable improvements in performance outcomes.
* Build strong coalitions for change, working to engage stakeholders, build buy-in, and sustain cross-organisational collaboration.
* Establish and maintain robust project frameworks, governance and delivery documentation for effective planning, change management and accountability.
* Present complex data and stakeholder analysis, project reports, and initiative outcomes to stakeholders and committees in engaging and influential ways.
* Prepare reports, briefing papers, business cases, and other documentation, including for Austin Health board, executive and clinical and operational leadership audiences, and the Department of Health.
About you
To be successful in this role you'll bring with you:
* Strong knowledge of contemporary health services, operations, and strategic and service delivery objectives.
* Proven ability to lead and deliver large-scale strategy, implementation, and change projects in complex healthcare settings.
* Demonstrated leadership in complex stakeholder engagement, with the ability to build trust and credibility, influence, and maintain effective relationships at all levels, and in the face of ambiguity and competing priorities.
Working at Austin Health means enjoying a strong sense of purpose, engaging in meaningful work every day. Our people also receive a variety of rewarding benefits, including:
* Greater take-home pay through generous salary packaging, for living expenses, meals, and holiday accommodation.
* A suite of wellness initiatives designed to support you, including discounted fitness memberships and special offers on health insurance, and a comprehensive wellbeing programme.
* Onsite childcare at Austin Hospital, easy access via public transport and car parking options.
* Mentoring and career development opportunities.
Work with us!
We are committed to cultural safety and health equity for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander People. We celebrate, value, and include people of all backgrounds, genders, identities, cultures, bodies, and abilities. We welcome and support applications from talented people identifying as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander, people with disability, neurodiverse people, LGBTQIA+ and people of all ages and cultures.
All appointments are made subject to a satisfactory National Police Check and if required, a Working with Children Check. If you require any reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process, you are welcome to reach out to the hiring manager: Danielle Romanes, Director, Organisational and Service Sustainability at Danielle.Romanes@austin.org.au
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