Permanent Full time | 80 Hours per fortnight with a monthly ADO
$75.52-$78.67 per hour
About The Role
Are you a strategic thinker with a passion for improving clinical care? Do you thrive on leading change, empowering teams, and driving innovative solutions? If so, we invite you to apply to become the Manager of Clinical Innovation at Grampians Health. This position plays a pivotal role in shaping the future of our services by leading the design, delivery, and evaluation of innovative clinical models, to support safe, effective, person‑centred care. Working within a dynamic Service Improvement Team, you'll collaborate with clinical leaders, frontline staff, consumers, and stakeholders to turn ideas into measurable improvements that make a genuine impact across our health service.
Key Responsibilities
Oversee the design and develop innovative models of care that improve patient outcomes and enhance service delivery.
Work collaboratively with the clinical operations teams, oversee the implementation of new care models, ensuring they are integrated smoothly into existing systems and practices.
Act as one of the Department of Health and Safe Care Victoria's delegated leads for GH, operating under the oversight of senior management.
Value the voice of the consumer to inform service planning, change and improvement
Develop workforce capacity and capability through coaching, teaching and establishing systems to support sustainable service improvement
Skills & Experience
Appropriate tertiary qualification and /or experience in a health-related discipline
Qualifications in project management, business analysis, service planning, improvement science and/ or research is essential
Demonstrated experience working as part of a Senior Leadership Team
Experience in developing, leading and managing strategic and change projects to a successful outcome
Holds current driver's license
Culture & Benefits
At Grampians Health, we recognise our staff are our greatest asset. We are committed to providing a safe and healthy environment for our staff, patients, residents, visitors, volunteers and contractors at all sites.
Flexible work arrangements and purchase leave opportunities
Salary packaging for living expenses such as rent/mortgage plus meals, entertainment & holidays
Access to Fitness Passport membership
Staff rewards and recognition programs
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Interested?
Click APPLY or if you wish to discuss the role prior to applying, contact Jade Odgers, Director - Service Improvement, on for a confidential discussion.
Job applications close: 17 March 2026.
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About Grampians Health
Grampians Health provides healthcare to a large region at our campuses based in Ballarat, Dimboola, Edenhope, Horsham and Stawell.
Our mission is to deliver sustainable healthcare tailored to evolving community and workforce needs. We strive to enhance services and careers, providing quality healthcare to rural and regional communities. Joining Grampians Health means being part of a diverse team, with a variety of career opportunities in acute, maternity, mental health, allied health, aged care and support services.
Ballarat Region
Ballarat is the largest centre in Western Victoria and the state's fastest growing inland city. Uniquely located within easy access to Melbourne, Ballarat has some of Australia's most significant heritage buildings and natural landscapes. To learn more about Ballarat click here - Visit Ballarat
Diversity and Inclusion
All appointments are subject to a satisfactory police records check, immunisation clearance and Working with Children check and/or NDIS Worker Screening Check.
All employees must be willing and able to wear Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) when required, which at a minimum is a surgical mask. Additional PPE requirements are role dependent.
Grampians Health is a child safe organisation, committed to the safety and wellbeing of all children and young people. Grampians Health is committed to providing a diverse and inclusive workforce.
We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disability, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, mature age workers and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (or questioning), intersex and asexual LGBTQIA+.