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Company Description
Company Description
Epworth HealthCare is Victoria's largest not-for-profit private health care group, renowned for excellence in diagnosis, treatment, care and rehabilitation. Epworth is an innovator in Australia's health system, embracing the latest in evidence-based medicine to pioneer treatments and services for our patients.
Our values and purpose define Epworth's approach and delivery. We pride ourselves on communicating and delivering them in a real and meaningful way. Every Patient Matters.
Job Description
In this full-time role, based in Richmond, you will be responsible for providing specialist expertise and knowledge in relation to risk, compliance and internal audit at Epworth. You will be part of the Legal and Governance team and report to Chief Legal officer.
This is an opportunity to drive meaningful change, embed best practice, and have real influence across a diverse and growing organisation
You will make an impact by-
* Leading corporate risk, compliance and internal audit management across the group, partnering with senior leaders and frontline staff to identify and manage risks in a highly regulated environment.
* Monitoring compliance across Epworth's business, reviewing obligation alerts, and supporting reporting to ensure adherence to evolving regulatory requirements.
* Facilitating risk workshops, supporting control uplift initiatives, and embedding a proactive risk culture at all levels of the business.
* Providing actionable insights through clear, business-friendly reporting for executive and board stakeholders.
* Supporting the ongoing development of enterprise risk, compliance, and assurance frameworks and managing the company-wide risk and compliance registers in CAMMS and supporting quality assurance systems
* Maintaining and updating Risk Appetite Statements and supporting measures, while monitoring Key Risk Indicators to identify potential exposures or control weaknesses
* Supporting the ongoing development of mitigation strategies for critical risks and assist in remediating ineffective key controls to strengthen the overall risk framework.
* Supporting updates to Risk and Compliance frameworks, policies, and procedures, and provide governance input on remediation.
* Acting as a coach and enabler, helping employees in operational roles apply risk and compliance practices in ways that are relevant and easy to understand.
* Educating and advising teams on compliance and risk responsibilities and embedding best practice across operations
* Coordinating internal audits and continuous improvement initiatives
* Leading and building on a culture of continuous performance improvement, supporting quality activities, ensuring they are consistent with group activities
* Actively engaging with all sites and balance group strategy with local site needs and goals in the interests of providing best practice across all risk and compliance
To be successful in this role…
You are a driven, seasoned risk and compliance professional with solid understanding and knowledge of legislation, guidelines, frameworks and standards for which healthcare facilities are to be maintained and operated within. You model and create a culture of risk awareness, accountability and action, and challenge current practices by developing and promoting new innovative systems. You facilitate change and manage stakeholder expectations and business requirements by interacting, liaising and engaging with senior executives. An ability to think laterally and strategically, allows you to provide consistent strategic advice about key enterprise-wide risks, project and program risks.
Qualifications
Position Description Inherent Requirements
You will have-
* Tertiary qualification in business, health administration or a related discipline or demonstrated competency in Risk and Compliance (Senior level), minimum 10 years
* Deep expertise in compliance, audit, or risk management role in a highly regulated environment
* Proven delivery of business management strategies to drive organisation-wide initiatives and strong organisational, planning and prioritising ability
* Robust leadership capability with high-level communication skills including effective presentation and public speaking skills
* Exposure to a range of regulatory frameworks and requirements.
* Advanced skills in prioritising, problem solving, systems and process management
* Demonstrated experience reporting regularly to boards and executive teams on identification and mitigation of key enterprise-wide risk and compliance matters
Highly desired-
* Completion of an MBA
* Post-secondary qualifications in business, finance, insurance, law, governance, audit
* Previous risk and compliance experience in healthcare
Qualifications
Tertiary qualification in business, health administration, CPA, CA, CIA, law or a related discipline
Additional Information
At Epworth, it's a community. It's the sense of belonging and being part of an organisation that puts the patient in the centre of all that is done. In addition to this, you will have access to:
* Epworth's enhanced Not for Profit status (and not available in the public sector) provides the opportunity for employees to salary package up to $15,900 pre-tax annually, leading to greater take home pay
* The largest educational scholarship program of its kind in Australia
* Ability to purchase up to four additional weeks of leave
* Reduced cost of health services for you and your family at Epworth
* Relocation assistance is available for approved candidates
At Epworth, we care.
We care about our patients and we care about our people. We care about keeping everyone safe. We care about valuing and empowering our people, and growing careers. And we care about giving our people support and flexibility to thrive, and contribute to our communities.
Enquire / Apply
Sound interesting? To apply, click the I'm Interested button and attach your CV and cover letter.
For more information, refer to the attached position description or contact Epworth Talent on (03) 9426 0606.
As a child safe organisation, all successful applicants are required to satisfactorily clear a National Police Check (conducted by Epworth) and hold a valid employee Working with Children Check (provided by you).
At Epworth, we believe inclusion and diversity are essential to our culture and values. We focus on fairness and opportunity for all – across race, ability, ethnicity, gender, age, sexuality, cultures and beliefs – that reflect the communities we work in. At Epworth, we care.
It is a condition of employment with Epworth HealthCare, subject to reasonable exemptions, that you have had an annual Influenza vaccination, where this is required under Epworth policy.
As a child safe organisation, all successful applicants are required to satisfactorily clear a National Police Check (conducted by Epworth) and may be required to hold a valid employee Working with Children Check (provided by you).
At Epworth, we believe inclusion and diversity are essential to our culture and values. We focus on fairness and opportunity for all – across race, ability, ethnicity, gender, age, sexuality, cultures and beliefs – that reflect the communities we work in. At Epworth, we care.
Seniority level
* Seniority level
Associate
Employment type
* Employment type
Full-time
Job function
* Job function
Administrative
* Industries
Hospitals and Health Care
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