Employment Type: Full Time Permanent
Position Classification: Health Manager Level 4
Remuneration: $147,653 - $175,917 per annum plus Superannuation
Location: 1 Reserve Road, St Leonards NSW
Hours Per Week: 38 hours
Requisition ID:REQ656682
Join our Business Analytics & Intelligence Team (BAIT) at Ministry of Health for an exciting Full Time Permanent opportunity and be part of the team enriching health in millions of ways every day.
About us
* We are committed to your growth and development, providing the resources and opportunities you need to excel in your career.
* Join a passionate team dedicated to innovation and creativity.
* While regular office presence is essential, we offer flexible work arrangements to support your needs.
To learn more about the Ministry and what benefits we offer, access our Employee Benefits Handbook.
About the role:
With your skills and experience, you can contribute to the millions of ways we're enhancing health and wellness while developing
your career as part of the largest health organisation in Australia.
Be part of a team that turns complex financial data into clear, trusted insights that support critical decision making across NSW Health. As a Senior Statistician in Financial Planning and Analytics, you will apply advanced statistical and analytical methods to inform patient costing, funding models and system performance. Your work will help decision makers understand trends, trade offs and impacts across the health system, supporting evidence based planning and resource allocation. You will collaborate with experienced analysts and stakeholders across districts, pillars and the Ministry to ensure insights are robust, transparent and fit for purpose. The role offers exposure to large scale, real world data challenges and the opportunity to deepen your expertise in health system analytics. If you are driven by analytical rigour, relevance and impact, this role provides a meaningful platform to shape better decisions through data.
Health Manager Level 4, starting salary from $147,653 - $175,917 per annum plus Superannuation, with a 38-hour work week.
What you'll be doing
* Extract, transform and statistically analyse large, complex health datasets to support patient costing, funding analysis and system level decision making.
* Work collaboratively with other BAIT team members to reconcile multi source data, resolve data quality issues and ensure analytical consistency.
* Apply advanced statistical techniques to identify trends, variances and cost drivers across activity based funding and patient care streams.
* Produce reproducible, well documented analytical outputs that support routine reporting, modelling and ad hoc analytical requests.
* Translate complex analytical findings into clear, decision ready insights for financial and funding stakeholders across NSW Health.
About you:
We are seeking motivated and committed individuals who can support the work of NSW Health with:
* Tertiary qualifications in statistics, health information management, data science or a related quantitative discipline, or equivalent demonstrated experience.
* Strong experience extracting, validating and analysing high volume health datasets using tools such as SAS, SQL, Python/R and Excel.
* Sound knowledge of patient costing, activity based funding and health system data, with an understanding of data governance and quality frameworks.
* Proven ability to work collaboratively with other team members to reconcile multi source data and produce robust, reproducible analysis.
* Demonstrated capability to translate complex statistical outputs into clear, decision ready insights for technical and non technical stakeholders.
How to apply
At The Ministry of Health, we want you to make the most of the opportunities you'll get to grow your skills and your career, surrounded by authentic, smart people and leaders.
Please review the role description and submit your up-to-date resume (up to 5 pages) and cover letter (1-2 pages) AND demonstrate your ability by attaching a response to the two target questions below.
Target Questions (1-2 pages)
* Describe your experience extracting, validating and analysing large, multi source datasets to support patient costing or activity based funding and include what tools and techniques did you use, and how did you ensure data quality?
* Provide an example of how you worked collaboratively with analytics colleagues to produce robust, reproducible analysis and translate it into clear insights for financial or funding related decision making.
Use the link below to access our Capability Application tool, designed to help you excel in the recruitment process. Practice your responses with the example questions provided to effectively highlight your achievements and the strategies you used to accomplish them.
Capability application tool | NSW Public Service Commission
For role related queries or questions contact Mauricio Olivera on and quote REQ656682
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Closing Date: 7 May 2026
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Our commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
At the Ministry of Health, we are committed to creating a diverse, inclusive and flexible environment which reflects the community and customers we serve. We actively promote the employment of women, people with a disability, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, LGBTIQ+ community and people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.
If you identify as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander and would like assistance with your application or to obtain more information on how to apply, please visit The Stepping Up Initiative.
To be eligible for employment in these roles you must be an Australian citizen, or a permanent resident of Australia, or a New Zealand citizen with a current New Zealand Passport, or hold a valid visa with permission to work in Australia.
Additional information
* This recruitment may be used to create a Talent Pool for similar future roles (ongoing or temporary) that may arise over the next 18 months.
* Please note the selection process will include a range of merit-based techniques including a technical assessment to assist in determining your suitability for the role.
* For more information about working at the NSW Health, please visit our career portal.