At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead impactful projects to improve healthcare services across two major hospitals.
- Company: Join Northern Adelaide Local Health Network, a leader in public healthcare.
- Benefits: Enjoy competitive salary, flexible work options, and career growth opportunities.
- Other info: Inclusive workplace culture that values diversity and supports employee wellbeing.
- Why this job: Make a real difference in community health while developing your leadership skills.
- Qualifications: Experience in project management and improvement methodologies required.
The predicted salary is between 125490 - 125490 $ per year.
Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN) is shaping the future of public healthcare for Adelaide's northern communities. If you're an experienced improvement professional ready to lead meaningful change across two of South Australia's busiest metropolitan hospitals, this contract role offers the scope and purpose to make your mark.
Where You'll Make an Impact
Based at Modbury Hospital with regular presence at Lyell McEwin Hospital, you'll lead project and improvement activity across NALHN. Reporting into a network that serves a diverse and growing population, your responsibilities will include:
- Leading end-to-end project delivery across clinical and operational improvement initiatives at both Modbury and Lyell McEwin Hospital sites
- Applying structured improvement methodologies to identify, design, and embed sustainable change across services
- Engaging and coordinating multidisciplinary stakeholders, including clinical teams, executives, and external partners
- Monitoring project performance, risks, and outcomes, and reporting progress to NALHN leadership
What You'll Bring
- Demonstrated experience leading complex projects or improvement programs within a health or similarly regulated environment
- Proficiency in recognised improvement frameworks such as Lean, Six Sigma, or the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care standards
- Strong stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to influence across clinical and non-clinical groups
- Proven ability to manage competing priorities across multiple sites or workstreams
- Experience preparing executive-level reporting, business cases, or briefing papers
- Tertiary qualifications in health management, project management, or a related discipline
About You
In this role you will have strong interpersonal and communication skills which will enable you to successfully problem solve, resolve conflicts and negotiate, including the ability to engage in difficult conversations, whilst building and maintaining relationships. An ability to effectively manage multiple, diverse and competing priorities and demonstrated resilience within a stressful and complex environment is essential to this role.
Benefits of working at NALHN
From salary packaging to flexible working arrangements, a large range of opportunities for movement and career progression, you’ll find there are lots of benefits of working with Northern Adelaide Local Health Network. Salary packaging is an option for saving money by paying for some of your everyday expenses from your salary before it is taxed. Relocation assistance may be available for successful applicants from interstate or overseas. NALHN supports and fosters a culture in which employees feel they belong and feel safe at work. The culture aims to encourage all people to use their talents and to be valued and rewarded for their contributions.
SA Health is committed to providing an inclusive workplace that embraces diversity and inclusion for all employees. We strongly encourage applications from people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent, culturally diverse backgrounds, members of the LGBTIQA+SB community and people who live with disability and/or neurodivergence. We are committed to making workplace adjustments to provide a positive and supportive work environment. You are encouraged to let us know if you have any support or access requirements during the recruitment process and beyond to ensure you can perform at your best.
The South Australian public sector promotes diversity and flexible ways of working including part-time. Applicants are encouraged to discuss the flexible working arrangements for this role. Appointment will be subject to a satisfactory Criminal History Check.
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