At a Glance
- Tasks: Coordinate essential support services and lead teams to ensure efficient operations.
- Company: Great Ocean Road Health, a high-performing health service in a stunning coastal location.
- Benefits: Attractive salary packaging, professional development, and a vibrant staff wellbeing program.
- Other info: Dynamic environment with opportunities for growth and community engagement.
- Why this job: Make a meaningful impact on community health while enjoying a rewarding career by the coast.
- Qualifications: Experience in support services coordination and strong leadership skills.
The predicted salary is between 81000 - 99000 $ per year.
Location: Apollo Bay, VIC, Australia, 3233
Company: Barwon South West
Employment Type: Temporary Full Time
Hours per fortnight: 76
Job Category: Facilities and Infrastructure Co-ordinator
Join a high-performing health service recognised with the 2024 Premier's Small Health Service of the Year Award. Balance a rewarding career with an enviable coastal lifestyle in Lorne and Apollo Bay. Make a meaningful impact by coordinating essential support services, leading teams, driving service excellence, and ensuring safe, efficient operations across multiple sites.
Great Ocean Road Health serves the communities of Lorne, Apollo Bay, and the Surf Coast, providing high-quality, accessible healthcare close to home. Formed in 2019 through the integration of Lorne Community Hospital and Otway Health, we offer a range of services across our Lorne and Apollo Bay campuses. Our goal is to meet the growing healthcare needs of the community, ensuring sustainable, robust care for the future while maintaining local services and staff levels.
About the Role
We are seeking a motivated and experienced Support Services Coordinator to play a key role in delivering high-quality facility, infrastructure, and support services across Great Ocean Road Health. Working closely with the Support Services Manager, you will be responsible for the day-to-day coordination and operational management of our Catering, Environmental Services, and Maintenance teams. This position ensures the delivery of safe, efficient, and customer-focused services that support excellent healthcare outcomes.
The role provides operational oversight of Great Ocean Road Health's facilities, properties, infrastructure, equipment, and assets, ensuring compliance with legislative, accreditation, and organisational requirements. You will contribute to the planning, maintenance, and continuous improvement of support services while promoting a strong culture of safety, quality, accountability, and exceptional customer service across all sites.
This is a full-time, fixed-term opportunity for approximately 12 months, commencing in December 2026 and concluding in late January 2028, covering a period of parental leave. The successful applicant will be required to work across and travel between our Lorne and Apollo Bay campuses, supporting operations across both locations.
This is an exciting opportunity for a hands-on leader who thrives in a dynamic environment and is passionate about delivering high-quality support services within a healthcare setting. Working at Great Ocean Road Health gives you the opportunity to assist individuals, families and groups living, working and visiting rural communities with their health care needs, making for a rewarding and satisfying experience.
Our team is strong and diverse and is supported and nurtured through continuous improvement programs and opportunities for professional development and growth.
Work Along the Iconic Great Ocean Road
Join Great Ocean Road Health and experience a rewarding career in one of Australia’s most breathtaking coastal destinations, serving vibrant communities along the Surf Coast and Otways. Excellent working conditions with a high sense of job satisfaction. A vibrant staff wellbeing program and access to our 24/7 Employee Assistance Program. Wide range of professional development opportunities to enhance your career. Attractive salary packaging benefits. Living expenses capped at $9,010 and meals and entertainment capped at $2,650.
Community Engagement - our health service encourages you to be actively involved in the community health education initiative and preventative care.
Contact person: Orlaigh O'Donnell and People and Culture
Phone: 03 5237 8500
We, Great Ocean Road Health, acknowledge our offices are built on unceded lands of the Gadubanud People of the Mear Nation. We pay our respects to all First Nations Peoples and will continue to strengthen the complex knowledge systems of health and healing that intertwine the landscape and communities we live and work in. Great Ocean Road Health is committed to improving health outcomes and pathways for First Nations People and ensuring a culturally safe environment.
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Great Ocean Road Health is an exceptional employer, offering a unique opportunity to work in the stunning coastal regions of Lorne and Apollo Bay while making a meaningful impact on community health. With a strong focus on employee wellbeing, professional development, and a vibrant work culture, staff are supported through continuous improvement programs and attractive salary packaging benefits. Join a dedicated team that values safety, quality, and exceptional customer service, all while enjoying the breathtaking scenery along the iconic Great Ocean Road.
