Address Job Description
Location: Melbourne | Northern Metropolitan
Job type: Full time, Part time
Organisation: Austin Health
Salary: Salary not specified
Occupation: Community Services, Health and Allied Health, Other, Medical, Nursing, Aged Care
Reference: 50293
Associate Director of Allied Health - Service Design and Delivery
Operationalise the core values of Austin Health through supportive leadership and strategic oversight
Support and mentor Allied Health teams, building capability and capacity so that everyone feels engaged to contribute their best
Full time or part time opportunity, with flexibility in working hours
Austin Health is the major provider of tertiary health services, health professional education and research across three campuses in the north-east of Melbourne and state-wide. We have a highly engaged, diverse and collaborative workforce that is unified by our purpose, which is to help people live healthy and fulfilled lives.
About the Allied Health division
Austin Health's Allied Health division employs over 1,000 health professionals across 27 disciplines, broadly known as the therapies and sciences, who work as key members of the multidisciplinary team aiming to provide the best outcomes for patients via preventing, diagnosing and treating a range of healthcare conditions. Our staff support patients at every stage of their healthcare journey across Austin Health with services provided across all three sites (acute and sub-acute), in the ambulatory setting, at home and in the community.
About the role
The Associate Director of Allied Health – Service Design and Delivery is recognised as an Allied Health leader in contemporary Service Design. This role will see you operationalise the core values of Austin Health through supportive leadership and strategic oversight of the Allied Health service development across therapies and sciences. This newly created role is an integral part of the Allied Health senior leadership team and reports to the Chief Allied Health Officer, who sits on Austin Health’s Executive Committee providing Allied Health with a representative voice at the highest level of the organisation.
A regular day will see you:
Build collaborative partnerships with Allied Health professionals, Austin Health colleagues, and external partners to embed an understanding of the value and role of Allied Health in the broader healthcare network
Represent and lead Allied Health at both organisation wide and Division level service delivery and workforce discussions, ensuring Allied Health has a strong and influential voice at the table
Identify opportunities for service redesign in alignment with best evidence informed practice
Partner with consumers in the co-design of new services or in the review of existing services
Provide leadership and support to the Allied Health leadership team to enact strategic pans, service redesign strategies and other organisational key performance indicators
About you
To be successful in this role, you'll bring with you:
Experience in leadership and management of a complex health service/function
Excellent interpersonal skills, including the ability to initiate and foster strong working relationships with a range of stakeholders acting within a complex and dynamic environment
Demonstrated understanding of contemporary patient centric models, frameworks and services, and experience in the implementation of service practices that meet customers/patients and organisational needs
Proven experience in fostering an improvement environment and identifying and managing service improvement initiatives and local change processes, with capacity to work with highly motivated professional staff with competing allegiances to Austin Health and their professional disciplines
Demonstrated understanding and ability to facilitate effective workplace change, to build organisational change readiness, capability and resilience
Our benefits
Working at Austin Health means enjoying a strong sense of purpose, engaging in meaningful work every day. Our people also receive a variety of rewarding benefits, including:
Greater take-home pay through generous salary packaging, for living expenses, meals, and holiday accommodation
A suite of wellness initiatives designed to support you, including discounted fitness memberships and special offers on health insurance, and a comprehensive wellbeing program
Onsite childcare, easy access via public transport, discounted car parking and end of journey facilities for cyclists
Five weeks annual leave (pro-rata for part time), plus purchased leave options.
Inclusion at Austin
We celebrate, value, and include people of all backgrounds, genders, identities, cultures, bodies and abilities. We welcome and support applications from anyone identifying as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander, physically or culturally diverse, LGBTQIA+, and people of any age.
Work with us!
If you feel this role is right for you, we encourage your early application as applicants may be contacted prior to the closing date. All appointments are made subject to a satisfactory National Police Check and if required, a Working With Children Check. If you require any reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process, you are welcome to reach out to the hiring manager.
