Change Manager
- Full time fixed term to December 2025 - 80 hours per fortnight with monthly paid day off
- Great opportunity to contribute to changes in healthcare for all Victorians
- Salary $150,000+ with 5 weeks annual leave, salary packaging available
- Hybrid – Melbourne CBD and WFH, flexible working options available
The Victorian Department of Health is investing and strengthening public pathology in Victoria. The Pathology Network West is an exciting transformation program spanning the four health services of the Parkville Precinct: The Royal Melbourne Hospital, The Royal Women’s Hospital, The Royal Children’s Hospital and Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre. This strategic program will amalgamate the pathology services within the Parkville Precinct forming a new public pathology entity that will provide world-class, research-led public pathology services.
Your new role:
- As Change Manager, you will utilise your capabilities, expertise, and experience to lead strategic and tactical change management activities for the transformation program.
- You will engage directly with the workforce to identify people, process and system change impacts and create the interventions that will enable Day 1 readiness for the new public pathology entity.
- This is a challenging role that will ensure change is introduced in a respectful and meaningful way and pathology employees have the tools and knowledge to embrace change.
About you:
- You have prior experience implementing change in a complex setting; prior change experience in relation to the adoption of new technology, or organisational change in a merger or transformation context is highly regarded.
- You have empathy for employees change experience and ensure feedback is captured and integrated into the change plans; prior experience with open-source change and or design thinking highly regarded.
- You enjoy working with multi-stakeholders in complex environments.
- You are flexible and adaptable and will change course as required when new priorities or information becomes available.
Why work with The Royal Melbourne Hospital?
- Join a values-based organisation offering great opportunities for career diversity and professional development, including training and research opportunities, as well as access to mentorship and leadership programs.
- Ongoing reward and recognition programs including monthly ‘You Made a Difference’ awards celebrating staff and teams across the organisation.
- Take advantage of an expanding employee benefits program, with comprehensive Health & Wellbeing programs to support work life balance, including onsite staff gym and staff vaccination program.
- Up to $15,000 tax free earnings with salary packaging options.
- Generous leave entitlements – five weeks annual leave per year (pro-rata for part time), additional monthly paid day off for full time staff.
The RMH stands in solidarity with First Nations people in work and care. We are proud to be a workplace that champions diversity, inclusion and equity for our staff and our community. Our goal is for our people to feel safe, included and supported so that they can be at their best every single day. We encourage talented people from all backgrounds, abilities, and identities to apply to our vacancies, and will consider adjustments to support such applications.
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All appointments are made subject to a satisfactory Criminal History Record Check, and where applicable, Working With Children Check (WWCC). All RMH employees are required to provide evidence of an immunisation assessment including evidence of vaccination against COVID-19 (3 doses) and Influenza with a TGA approved vaccine (mandatory for all clinical and or patient facing roles) prior to commencement. This is in accordance with the Victorian Minister of Health’s Mandatory Vaccination Orders for COVID-19 and legislated requirement for influenza vaccination.
As part of the overarching pathology reforms, the pathology services from the Royal Melbourne Hospital, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, the Royal Women’s Hospital and the Royal Children’s Hospital will transition to a new separate public pathology entity through a change process that is in progress. The new model for delivering public pathology services will present an exciting opportunity to improve the scope, scale and reach of pathology services and testing capability to all Victorians.
As this role is with the Royal Melbourne Hospital, the successful candidate for this role will be initially employed by the Royal Melbourne Hospital. Once the change process has been completed and the new public pathology entity is fully formed, which is anticipated to be in late 2024, this position and the successful candidate’s employment (including terms and conditions of employment) will transition to the new public pathology entity.
Please contact the hiring manager if you have any questions on the pathology reforms and transition of this role to the new entity.