Director Emergency Management And Business Continuity

The Hospital:

The Royal Children's Hospital's (RCH) Vision is "A world where all kids thrive".

RCH is a cornerstone member of the Melbourne Children's Campus, partnering with Murdoch Children's Research Institute, The University of Melbourne Department of Paediatrics and The Royal Children's Hospital Foundation.

RCH has cared for the children and young people of Victoria for more than 150 years since it was founded in 1870. A full range of paediatrics and adolescent health services are provided plus tertiary and quaternary care for the most critically ill and medically complex patients in Victoria, Tasmania, southern NSW and other states around Australia and overseas. The Hospital has more than 6,000 staff, a budget of $850M, 12 wards and 350 beds. Annually, the RCH has 300,000+ Specialist Clinic appointments, 90,000+ Emergency Department presentations and 20,000 elective surgeries.

The RCH is committed to the Child Safe Standards.

RCH enjoys high employee engagement and is committed to staff safety and a positive culture through enactment of our Compact.

For further Information on RCH is available here.

• Work for Australia's leading Children's Hospital
• Pro-active and supportive leadership
• Full Time Fixed Term position with a two year assignment

About the Role

This is a Fixed Term Full Time position for a two year contract, at 76 hours per fortnight within the Emergency Management. You will be responsible for the development, implementation, and performance monitoring of Emergency Management and Business Continuity across the Royal Children's Hospital. The focus of the role is to assist all areas to ensure the core organisational aspects of prevention, preparedness, response, and recovery for emergency and disaster management are documented, evaluated, and continuously improved across RCH. This role is also responsible for establishing, maintaining and co-ordinating the Business Continuity program at RCH.

What you'll achieve:

• Lead and drive the Emergency Management Strategy and key stakeholder relationships in order to gain cooperation, negotiate where necessary and maintain beneficial relationships, both internal and external
• Develop, implement, and maintain an RCH Emergency Management program, following the key principles of Emergency Management and the Australasian Inter-agency Incident Management System (AIIMS)
• Ensure the effectiveness of the RCH Emergency Management governance and the RCH Emergency Management Plan and sub-plans and associated training requirements
• Develop and maintain the RCH Emergency Management improvement register and risk register and develop mitigation strategies to manage risks
• Represent RCH on internal and external emergency committees e.g. Security, WHS, Department of health Vic, precinct partners and chair the Emergency Management Planning Committee and Emergency Management working groups

Your skills and experience

• Demonstrated experience in providing high level advice to senior managers on a range of Emergency Management matters
• Extensive experience (5+ years) in Business Continuity, Emergency Management or related fields, preferably in the healthcare industry
• Proven experience in leading organisational emergency preparedness and response, in a large, diverse setting. Including a significant understanding of Business Continuity management
• Demonstrated experience in developing, maintaining, and delivering organisational capacity and training programs. Whilst understanding jurisdictional disaster management arrangements and related legislation, policy, procedure, Australian standards, and best practice

If this sounds like you, click here to view the position description.

What we offer:

• Professional development and special events
• Culture of continuous improvement

Other requirements:

• Current National Criminal Record Check, or willing to obtain
• Valid Working with Children Check
• Current NDIS Worker Screening Check, or willing to obtain
• Compliance with RCHs "Staff Immunisation - Prevention of Vaccine Preventable Diseases" procedure

Application process

To apply, you will need a resume and a tailored cover letter outlining your skills, experience, and suitability for the position in line with the requirements of the position description.

Shortlisting for this position will commence immediately, we encourage you to apply promptly!

For more information about this position please contact Peter Davey at ***********@rch.org.au