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Salary- Northern Adelaide Local Health Network – Modbury Hospital – Modbury
- Salary: $119,317 - $123,822 p.a. – ASO8 - Temporary Full-Time, up until 28 February 2025
About Us:
The Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN) provides care for more than 400,000 people living in the northern metropolitan area of Adelaide and boasts newly redeveloped wards and Emergency and Outpatient Departments, with plans for the addition of more brand-new facilities in the near future. NALHN provides a full range of high-quality medical, surgical, maternity, diagnostic, emergency and support services. NALHN offers a range of primary health care services across the northern metropolitan area of Adelaide, with a focus on providing preventive and health promoting programs in the community, and transition and hospital substitution and avoidance programs targeted at chronic disease and frail aged.
With a workforce of almost 6,500 employees, NALHN works to ensure quality and timely delivery of health care, whilst building a highly skilled, engaged and resilient workforce based on a culture of collaboration, respect, integrity and accountability.
Our core values of respect, integrity and accountability underpin our commitment to provide excellence in care, innovation, creativity, leadership and equity in service provision and health outcomes to the Northern area communities.
At NALHN Everyone Has a Story, Everyone Matters, Everyone Contributes and Everyone Grows.
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.
Across SA Health there are always opportunities for you to develop your skills and career at any of our metropolitan or regional sites.
Relocation assistance may be available for successful applicants from interstate or overseas.
About You:
Are you a dedicated, compassionate and enthusiastic Manager with experience in journalism, public relations, communication or a related field looking for an opportunity to join a dynamic, growing healthcare network where you will be part of a supportive team delivering high quality care to the community? If so, then this could be the opportunity for you. This position will offer you professional growth opportunities within a supportive and inclusive culture.
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.
About the Role:
An exciting opportunity is presented to work within the Northern Adelaide Local Health Network as the Manager - Communications and Engagement within the Communications and Engagement Department.
As the Manager – Communications and Engagement you will play a key role in managing the reputation, public relations and projects of NALHN as required.
In this role you will lead and manage the strategy, planning and delivery of all aspects of communications projects as a key enabler for the promotion and branding. The development of a communication strategy will be developed to underpin the effective change, positive reputation management and stakeholder engagement, you will be recognised as a key partner in the design and delivery of strategy.
As the professional and operational lead for the Communications the position will work closely with the Communications Team and provide staff management as required. In this role you will harness the opportunities available through digital media to build the programs reputation, and support stakeholder engagement.
The Manager is responsible for identifying, developing and leading strategic communication strategies which support the program and are consistent with LHN and SA Health Strategic Plan. A key component of the role is providing quality assurance activities for internal and external communications inclusive of public relations, marketing, promotion and community relations programs in partnership with the Media and Communications function for SA Health.
In this role you will manage internal and external communication for the programs such as communiques, publications, corporate presentations, online content (intranet and internet) and the development of other high-level documents.
The Manager – Communications and Engagement also oversees major events such as Ministerial launches and visits on behalf of the Chief Executive Officer.
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.
Check(s)
- DHS Working With Children Check (WWCC)
- National Police Certificate (NPC) for employment involving no contact with vulnerable groups required for this position (general employment)
Immunisation Risk for this position is – Category B (indirect contact with blood or body substances)
SA Health Services are required to implement the Addressing vaccine preventable disease: Occupational assessment, screening and vaccination policy in the workplace.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants are encouraged to apply. Job Ref: 857171
Enquiries
Roslyn Agate
Interim Executive Director, Corporate Governance and Communications
Phone: 0421 791 ***
E-mail: ************@sa.gov.au
Application Closing Date
9 February 2024 - 11.55PM
Attachments
857171 - Manager - Communications and Engagement - ASO8 - role description.pdf
* Refer to the SA Health Career Website - How to apply for further information.
