Program Coordinator - Victorian Rural Generalist Program - Fixed Term - Full Time

Position: Program Coordinator - Victorian Rural Generalist Program

Location: Remote or Negotiable within Rural and Regional Victoria

EFT/Hours: 1.0 EFT (80 hours per fortnight)

Status:Fixed Term Full time (2 year contract 1/7/2024 - 30/6/2026)

Salary/Hourly rate: $119,714 per annum plus 11.5% superannuation

The successful candidate will be employed by NCN Health, however will be seconded to the Department of Health for the term of the contract.

About the Role:

The Victorian Government is responsible for ensuring that a wide range of health care services are delivered to the Victorian community. In 2019, the Department of Health developed a Strengthening Rural Generalist Training plan that built on existing department funded rural medical workforce programs and investment in rural medical workforce training to develop a statewide VRGP. The Victorian Rural Generalist Program (VRGP) is a key priority that supports the education and training of rural medical practitioners with the aim of encouraging rural recruitment and retention to meet rural community need.

The Program Coordinator is focused on the state-wide coordination of VRGP delivery, budget management, monitoring, reporting, marketing, stakeholder engagement and pre-vocational education activities. The role provides education and expert advice to internal and external stakeholders on delivering the John Flynn Prevocational Doctors Program (JFPDP), the effective use of the VRGP trainee information management systems and other components of the VRGP.

The role is required to travel to the five rural regions (Barwon Southwest, Gippsland, Grampians, Hume and Loddon Mallee) to support Regional Coordination and Clinical Leads. Occasional interstate travel is required for meetings and marketing events.

If you have a passion for strengthening rural health programs and have the following knowledge and skills, we would love to hear from you:

• People management: aligns team with the organisational values and goals through effective people management and modelling,
• Building productive relationships and networks: able to establish and maintain cooperative, collaborative relationships with people at all levels, develop and maintain effective networks, and forge useful partnerships with people across jurisdictions, sectors, and communities.
• Operational planning and change management: strong record of achieving planned outputs/outcomes by developing and implementing sound plans which produce workable solutions, and ability to drive organisational changes in accordance with business objectives.
• Problem-solving: seeks all relevant information for problem-solving; high-level conceptual, analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to deliver robust evidence-based advice;
• Leadership: builds team commitment by demonstrating personal conviction; translates organisational strategy into meaningful long-term plans and objectives for own area of responsibility; motivates others to deliver against goals.
• Creativity and innovation: generate new ideas, draws on a range of information sources to identify new ways of doing things, actively influences events and promotes ideas, translates creative ideas into workplace improvements, reflects on experience and is open to new ways to improve practice.
• Drive and commitment: be enthusiastic and committed, demonstrate capacity for sustained effort and hard work, set high standards of performance for self and others.
• Decisiveness: takes rational and sound decisions based on a consideration of the facts and alternatives; makes tough decisions, sometimes with incomplete information; evaluates rational and emotional elements of situations; makes quick decisions where required; commits to a definite course of action.
• Teamwork: cooperates and works well with others in pursuit of team goals, collaborates and shares information, shows consideration, concern and respect for other feelings and ideas, accommodates and works well with the different working styles of others, encourages resolution of conflict within the group.
• Tertiary Qualification in fields related to health care provision or public administration

Enquiries:

Helen Finneran, VRGP Manager, Workforce Strategy and Wellbeing.

Telephone: 03 9691 9191 or Email: helen.finneran@health.vic.gov.au

For further information please see position description and submit response to the Key Selection Criteria for your application to be considered.

Closing Date:

Tuesday, 16th April 2024 at 11:59pm

As an inclusive employer, NCN Health is committed to improving diversity and equity in our workforce. We encourage applications from all parts of our community, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people from culturally diverse backgrounds, LGBTIQ+ people, and people with lived experience of disability.

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