Project Manager, New Footscray Hospital

Are you ready to make a lasting impact on one of Victoria's most significant healthcare initiatives? Western Health is leading the charge in transforming healthcare across the region.

The Victorian Government has announced an investment of $1.495 billion to build a new Footscray Hospital (NFH). The NFH will provide up to 599 points of care, allow almost 17,000 additional patients to be treated each year, as well as almost 20,000 additional emergency department admissions and include a major expansion of mental health care services.

We're seeking an innovative and visionary Operations Readiness Project Manager to drive the realisation of the new Footscray Hospital's vision as the People’s Hospital in the west.

As the Operations Readiness Project Manager, you'll play a pivotal role in ensuring the seamless operational readiness of our upcoming hospital. Your responsibilities will include leading innovative future state operational planning, coordinating multidisciplinary teams, and executing key activation and transition initiatives to ensure a smooth and efficient hospital launch.

Key objectives for this role include:

• Leading both clinical and non-clinical teams to facilitate a seamless transition, ensuring the successful realisation of the NFH vision.
• Spearheading the development of future state NFH service delivery plans aligned with industry best practices, ensuring exceptional healthcare service delivery standards.
• Leading the development of operations readiness strategies throughout the project lifecycle, fostering sustainable outcomes for the hospital.
• Crafting comprehensive activation plans covering training, workforce planning, logistical coordination for clinical and non-clinical moves, commissioning, operational acceptance planning and testing, and effective communication strategies.

About you

• Extensive experience within the healthcare sector, spanning health infrastructure projects and/or clinical/non-clinical operations.
• Minimum three years of successful project management expertise.
• Proven track record of thriving in specialised, high-performing project teams within the healthcare domain.
• Highly motivated with exceptional interpersonal and communication skills.
• Attentive to detail, consistently delivering high standards and prioritising quality.
• Maintains objectivity and positivity during sustained periods of high work pressure.
• Capable of making informed judgments and articulating effective solutions across all levels.
• Strong team player adaptable to flexible and autonomous work environments.

Duties

• Develop and oversee comprehensive operations readiness, activation and transition plans, align to project timelines.
• Drive consensus among users and reference groups to foster innovative and forward-looking service delivery plans informing the development of enabling activation plans to support the implementation of future operating models.
• Provide leadership and authoritative guidance to internal and external stakeholders in implementing activation plans. This includes coordinating training, workforce planning, logistical arrangements for both clinical and non-clinical moves, commissioning and operational acceptance testing, and devising effective communication strategies.
• Oversee documentation for the operations readiness, activation, and transition project deliverables identifying dependencies, opportunities, and risks.
• Produce status reports in accordance with the project management office framework, ensuring alignment with project goals and standards. Facilitate oversight by the project's governance structure to enable informed decision-making and effective issue/risk mitigation.

About Us

Our workforce of over 11,000 employees are driven by our values of ‘Compassion, Accountability, Respect, Excellence and Safety’ (CARES). We value our people and provide them the opportunity to grow and develop.  Our teams are friendly and supportive, ensuring we deliver a safe, person-centred and connected patient experience.
Western Health is in a period of rapid growth. Our services comprise of four acute public hospitals: Footscray Hospital, Sunshine Hospital (including Joan Kirner Women's and Children's), Williamstown Hospital and Bacchus Marsh & Melton Hospital. We also operate Sunbury Day Hospital, Grant Lodge Residential Aged Care, as well as community health centres in Melton, Caroline Springs and Bacchus Marsh and a range of mental health and community-based services. We care for a diverse community of more than 1 million people with complex care needs ranging from Neonates to Geriatrics.

Our employees enjoy a wide range of benefits such as:

• Professional development support
• Career advancement opportunities
• Salary packaging including novated vehicle leasing
• Work-life balance

Western Health is an equal opportunity employer committed to attracting and retaining diversity in our workforce. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

Western Health is committed to providing a safe environment for the children and young people who are involved in our services, sites and operations. We follow and abide by all legislative requirements to keep children and young people safe.

All appointments are made subject to a satisfactory Police Record Check, an Immunisation status clearance (including evidence of COVID 19 vaccination) and (if applicable) a Working with Children’s Check.

Western Health do not accept unsolicited resumes/applications from Recruitment Agencies.