Senior Medical Workforce Advisor, Queensland Health

About your role

As a Senior Medical Workforce Advisor, you will be the expert point of contact for complex workforce and payroll queries within Medical Workforce Services. Your insights will support safe, compliant, and efficient practices for medical staff across Princess Alexandra Hospital and Metro South Addiction and Mental Health Services.

Key Responsibilities :

• Lead review and improvement of workflows and administrative processes to boost efficiency and consistency.
• Provide expert advice on HR policies, industrial instruments, and workforce compliance.
• Support fatigue risk management through detailed payroll and rostering analysis.
• Deliver training and support on payroll and rostering systems (e.g., myHR, SAP).

About you

You are a skilled communicator and problem solver with strong knowledge of HR frameworks, payroll systems, and employment legislation. You thrive in a fast-paced environment and are committed to continuous improvement and service excellence.

Skills and Attributes :

• Advanced knowledge or rapid acquisition of payroll systems and employment legislation.
• Proven ability to analyze data and provide actionable workforce solutions.
• Ability to lead process improvements and manage competing priorities.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office and reporting tools.

What we can offer you :

• We are renowned for teaching and research excellence with strong relations with Queensland's leading tertiary institutions.
• We want to empower you to build a long-term career, with countless opportunities to learn and grow, no matter your role.
• You'll have all the benefits of working for Queensland's world-class public health system including generous professional development allowances and/or leave, study and research assistance, corporate discounts, and employee wellness programs.

Princess Alexandra Hospital :

The Princess Alexandra Hospital (PAH) is a tertiary health care centre providing care in most major adult specialties. We provide world-class health care to Brisbane City's southern suburbs across emergency, medical, mental health, and surgical services, including liver and kidney transplants.

We are nationally recognized for our expertise in trauma management and organ transplants and are one of Australia's leading academic and research health centres. The PAH hosts Australia's most advanced medical research facility, the Translational Research Institute (TRI), as well as a new Clinical Research Facility for the discoveries made at TRI to be trialed in a safe clinical environment.

We're expanding our hospital to ensure everyone gets the care they need. We're adding more beds, modernizing our buildings, and improving our spaces to treat kidney and cancer patients, with all new services and facilities planned to open by 2027.

Princess Alexandra Hospital offers countless opportunities to learn and grow your career

INTEGRITY | COMPASSION | ACCOUNTABILITY | RESPECT | ENGAGEMENT | EXCELLENCE

Created by employees for employees to shape our culture and inspire positive interactions in the workplace. Diversity of ideas, skills, traditions, and customs is celebrated as one of our greatest strengths. Having a workforce that reflects and understands the needs and expectations of our community is vital to delivering safe, kinder, and more inclusive care.

We recognize our strength comes from the diversity of our people and encourage applications from people of all genders, ethnicities, ages, abilities, languages, sexual orientations, and family responsibilities.

We are Metro South Health :

We are the major public healthcare provider for Brisbane's south side, Logan, Redlands, and the Scenic Rim, operating five major hospitals and a range of community, specialty, and statewide healthcare services.

We are bold, innovative, collaborative, and inspiring. We save lives, change lives, and make the world a better place. We are part of and proud of the community we serve.

We are better together.