Improvement Advisor

**Reference Number**:765**Category**:Administration and support**Department**:Strategy, Planning & Program Management**_Are you a current Austin Health employee?_**
- Austin Health is the major provider of tertiary health services, health professional education and research across three campuses in the Northeast of Melbourne and state-wide. We have a highly engaged, diverse and collaborative workforce that is unified by our goal to help people live healthy and fulfilled lives.**About Strategy and Sustainability**
- The Service Improvement and Innovation Team reports through to the Strategy and Sustainability Directorate, and enables an enterprise approach to improvement and innovation, and project management. The focus of the Service Improvement and Innovation function is on improvement projects with an organisation wide impact; service improvement and innovation support; coaching and capability building in improvement and project methodologies; and to support the development of staff engagement in service improvement and innovation.**About the role**
- The Improvement Advisor will provide improvement knowledge and skills to support delivery of improvement initiatives and improvement capability building within Austin Health.- A regular day will see you:
- Facilitate successful management of improvement and redesign work at Austin Health, ensuring maximum value is realised from improvement initiatives
- Consistently employ the Austin Health improvement methodology, tools and templates
- Facilitate capability building of Austin Health staff in improvement and redesign
- Champion the provision of responsive, high quality, cost effective and sustainable improvement and redesign across Austin Health, aligned with strategic priorities and to achieve specified outcomes

**About you**
- You will be someone who has excellent communication and collaboration skills, with demonstrated experience in improvement, redesign and/or process improvement in a healthcare setting.- To be successful in this role, you'll bring with you:
- Demonstrated ability or working towards coaching others in improvement
- Demonstrated ability to gather, collate, analyse and present data for improvement
- Strong track record of working collaboratively with key stakeholders to develop and implement improvement initiatives that will deliver sustained performance improvement Experience in group facilitation, capability building and/or delivery of training
- Well-developed communication and presentation skills with an ability to influence others

**Our benefits**
- Working at Austin Health means enjoying a strong sense of purpose, engaging in meaningful work every day. Our people also receive a variety of rewarding benefits, including:
- Greater take-home pay through generous salary packaging benefits, for living expenses, meals and holiday accommodation
- A suite of wellness initiatives designed to support you, including discounts on fitness memberships and health insurance, and a comprehensive wellbeing program
- Mentoring and career development opportunities
- Onsite childcare, easy access via public transport, car parking and end of journey facilities for cyclists

**Work with us**-
**Interested in finding out more about this opportunity? Read the **position description** for further details.**

**Application closing date: 29 September 2024