Senior Project Officer

Overview

💼 South Western Sydney Local Health District

📅 REQ612671 Requisition #

Employment Type: Permanent Full Time, working 38 hours per week
Location: Bangala Building, Liverpool Hospital - Eastern Campus, Warwick Farm
Position Classification: Health Manager Level 2
Remuneration: $109,857.00 - $129,624.00 per annum

About the Opportunity
This position sits at the intersection of health and urban planning, working to shape healthier built environments across South Western Sydney. It’s an opportunity to influence long-term population health outcomes by embedding health considerations into planning, policy, and development projects.

The position is with the Healthy Places team which sits within the broader Collaboration Unit, Population Health SWSLHD. The position works closely with local councils, NSW Government agencies, developers, community organisations, and internal SWSLHD teams. Collaboration is central, requiring cross-sector partnerships to ensure health is a priority in planning and development decisions. The position also contributes to District and Population Health strategic project and business priorities.

Responsibilities

What You'll be Doing

The Senior Project Officer - Health Places contributes to healthy urban development and environments projects and strategies, supports business processes in Population Health with a specific focus in healthy places and relationships with local government and contributes to district and population health strategic priority projects and business priorities of the Collaboration Unit.

Where You'll Be Working

SWSLHD Population Health aims to protect and promote the health of the local population, reduce health inequalities, and achieve optimal health and wellbeing for all residents of South Western Sydney.

The services provided include prevention, early intervention, and health promotion programs designed to help individuals and families adopt healthy behaviours and avoid illness. The team works in partnership with the community to create health-promoting physical and social environments, ensuring accessible, fair, and culturally appropriate services.

SWSLHD Population Health is committed to continuous quality improvement and environmental sustainability, upholding the district's CORE values of Collaboration, Openness, Respect, and Empowerment.

Working here means being part of a dedicated team focused on leading care and building healthier communities.

Qualifications & Requirements

To be considered for this position, please ensure you address the below questions as thoroughly as possible. View our application guide for information on how to respond to criteria and improve your application.

• Tertiary qualifications in relevant health-related discipline or relevant experience.

• High level understanding of evidence-based practice, healthy urban development, health outcome measurement, and emerging trends in the Australian health care system.

• Demonstrated high level analytical and problem solving skills, with the ability to gather, analyse and interpret quantitative and qualitative information.

• Demonstrated experience in health service planning, and/or policy development, and/or project management and/or health services research.

Licensing

- Applicants must possess an Australian C-Class driver's license (including P1 or P2). Those who hold a C class license (P1 or P2 included) from a state other than NSW must obtain a NSW C class (P1 or P2 included) license within three months of appointment. Learner's licenses are not permitted.

Salary Packaging & Benefits

Salary Packaging: South Western Sydney Local Health District employees are able to enjoy the benefits of salary packing. Visit Smart Salary for more details.

Health & Fitness: South Western Sydney Local Health District employees receive discounted Gym Membership/Corporate Wellbeing Programs, including Fitness Passport.

Transforming Your Experience

Transforming Your Experience (TYE) is SWSLHDs key strategy to always positively transform your, our patients, our consumers, our staffs and our communities experiences across our organisation and services. Our vision is that our care is always safe, high quality and personalised and all our staff are supported and empowered to achieve their full potential. SWSLHD upholds the CORE Values – Collaboration, Openness, Respect and Empowerment.

Eligibility To be eligible for permanent appointment to a position in NSW Health, you must have an Australian citizenship or permanent Australian residency.

EEO Statement: At South Western Sydney Local Health District we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, where we don’t just accept differences but we honour and support it. We encourage people of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander background, people with a disability and people from the LGBTQI+ community to apply.

Safeguarding Statement: SWSLHD is committed to driving a child safe culture that upholds children and young people’s rights. Existing staff of SWSLHD and those seeking employment are required to take the safety, welfare and wellbeing of children and young people seriously while taking action to keep them safe from harm and abuse.

NSW Health acknowledges the people of the many traditional countries and language groups of New South Wales. It acknowledges the wisdom of Elders past and present, and pays respect to all Aboriginal communities of today.

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