Associate Director Allied Health

**Reference Number**:3563

**Category**:Allied Health

**Department**:Allied Health

**_Are you a current Austin Health employee?_**

Austin Health is the major provider of tertiary health services, health professional education and research across three sites in the north-east 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 Allied Health**

Allied Health employs over 1,000 health professionals across 27 disciplines, broadly known as the therapies and sciences, who work as key members of the multidisciplinary team aiming to provide the best outcomes for patients via preventing, diagnosing and treating a range of healthcare conditions.

Allied Health staff support patients at every stage of their healthcare journey across Austin Health with services provided across all sites (acute and sub-acute), in the ambulatory setting, at home and in the community.

The vision of Allied Health is to enrich lives through exceptional care and partnerships. This role forms collaborative partnerships with allied health professionals, Austin Health colleagues, and external partners, to build an understanding of the value and contribution of allied health in the broader healthcare network. This approach helps our partners to contribute to our vision.

**About the role**

We are looking for an experienced allied health leader who is skilled in contemporary service design, strategy and improvement methodology.

The Associate Director - Service Design and Development is responsible for the design and implementation of innovative, evidence-based models of care that improve the quality of care and health outcomes of our patients. This role is an integral part of the allied health senior leadership team, reporting through to the Chief Allied Health Officer. The Associate Director - Service Design and Development works collaboratively and alongside our other Associate Directors - Workforce Capability and Innovation and Research, and with the Allied Health Heads of Department, to achieve our vision of enriching lives through exceptional care and partnerships.

**About you**

We are looking for an allied health leader who has:

- Extensive experience in the leadership of a complex health service
- Demonstrated knowledge of contemporary patient-centric models of care and experience in supporting teams to test and implement new approaches that meet consumer needs.
- Excellent leadership and interpersonal skills, including the ability to initiate and foster strong working relationships with a range of stakeholders acting within a complex and dynamic environment.
- Demonstrated understanding of and ability to facilitate effective workplace change and act for the long term, building organisational change readiness, capability and resilience.
- Ability to initiate and maintain strategic relationships with stakeholders both internal and external to the organisation to advance goals.
- Proven experience in fostering an improvement environment and identifying and managing service improvement initiatives and local change processes, with capacity to work with highly motivated professional staff with competing allegiances to Austin Health and their professional disciplines.
- Experience in managing projects and the utilisation of project management frameworks and tools.
- Substantial clinical practice experience.

**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, for living expenses, meals, and holiday accommodation.
- A suite of wellness initiatives designed to support you, including discounted fitness memberships and special offers on health insurance, and a comprehensive wellbeing program.
- Onsite childcare at Austin Hospital, easy access via public transport and car parking options.
- Mentoring and career development opportunities.

**Work with us**

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

**Application closing date: 1 August 2025