Project Lead, New Women's and Children's Hospital Project

**SA Health**
**Job reference**: 901684
**Location**: 5000 - ADELAIDE
**Job status**: Long Term Contract
**Eligibility**: Open to Everyone
- **Women's and Children's Health Network, Corporate Services, Adelaide (5000)**:

- **Salary**
- **Classification - RN/M5.2 - Registered Nursing/Midwifery LV 5.2 - $160,848 + Superannuation and Salary Sacrifice Benefits**:

- **Second Classification - AHP5 - Allied Health Professional L5 - $127,346 to $139,281** **+ Superannuation and Salary Sacrifice Benefits**
- **Full time - Term Contract (term contract up to 3 years)**

**About the Opportunity**

We currently have an exciting opportunity to join the **New WCH Project Team**as a** Clinical and Operations Project Lead,**where you will be responsible for:

- Providing high-level support to the Executive Director - New WCH and Project Managers in planning and delivering the New WCH Project to support the strategic direction of the Women’s and Children’s Network.
- Supporting strategic and operational objectives in health service and facility planning, and in monitoring and evaluating services for the New WCH.
- Providing leadership expertise informed by clinical and clinical support roles through engaging in project user groups and strategic user groups.
- Supporting the translation of clinician, staff, consumer and community engagement strategies into practice.
- Leading key projects to ensure the New WCH project improves equity of health care access, better integrates care, and enhances health outcomes for the community.
- Leading and supporting a culture of clinical excellence and high performance across all areas of the network to inform planning for the New WCH.
- Developing strategies to support WCHN in maximising operational efficiency and ensuring operational readiness activities.
- Creating together our values to empower and engage with staff and volunteers in embodying our vision and mission to provide excellent care for our community.
- Championing change management and providing support and leadership

**About You**

To be successful in this role, you will have:

- Appropriate Allied Health degree or equivalent qualification in relevant professional stream.
- Registered or eligible for registration/membership as an Allied Health Professional with the relevant registration board or association where applicable**.**:

- Experience as a leader or manager in the health care industry
- Demonstrated strategic thinker with leadership skills and abilities to lead and motive the multidisciplinary team through the complexity of challenges, uncertainty and rapid change so that effective outcomes are achieved.
- Proven experience in managing and leading complex projects
- Strong analytical, organisational and problem-solving abilities with the demonstrated characteristics of being a responsive decision maker, negotiator and resolver of conflict to a high level.

**What WCHN Can Offer You**
- Salary package a range of benefits (including living expenses such as mortgage, rent, utility bills and groceries) up to $9,010 each FBT year + $2,650 for Meal Entertainment expenses each FBT year. Click here more information
- Access to Fitness Passport (workplace health and fitness program that gives you and your family access to a wide choice of gyms and pools across South Australia.)
- Access to generous leave provisions and professional development opportunities
- Support for you and your family via our Employee Assistance Program

**About Us**

The **Women’s & Children’s Health Network** is the state’s leading provider of best practice health care for women, babies, children and young people across South Australia. We offer:

- specialist care for children with acute and chronic conditions
- state of the art maternity and obstetric care services
- community based services reaching hundreds of thousands of babies, children and young people, their families and communities across SA
- specialist programs including Mental Health, Child & Family Health services, Youth and Aboriginal Health services.

Join our patient centred team and contribute to providing South Australia’s women, babies, children and young people with the best health care through both within our hospital or via our many and varied community services and programs.

Our values of Compassion, Respect, Equity, Accountability and working Together for Excellence or CREATE Together represent who we are as a Network.

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**Special Conditions**

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