Medical Workforce Strategy and Planning Manager

Location: Melbourne | Eastern Metropolitan

Job type: Full time

Organisation: Monash Health

**Salary**: Salary not specified

Occupation: Administration/Secretarial, Human Resources

Reference: 61833

**Are you**:

- an experienced medical workforce administrator with a strategic mind?
- an excellent communicator and collaborator with strong influencing and change management skills?
- an innovator with the ability to interpret and analyse workforce data to identify and execute strategic opportunities?
- keen to shape the future of Monash Health's medical workforce?

If you are, we are looking for you

**Monash Health is seeking a Medical Workforce Strategy and Planning Manager - Monash Doctors Workforce**

**About the Role**

Reporting to and working closely with the Director of Medical Services (Workforce), the Medical Workforce Strategy and Planning Manager is responsible for aligning Monash Health's strategic, service and business plans with the medical workforce, through the continuous review, design and execution of Monash Health's medical workforce strategy. The manager is also responsible for monitoring and addressing risks associated with said medical workforce strategy.

**About the Monash Doctors Workforce**

Monash Health is the largest employer of medical staff in Victoria, employing approximately 3000 medical staff (1500 Junior Medical Staff, 1500 Senior Medical Staff) across all medical specialties. These doctors work across multiple campuses, including 4 major hospitals (Monash Medical Centre Clayton, Dandenong Hospital, Casey Hospital, Victorian Heart Hospital), and many smaller hospital and community health services.

Many of our Monash Doctors are world leaders in their field and are well respected by international peers. They and the Clinical Units they lead rely on the Monash Doctors Workforce Unit to deliver exceptional medical employment and administration services so that Monash Health continues to attract and retain the best doctors in their field.

The Monash Doctors Workforce Unit is an innovative and high functioning team comprised of 22 dedicated staff members who are all equally committed to the goal of providing world class patient care by ensuring we provide the right doctors at the right place and at the right time. The unit is also committed to providing a seamless medical employment and administration service to our medical staff so medical staff can focus on what they do best - care for our patients.

**About You**

To be successful in this role, you will possess the following:

- Demonstrated ability to develop and execute strategy
- Extensive knowledge of the components and issues of the modern medical workforce
- Ability to work collaboratively with a wide range of stakeholders and customers
- Demonstrated evidence of creative problem-solving and decision-making skills
- Demonstrated ability to interpret and analyse data to generate innovative ideas or solutions
- Proven capacity to write accurate and coherent reports
- Demonstrated leadership capacity
- Capacity to lead and drive change
- Capacity to deliver projects.

**It is also highly desirable if you have**:

- Higher qualifications in business management and/or human resources
- A track record of developing and executing workforce strategies

**Our commitment to you**

Monash Health recognises the value of equal employment opportunity and is committed to patient safety and promoting fairness, equity and diversity in the workplace. At Monash Health we are relentless in our pursuit of excellence and work to our six guiding principles.

Success can only be achieved through its people, so should you be part of the Monash Health team, we will ensure that we support you to continuously strive be the best person that you can be every day.

Monash Health also believes that you can only be your best in a supportive workplace environment, and has made a long term commitment to continuously enhance organizational culture through investing in our leaders.

**Next steps**:
Offers of employment can only be made once all required probity checks have been completed. These include:

- reference checks
- a clear Police Check conducted within the last three months
- a current Victorian Employee Working with Children’s Check (or proof of payment for same)
- proof of immunisation