Program Manager

**Reference Number**:1641**Category**:Administration and support**Department**:Strategy, Planning & Program Management**_Are you a current Austin Health employee?_**

**Program Manager, **Service Improvement and Innovation**

**Austin Health**
- **Full time, permanent role**:

- **Heidelberg location with hybrid, flexible working arrangements**:

- **Attractive salary plus salary packaging and super**
- 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 the role**:

- An exciting opportunity for an experienced and highly motivated Program Manager to join Austin Health's Service Improvement and Innovation Team. This role will be instrumental in leading the delivery of key strategic improvement and transformation projects to achieve better outcomes for patients, carers, staff and our community. An integral member of the Service Improvement and Innovation Team and a leader in service improvement and project and change management within Austin Health, this role will work collaboratively with leaders, staff, consumers and other key stakeholders to support the organisation to achieve its purpose of _Helping people live healthy, productive and fulfilled lives_.- A regular day will see you:
- Work collaboratively with leaders to develop, implement, evaluate and integrate sustainable service improvement and transformation, including delivery of Austin Health’s Patient Portal
- Support leaders and frontline staff to achieve significant service improvement and transformation through changes in policy, models of care, systems, processes and practices
- Engage internal and external stakeholders to ensure our service improvement and transformation responds to the needs of our community and our staff

**About you**:

- You will be a highly motivated professional who brings energy and enthusiasm to their work each day. You’ll be an experienced and inspiring leader who can engage, coordinate, and influence a broad range of stakeholders, including senior clinical leaders, to collectively deliver sustainable system change.- You’ll further have:
- Tertiary qualifications in a health or management discipline. A relevant post graduate qualification is desirable
- A proven track record in health system improvement and transformation through large scale and complex project management
- Demonstrated experience in effectively engaging stakeholders, building strategic partnerships and communicating with influence at all levels
- The ability to support and motivate teams to successfully deliver innovative service change
- Demonstrated experience in engaging consumers, carers and staff in meaningful participation and codesign
- Have a passion for making a difference, maintaining the focus on positive outcomes and experience for our consumers, carers, staff, and community

**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
- 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