Operations Manager

Location: North West Region | Bendigo

Job type: Not provided

Organisation: Bendigo Health

**Salary**: Salary not specified

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Reference: 13057

**Work in an environment that offers**:

- An opportunity to work with a leading regional health service
- A strong attitude to teaching and supportive staff
- A new facility with a diverse patient base

**The Position**

**Position Title**: Operations Manager
**Classification**: HS8
**Salary per hour (exc. super)**: As per award
**Hours per fortnight**: 76
**Employment Status**: Fixed Term - Part Time
**Other requirements**: COVID-19 Vaccination

**Role Description**

Reporting to the LMPHU Director, the Operations Manager works collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders to lead the planning and delivery of regional and sub-regional public health operations. The role ensures delivery of high quality, responsive services that meet professional, organisation, legal and ethical standards to improve health and wellbeing equity and outcomes in the Loddon-Mallee region.

The Operations Manager ensures planning, performance, financial, risk and resource management activities and reporting are undertaken in a timely and coordinated manner consistent with Bendigo Health policies and procedures, and in accordance with the funding and policy requirements of the Department of Health.

The role oversees the development and implementation of regional and sub-regional plans and activities, notably including those for prevention, population health improvement and priority community engagement.

The Operations Manager directly supervises sub-regional place-based team managers, Aboriginal Health Lead and Priority Communities Lead roles, administration and project staff.

**Bendigo Health**

Our 700 bed state of the art hospital was built in 2017. We are a leader in regional health care, combining outstanding services with a strong education, training and personal development culture. We have all of the latest technologies allowing our 5000 staff to deliver _Excellent Care to Every Person, Every Time._ Remuneration is in accordance with Victorian Public Health Enterprise Agreements and generous salary packaging arrangements are offered to all staff. Bendigo Health offer:

- Flexible Working Arrangements
- Salary Packaging
- Financial relocation support available for eligible applicants
- Reimbursements for the cost of obtaining any required pre-employment checks (Police Check, WWCC and/or NDIS Worker Screening Check)
- Staff health and wellbeing programs
- Access to recommended immunisations
- Smoke free environment

If successful for a position at Bendigo Health you must provide evidence of your full immunisation record as part of the on boarding process.

**The Team**

The Loddon-Mallee Public Health Unit (LMPHU) works to keep our regional community healthy, safe and well. We use local knowledge, community-based relationships and direct engagement to effectively tailor and deliver public health initiatives and respond to incidents and issues within the Loddon-Mallee region.

First established in 2020 to manage cases and outbreaks of COVID-19, LMPHU now has a wider range of responsibility for the prevention and control of communicable and non-communicable diseases and health threats. LMPHU works in partnership with primary, acute and community health services, state government agencies, local governments and local communities to promote health and wellbeing, and tackle inequalities in health, for all those living in the Loddon-Mallee region.

The LMPHU does not provide urgent medical care or treatment advice.

**Bendigo Region**

Bendigo is one of Victoria’s fastest growing regional cities making it a great city to live and work in. Bendigo provides services for the region’s population of over 300,000 and so the city offers excellent schools, shopping and cultural precincts, sporting facilities and various tertiary facilities. We can offer generous flexible working arrangements - giving you more time to enjoy the fantastic restaurants, beautiful parks, walking trails and wineries within our region.

**Diversity and Inclusion**

Bendigo Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We embrace diversity and social inclusion and encourage people from a diverse cultural background, people with disabilities and or Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander people to apply.