Project Lead, Specialist Outpatients Clinics

**Project Lead, Specialists Outpatients Clinics**
**7**2 hours per fortnight**

**About Grampians Health**

Grampians Health was established 1 November 2021, bringing together Edenhope and District Memorial Hospital, Stawell Regional Health, Wimmera Health Care Group and Ballarat Health Services to deliver safe, sustainable, healthcare tailored to changing workforce and community needs, for the long term.

This partnership follows years of strong collaboration and close partnerships between the four health services. Together, we will deliver better healthcare, enhance services and advance careers, closer to home, now and into the future.

A career with Grampians Health means you are connected and are part of a team providing quality healthcare to rural and regional communities. Our communities are diverse, as is our workforce, with expert clinical staff from across the world choosing to live and work in our beautiful region.

Grampians Health provides acute, maternity, mental health, allied health, aged care, administration and support services. This means your career will be as diverse and rewarding as you strive to be.

**About the role**

The purpose of the Project Lead, Specialist Outpatients Clinics is to work with key stakeholders to undertake mapping of current outpatient services, including activity, triage data and associated resources. This role will also require the analysis of current processes for outpatient clinics, benchmarking with other public health care providers and the development of governance frameworks and associated documentation for outpatient service provision.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Map outpatient services within Grampians Health, focusing on workforce requirements, room availability and the use of appropriate data to ensure oversight of outpatient clinics and ensure appropriate NWAU and MBS funding allocation
- Development of process pathways for outpatient clinics and recommend governance frameworks for outpatient clinic
- Assist with the determination of the funding requirements for outpatient clinics in line with Grampians Health Strategic Direction and Clinical Service Plan and Department of health policies and guidelines
- Identify gaps that arise from the mapping services, with recommendations for mitigation strategies
- Develop and implement Governance documents for Outpatient Clinics.
- Develop and implement communication strategy for key stakeholders, which will also include use of SharePoint as a central communication depository

**Skills and experience**
- Experience in, and understanding of, specialist outpatients’ clinics or outpatient services
- Highly developed interpersonal skills including the ability to deal with and problem solve successful
- Work effectively and cooperatively with others; establishing and maintaining good working relationships
- Good IT skills including development of spreadsheets and use of excel

**How to apply**

Click **APPLY** or contact Kerri Gordon, Program Director - Ambulatory Care on 0409 341 370 for a confidential discussion.

All employees must be willing and able to wear Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) when required, which at a minimum is a surgical mask. Additional PPE requirements are role-dependent.
- Grampians Health is a child safe organisation, committed to the safety and wellbeing of all children and young people._**Selection Criteria**
- Essential : Can you describe your experience working with short term projects and working to a deadline?
- Essential : Can you describe your experience and knowledge of outpatient clinics within Grampians Health?
- Essential : Can you provide examples of your experience with data collection and writing documents with recommendations from the data analysis?
- Essential : Please explain how you would undertake key stakeholder engagement?