Coordinator Workforce and Professional Practice

Location: Melbourne | Southern Metropolitan

Job type: Full time

Organisation: Monash Health

**Salary**: Salary not specified

Occupation: Nursing

Reference: 59326

**About Monash Health**

Monash Health is Victoria’s largest public health service. We provide safe, high-quality care to one-quarter of Melbourne’s population, across the entire lifespan, from pre-birth to end-of-life.

Monash Health is an impressive organisation with 40 care locations across south-east Melbourne, including seven hospitals and an extensive network of rehabilitation, aged care, community health and mental health facilities. Each year:

- We provide more than 3.4 million episodes of care to our community,
- More than 276,000 people are admitted to our hospitals,
- Close to 220,000 people receive care at our three emergency departments,
- We respond to more than 67,000 ambulance arrivals,
- We perform more than 48,000 surgical procedures, and
- We deliver more than 10,000 babies.

We are an equal opportunity employer and committed to a fair, non-discriminatory workplace that maximises the talent, potential and contribution of all.

**About the Role**

Monash Health has an exciting opportunity for a committed, organised and motivated individual to work within Monash Health Bureau (MHB) Workforce & Professional Practice Team. This is a key leadership role within the Workforce & Professional Practice team and directly impacts the ability to deliver services across the whole of Monash Health.

The current focus of this role is coordination and management of the Graduate and RUSON/M Programs in Nursing and Midwifery. However, there is the opportunity to work across various portfolios within the Monash Health Bureau Workforce and Professional Practice Team. You will assist the director and deputy director in developing and implementing innovative workforce strategies across the organisation as required operationally and lead a team of Program Managers, Associate Managers and Administration staff.

A key function of this role is to lead recruitment initiatives and processes across the organisation within the Monash Health Bureau Workforce arm. The role will assist the Director and Deputy Director to implement workforce strategies including the provision of workforce analytics and reporting to assist operational decision making.

This role requires highly skilled communicator who will cultivate and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders.

**The position will**:

- Assist the DON & DDON with the implementation of actions arising from Monash Health Nursing and Midwifery Workforce Plan to develop a sustainable, skilled and safe workforce for the future
- Provide leadership and support to ensure successful and ongoing attainment of National Safety and Quality Healthcare Standards Accreditation
- Lead and drive a number of projects and initiatives as delegated, related to workforce and professional practice.
- Respond to changes and trends in workforce planning and support senior management in identifying business challenges and use data analysis to inform advice and influence process changes.
- Model strategic and operational leadership across the organisation within Monash Health governance frameworks
- Coordinate the Graduate & RUSON/M programs across the organisation.

**About You**

To be successful in this role you will have current registration as a registered Nurse/Midwife with NMBA, appropriate tertiary qualifications (Masters level) and possess an enthusiastic commitment to develop and implement innovative workforce strategies that support the Monash Health workforce and strategic direction.

You must be a skilled communicator with excellent change management skills and the ability manage a team, diverse projects and competing priorities to ensure exceptional patient care is maintained across the organistaion.

You possess a broad understanding of healthcare, including current workforce trends and directions and you have the ability to lead the implementation of workforce strategies to ensure Monash Health has the right workforce, in the right place, at the right time, to ensure the provision of high-quality patient outcomes.

**How to Apply**

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.

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);and
- proof of immunisation.

A request to conduct probity checks does not guarantee that an offer of employment will be made.

Under the Victorian Public Health orders, all employees working within the Public Health system must