Health Economist/biostatistician

**Health Economist/Biostatistician - OTPI**
**Agency for Clinical Innovation**
- Join an organisation passionate about delivering improved health care.
- Develop a plan to review the Operating Theatre Productivity Index (OTPI), identifying key milestones, deliverables, and timeframes, validating the concept and methodology of the existing productivity measurement method and propose amendments in collaboration with ACI Health Economics, Data Analytics and Surgery teams.
- Flexible Working Organisation based in state of the art, agile offices in St Leonards.

**We are looking for**
- Ability to liaise and communicate effectively and efficiently with the Data Analytics team and the Preserving and Restoring through Interventions in Surgery and Medicine (PRISM) directorate staff within ACI.
- Managing high level expectations of competing priorities of key partners while maintaining high quality product, including Data Analytics and Economics teams.
- Obtaining engagement and agreement from key partners to maximise acceptance of new initiatives.

**About us**

The Agency for Clinical Innovation (ACI) leads innovation in clinical care across NSW. We do this by bringing clinicians, patients and healthcare managers together to design and implement new ways to deliver healthcare.

**What you will be doing**

A Health Economist /Biostatistician position is funded for 6 months to review and if needed, improve the current operating theatre productivity index (OTPI).

In 2014, the ACI released a guide to the efficient management of operating theatres in NSW hospitals - ACI Operating Theatre Efficiency Guidelines (the ACI Guidelines). The ACI Guidelines identified that there has been an expressed desire for the development of a standardised method of assessing OT productivity. The OTPI was developed in 2015 to assist in measuring productivity for elective surgery in NSW to assist in informing strategic and operation decisions for efficient theatre management. The index was piloted in three hospitals in 2017-18 and it is essential to review/confirm if the concept and methodology remains valid, useful and feasible to the system, given a considerable impact on elective surgery service in NSW during COVID-19.

A copy of the position description can be accessed online.

**Employment details**

**Employment Type**: Full Time - Temporary 6 months up to 30 June depending on starting date
**Position Classification**: Health Manager Level 3
**Remuneration**: $119,348.00 - $136,057.00 per annum (excluding superannuation)
**Hours Per Week**: 38
**Requisition ID**: REQ348880

**How to apply**
- a cover letter detailing your interest and how your skills and experience are relevant to this role, maximum of 3 pages
- an up-to-date resume of no more than five (5) pages which clearly details your skills and experience as relevant to this role.

**Selection Criteria (Full Selection Criteria is in the Position Description)**
- Demonstrated high level analytical skills to manipulate data and undertake complex analyses using multiple data sources; familiarity with R or SAS would be desirable
- Proven ability to develop resourcing strategies and options at both a system wide and health service level
- High level understanding and demonstrated use of NSW Health data and in particular National Weighted Activity Units (NWAU)

**Targeted Questions**
- Provide an example of a project or program where you prepared a written report for an audience with various backgrounds and effectively dealt with various issues driven by multiple and competing stakeholder interests.
- Using an example, describe how you applied your health economics knowledge to undertake economic analysis that was of quantitative and/or qualitative nature that you believe will be relevant to the role.

This position is a temporary position and **requires full working rights in Australia** (e.g. Australian citizenship/ permanent resident). If you currently hold a temporary visa that allows you to live and work in Australia, you may be eligible for employment opportunities in line with the conditions of your visa.

**COVID-19 Vaccination Compliancy**

All NSW Health workers are required to have completed a primary course of a COVID-19 vaccine which has been approved or recognised by the Therapeutics Goods Administration (TGA). Additionally, Category A workers are required to receive a booster dose three months after completing the primary course of COVID-19 vaccinations. New applicants must have completed the vaccination course prior to commencement with NSW Health, or provide an approved medical contraindication certificate (IM011 immunisation medical exemption form) certifying the worker cannot have any approved COVID-19 vaccines available in NSW.

Acceptable proof of vaccination is the Australian Immunisation Register (AIR) Immunisation History Statement or AIR COVID-19 Digital Certificate. Booster doses are highly recommended for all health care workers who have completed the prim