Project Officer

**SA Health**
**Job reference**: 865756

**Location**: 5108 - SALISBURY

**Job status**: Long Term Contract

**Eligibility**: Open to Everyone
- **Northern Adelaide Local Health Network - Northern Mental Health - Salisbury**:

- **Salary**: $84,522 - $94,003 p.a.** **- ASO5 - Temporary Full-Time, up to 2 years**

**About Us**:
The Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN) provides care for more than 400,000 people living in the northern metropolitan area of Adelaide and boasts newly redeveloped wards and Emergency and Outpatient Departments, with plans for the addition of more brand-new facilities in the near future. NALHN provides a full range of high-quality medical, surgical, maternity, diagnostic, emergency and support services. NALHN offers a range of primary health care services across the northern metropolitan area of Adelaide, with a focus on providing preventive and health promoting programs in the community, and transition and hospital substitution and avoidance programs targeted at chronic disease and frail aged.

With a workforce of almost 6,500 employees, NALHN works to ensure quality and timely delivery of health care, whilst building a highly skilled, engaged and resilient workforce based on a culture of collaboration, respect, integrity and accountability.

Our core values of respect, integrity and accountability underpin our commitment to provide excellence in care, innovation, creativity, leadership and equity in service provision and health outcomes to the Northern area communities.

At NALHN Everyone Has a Story, Everyone Matters, Everyone Contributes and Everyone Grows.

**Benefits of working at NALHN**:
From salary packaging to flexible working arrangements, a large range of opportunities for movement and career progression, you’ll find there are lots of benefits of working with Northern Adelaide Local Health Network.

Salary packaging is an option for saving money by paying for some of your everyday expenses from your salary before it is taxed.

Across SA Health there are always opportunities for you to develop your skills and career at any of our metropolitan or regional sites.

Relocation assistance may be available for successful applicants from interstate or overseas.

**About You**:
Are you a dedicated, compassionate and enthusiastic Project Officer looking for an opportunity to join a dynamic, growing healthcare network where you will be part of a supportive team delivering high quality care to the community? If so, then this could be the opportunity for you. This position will offer you professional growth opportunities within a supportive and inclusive culture.
- As a Project Officer you will maintain effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders and ensure the effectiveness of responses to issues that are of a highly contentious or politically sensitive nature. In this role you will have the ability to easily build relationships and be responsive and flexible to internal and external stakeholder needs. The role requires flexibility, adaptability, and initiative as well as excellent communication and problem solving skills.

**About the Role**:
An exciting opportunity is presented to work within the Northern Adelaide Local Health Network as a Project Officer within the Northern Mental Health Division.
- The position of Project Officer, Mental Health is a key member of the NALHN Mental Health Division and is accountable for the provision of high-quality implementation of projects and change management initiatives across the Division. In this role you will be responsible for planning, implementing, monitoring, and reviewing mental health service initiatives.

As a Project Officer you will undertake project management, high level analysis, planning and developing recommendations that support the Mental Health Division’s project initiatives, improving self-sufficiency of services.

Key activities will include developing project plans, undertaking high level strategic analysis, contribute to high level strategic policy initiatives and continuous improvements. The position will have a role in developing comprehensive reports, submissions, briefing notes, and correspondence to NALHN Executive Management, Divisional Directors, and other key stakeholders, as required.

This role is responsible for contributing towards the preparation, development and writing of project plans and is responsible for contributing towards the Mental Health Project Team’s priorities and the goals of the Mental Health Division more broadly.

**Check(s)**
- National Police Certificate (NPC) for employment involving unsupervised contact with vulnerable groups required for this position (E.g. aged care employment or work involving vulnerable clients)

**Immunisation Risk for this position is - Category C (mínimal patient contact)**

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