Health Consultant

**Nous is a great place to work**

Nous Group is an international management consultancy with over 800 people working across Australia and New Zealand, the UK, Ireland and Canada. We are a values-based organisation that is inspired and determined to improve people's lives in significant ways. Working in unique, cross-disciplinary teams we create innovative and enduring solutions that transform businesses, governments, and communities. We realise a bigger idea of success.

Nous is recognised as Australia's top workplace, ranking first in the 2021 Great Places to Work Awards (Australia). We are proud to have been named Best Management Consulting Firm by the Australian Financial Review in 2017, 2015 and 2013 and a Great Place to Work in 2019, 2017, 2015 and 2013 (Australia).

As a Consultant, you will have the autonomy to focus on development, visibility across Nous leaders, and flexibility you work best. You will find the first year at Nous exciting, intense, and challenging. Nous will provide the support to ensure that you reach your potential, in line with the experience of your colleagues, your professional growth at Nous will far exceed your expectations.

We offer active career support, training and mentor programs. Your growth and skills development won't end at induction, it continues for your time at Nous with a wide range of formal and informal learning opportunities through check-ins, webinars, online learning, supported external opportunities, on-project learning and support.

Our consultants have the opportunity to work across **all these service lines**. You will get the opportunity to be involved in projects that:

- work with Canberra's health services, including to develop and deliver their strategies and clinical services plans and to deliver culture and leadership programs that improve outcomes for their staff and consumers
- design an integrated health and social services system for a region that delivers better outcomes for the community
- evaluate the effectiveness of mental health programs, including those that support youth, those recovering from a suicidal crisis and people in aged care
- work with community health providers to strengthen their organisation through strategy and organisational design
- review care coordination for Indigenous Australians with chronic disease, using data analytics and drawing on consultations with service providers and indigenous clients
- using co-design techniques work with victims and perpetrators of family violence to create a service development plan for a contract centre

**You are**:

- passionate and driven about doing work that matters and creates positive influence, in an environment that values diversity and thrives on creativity
- a collaborator; you bring energy and enthusiasm for collaborating with others throughout the project design and delivery process
- intelligent and academically accomplished - a distinction average or above is essential
- self-directed; you enjoy working in a self-managed environment with lots of autonomy
- enthusiastic and interested in working across our service lines and a variety of sectors

**And the practical experience**:

- a background in health, including in mental health, as a clinician (particularly a clinical psychologist) or working in a health service
- 1-5 years work experience in a professional services environment with a consulting lens to developing solutions to problems
- strong analytical skills and the capacity to interpret qualitative and quantitative data
- the capability to think, articulate and write logically
- strong problem solving ability applied in a structured way

**Finally, the important details...**

Nous is a flexible workplace that offers hybrid working, and consulting opportunities on a full-time or part-time basis.
- Please note if you are successful in the recruitment process, you will be required to undertake background screening prior to your commencement at Nous._