SESLHD Strategic Change Manager

Employment Type: Permanent Full Time

Position Classification: Health Manager Level 4

Remuneration: $141,974 - $169,151 per annum plus superannuation

Hours Per Week: 38

Requisition ID: REQ614858

Location: Caringbah, Sydney

Applications Close: Sunday, 9 November 2025

To be considered for this position you must be an employee of NSW Health and its Affiliated Health Organisations.

Where you'll be working

The Sutherland Hospital and Community Health Service is located in the Sutherland Shire ('the Shire'), approximately half an hour drive south of Sydney, in the suburb of Caringbah. The Sutherland Hospital was established in 1958 and is a major metropolitan hospital and teaching hospital. The hospital motto, from its inception, is "Endeavour to Serve".

We offer a comprehensive range of inpatient and outpatient healthcare services to the residents of the Sutherland Shire. We have 375 beds and each year we care for more than 50,000 patients in our Emergency Department and around 28,000 patients are admitted to our hospital.

The role

The Strategic Change Manager provides strong leadership and senior management of a team to implement strategic change management projects that will improve the level and quality of health services delivery across SESLHD. The role also provides technical advice and proactive support to sites and services within SESLHD regarding the design, execution and evaluation of change management activities. Working with Change Managers and clinicians, the role will manage the implementation of clinical redesign initiatives. Please note that the role has a District remit and as such may be located at any location across the District.

Benefits:

• Up to 12 allocated days off each year (for full-time employees) in addition to annual leave.
• Salary packaging options that reduce your taxable income and increase your take-home pay Up to $9K for living expenses and $2.6K meal & entertainment & Novated Leasing.
• Discounted gym memberships with a Fitness Passport
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for employees and family members.
• Discounted Private Health Insurance.

Are you ready to join us?

We are excited to learn more about you and your experience. As part of the application process, we invite you to respond to the following targeted questions:

• Can you describe a time when you led a significant change management or business process improvement initiative within a complex and high-demand environment? Outline how you utilised quality improvement, project and/or change management methodologies, together with innovative thinking, to achieve successful outcomes, while balancing competing priorities and maintaining a strong customer focus?
• Tell us about a situation where you led and developed a team through a challenging change or improvement process across a large organisation. How did you coach and influence stakeholders and clinicians, build strategic networks, and use your interpersonal and organisational skills to foster a high-performance, customer-focused culture and deliver measurable results?

Need more information?

1) Click here for the Position Description and SESLHD Expected Standards

2) Find out more about applying for this position

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Reasonable Adjustments

NSW Health recognises everyone is unique, and that you may require some adjustments to ensure you have the best opportunity to apply. If we can make some adjustments to the NSW Health recruitment/interview process, then please email SESLHD-Recruitment- and let us know.

Adjustments may include but are not limited to, physical requirements, interview setups and specific interview availability times where required.

Information for applicants:

• If you have relevant qualifications or experience, please include any supporting documents with your application.

• An eligibility list may be created for future vacancies

• Employment of a temporary visa holder may only occur if no suitable permanent resident or citizen of Australia has been identified for this position following suitable labour market testing.
• Applicants will be assessed against the essential requirements and selection criteria contained within the position description
• Recommended applicants will be reviewed for compliance with NSW Health policy directive Occupational Assessment, Screening and Vaccination against Specific Diseases for all positions prior to offer
• SESLHD is committed to creating a workplace that reflects the diversity of our community. This will help ensure our employees, our patients and their carers, feel supported. We invite candidates of all ages, genders, sexual orientation, cultural background, people with disability, neurodiverse individuals, and Indigenous Australians to apply. We do have an Aboriginal Workforce Team that can also provide support (SESLHD-) and for additional information please visit our Stepping Up Website

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