Senior Area Manager-Newborn Hearing Screening

Work Type: Part-time

Salary: $111,103 - $121,274

Grade: Grade not specified

Occupation: Medicine, nursing and midwifery

Location: Melbourne - CBD and Inner Metro suburbs

Reference: 13724

• Metro & Western Melbourne Location
• Ongoing, part time, job share position
• Excellent employee benefits, including salary packaging
• Must include Wednesday (negotiable)

About the Role:

This position is an ongoing, part time, job share role for a Senior Area Manager to work within one of three clusters with the Victorian Infant Hearing Screening Program. You will be responsible for overseeing the delivery of newborn hearing screening across a regional cluster of Victorian maternity hospitals. You will provide strategic and operational leadership, supervise Area Managers, ensure adherence to national and program standards, and foster a high-performance culture focused on quality improvement and equitable service access.

Classification for this position will be AO71 Health and Allied Services, Managers and Administrative Workers (Victorian Public Sector) (Single Interest Employers) Enterprise Agreement

What you'll achieve:

• Contribute to the early detection of newborn hearing loss, ensuring that infants receive timely diagnosis and intervention.
• Ensure newborn hearing screening activities are family-centred, timely, and uphold the high standards of VIHSP.
• Provide direct leadership and supervision to Area Managers fostering a culture of continuous improvement and excellence.
• Work effectively as part of the VIHSP leadership team to support newborn hearing care.

Your skills and experience

• Excellent communication skills and professional demeanour with families, stakeholders and other team members.
• Ability to support and lead others towards accomplishing goals and tasks.
• Ability to prioritise workload and manage competing demands in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent computer and data management skills
• Experience or ability to work in a hospital environment.
• Experience or comfort working with newborns.

If this sounds like you, click here to view the position description.

About the Department

The Victorian Infant Hearing Screening Program (VIHSP) is dedicated to early detection of hearing loss in newborns across Victoria, ensuring timely intervention and support for affected families. Operating within the Centre for Community Child Health, the program works closely with hospitals and healthcare professionals to deliver high-quality hearing screening services, contributing to the overall health and development of infants.

What we offer:

• Salary Packaging – Increase your take home pay
• Employee Assistance Program

Other requirements:

• Flexibility to work at multiple hospital sites in a region as needed.
• Willingness to participate in ongoing training and professional development.
• Commitment to adhering to the program's procedures and ensuring safety and accuracy in hearing screening.
• Current National Criminal Record Check, or willing to obtain.
• Valid Working with Children Check.
• A current Victorian Drivers Licence, as the ability to travel between maternity hospitals is essential.
• Compliance with RCHs "Staff Immunisation - Prevention of Vaccine Preventable Diseases" procedure.

Application process

To apply, you will need a resume and a tailored cover letter outlining your skills, experience, and suitability for the position in line with the requirements of the position description.

Shortlisting for this position will commence immediately, we encourage you to apply promptly

For more information about this position please contact Dr Melinda Barker, Director, Victorian Infant Hearing Screening Program, during business hours) Monday to Friday.

Why work at the RCH?

RCH enjoys high employee engagement and is committed to staff safety and a positive culture through enactment of our Compact. We offer the opportunity to work in world-class facilities, surrounded by Royal Park and only a short tram trip from the heart of Melbourne city.

We also offer discounted staff parking, salary packaging, and an award-winning health and wellbeing program.

The RCH is committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people from culturally and/or linguistically diverse background, all members of the LGBTQI community and people with disability.

It is a requirement of your employment that you be vaccinated against Influenza annually for Category A and B roles, in compliance with any public health orders in place at the relevant time, unless you have a medical exception in line with those public health orders, which has been accepted by The Royal Children's Hospital. Applicants will be required to provide their Australian Government Immunisation History Statement, it is a requirement of the RCH to collect, record and hold vaccination information.

It is also a requirement of your employment that you comply with any direction given by The Royal Children's Hospital that you be vaccinated against, or prove immunity to, any other disease, unless you have a relevant exemption

Are you ready to join our team?

Apply online by clicking on the "Apply" button

Applications close 20 September 2025

Applications close Saturday 20 September 2025 at 11.59pm

Posted

10 September 2025