Allied Health Workforce Officer

Location: Melbourne | Southern Metropolitan

Job type: Part time

Organisation: Monash Health

**Salary**: Salary not specified

Occupation: Education and Training, Health and Allied Health, Family Violence Workers, Medical

Reference: 60968

**About Monash Health**

**About the Allied Health Workforce, Innovation, Strategy, Education and Research (WISER) unit at Monash Health**

There are over 1500 Allied Health employees across Monash Health. The Allied Health WISER unit provides support and governance for allied health in regard to student and staff education delivery and best practice, credentialing and scope of practice, allied health assistance advice, informatics and projects as delegated by the Chief Allied Health Officer at Monash Health.

Monash Health is an impressive organisation of seven public hospitals, 21 community health sites, five aged care facilities, university affiliated international research and tertiary education. We provide healthcare for the entire lifespan from pre-birth to palliative care and all stages in between, and we have recently opened the new 230-bed Monash Children's Hospital.

About The Role

The Workforce Officer will assist the Workforce Advisor in the development and implementation of the Allied Health Strategic Workforce Plan. This will include managing projects and programs developed to improve the recruitment and retention of Allied Health clinicians including communications.
- Enhance evidence based practice within Monash Health Allied Health across programs by aligning projects to organisational strategic and priority area
- Work collaboratively to maintain partnerships with internal and external stakeholders
- Be the champion for practice change by supporting clinicians, managers and directors to translate evidence into practice through quality improvement
- Carry out both workforce and informatics priority tasks

**About You**

You have been developing your project management and leadership skills or you are an accomplished project leader. You are ready to think differently to ensure we have the best allied health clinicians at Monash Health. You are also an advocate of Monash Health's Strategic Guiding Principles.

**What You Need**:

- Qualification in an Allied Health discipline
- Current non-limited AHPRA registration if applicable for professional group
- Eligible for membership with the appropriate professional association
- At least seven years of experience as an Allied Health Professional
- Current Victorian Driver's Licence
- Post graduate qualifications in Management, Research, Leadership or Public Health or progressing towards one of these strongly preferred.

**Monash Health employee benefits**:

- Salary packaging
- Onsite subsidised staff parking
- Discounted banking (BankVic)
- Onsite Gym
- Access to professional development courses and seminars

Monash Health recognises the value of equal employment opportunity and is committed to patient safety and promoting fairness, equity and diversity in the workplace. At Monash Health we are relentless in our pursuit of excellence and work to our six guiding principles.

**How to Apply**

Monash Health recognises the value of equal employment opportunity and is committed to patient safety and promoting fairness, equity, and diversity in the workplace. At Monash Health we are relentless in our pursuit of excellence and work to our six guiding principles.

Offers of employment can only be made once all required probity checks have been completed. These include:

- reference checks
- a clear Police Check conducted within the last three months
- a current Victorian Employee Working with Children's Check (or proof of payment for same)
- proof of immunisation

A request to conduct probity checks does not guarantee that an offer of employment will be made.

Under the Victorian Public Health orders, all employees working within the Public Health system must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and Influenza and are required to provide acceptable evidence of their vaccination status. The current orders require evidence of three doses for COVID-19.