Aged Care Program Lead — Hybrid Role (WA)

WA Primary Health Alliance - WAPHA; Western Australia; Hybrid; AUD 103,000 - 126,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work arrangement

Salary packaging benefits

Employee Assistance Program

Parental leave

Long service leave

Job summary

WA Primary Health Alliance (WAPHA) is seeking a Full-time, max-term (2 years) role to plan, commission and deliver aged care initiatives across Western Australia. The position sits within a dynamic team coordinating with internal and external partners to ensure strategic alignment and effective program delivery.

The role requires tertiary qualifications in health or human services, strong project management, and excellent communication to engage across organisations.

Qualifications

• 1. Tertiary qualifications in health or human services, or equivalent level of relevant expertise.
• 2. Demonstrated project management experience, including planning, implementation, monitoring and risk management, with the ability to work independently and deliver agreed outcomes within required timeframes.
• 3. Advanced written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to engage effectively across organisational levels and with external stakeholders.
• 4. Demonstrated ability to build and maintain stakeholder relationships and influence cross-portfolio teams and delivery partners to achieve shared outcomes.
• 5. Strategic thinking and problem-solving skills, with an understanding of health service delivery in the Western Australian health and social care context.

Responsibilities

• Lead the planning, commissioning, implementation, and coordination of activities with internal and external stakeholders to ensure the considered delivery and monitoring of aged care related projects and activities, consistent with relevant funding guidance.
• Review and build on current related activities with internal stakeholders, considering relevant WAPHA Health Priority Strategies, current commissioned services, regional integration and primary care activities.
• Identify gaps and opportunities to leverage/integrate activities, create a better experience for consumers and clinicians, encourage better use of health resources, and eliminate service duplication.
• At a systems level, work with program governance bodies, peak bodies, service providers and lived experience representatives to design, implement and evaluate identified aged care activities.

Skills

Project management

Communication

Stakeholder engagement

Strategic thinking

Problem solving

Education

Health or human services degree

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

WA Primary Health Alliance (WAPHA) is seeking a Full-time, max-term (2 years) role to plan, commission and deliver aged care initiatives across Western Australia. The position sits within a dynamic team coordinating with internal and external partners to ensure strategic alignment and effective program delivery.

The role requires tertiary qualifications in health or human services, strong project management, and excellent communication to engage across organisations.