Lead, Health Facility Planning

Health Infrastructure; St Leonards; On-site; AUD 154,000 - 183,000; Full time

Job summary

Health Infrastructure seeks a Lead, Health Facility Planning to shape healthcare environments across NSW Health capital projects. You will combine clinical, operational and spatial planning expertise to ensure designs support safe, efficient and sustainable patient care.

Collaborate with project teams, NSW Health entities and industry partners to provide authoritative guidance and drive standardisation. This fixed-term full-time role contributes to statewide planning initiatives and design

Qualifications

• Significant experience in health facility planning.
• Strong knowledge of AusHFG (Australasian Health Facility Guidelines).
• Ability to influence planning decisions and balance stakeholder priorities across major capital projects.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert health facility planning advice to align designs with clinical, operational and spatial requirements.
• Navigate complex design challenges and support safe, efficient and sustainable patient care across major capital projects.
• Drive continuous improvement and design standardisation across the NSW Health capital portfolio.
• Contribute to statewide facility planning initiatives including benchmarking and guidance development.
• Influence design quality and consistency through AusHFG competencies and cross‑agency collaboration.

Job description

Employment Type: Temporary Full Time Position Classification: Health Mgr Lvl 4 Remuneration: $153,559 - $182,954 (plus superannuation and leave loading) Hours Per Week: 38 Requisition ID: REQ700571

About the opportunity

As Lead, Health Facility Planning, you will play a key role in shaping healthcare environments across Health Infrastructure's capital program. You will bring together clinical, operational and spatial planning expertise to help ensure facility designs are fit for purpose and support safe, efficient and sustainable patient care. Working collaboratively with project teams, Health Entities, the NSW Ministry of Health and industry partners, you will provide expert facility planning advice, navigate complex design challenges and help drive continuous improvement and design standardisation across major capital projects.

In addition to project-specific advice, you will contribute to statewide facility planning initiatives including design standardisation, benchmarking, lessons learned programs and the ongoing development of planning guidance. Drawing on your expertise in the Australasian Health Facility Guidelines (AusHFG), you will help influence design quality and consistency across the NSW Health capital portfolio.

This is a fixed term full-time opportunity until 24 October 2027. Remuneration will be determined with the successful candidate. Please note that as Health Infrastructure is an organisation of NSW Health, the successful applicant must reside in NSW or be willing to relocate if appointed. This recruitment may be used to appoint to similar future roles (ongoing or temporary), or to create a Talent Pool for roles that may arise over the next 18 months.

About you

Bringing significant experience in health facility planning, you will combine strong clinical, operational and spatial planning expertise with a demonstrated understanding of AusHFG. You will be comfortable providing authoritative advice on complex planning and design issues, influencing key decisions and balancing competing stakeholder priorities across major capital projects. Experience contributing to planning guidance, benchmarking, standardisation initiatives, research, post occupancy evaluation or other quality improvement programs would be highly regarded. Success in this role calls for strong communication and relationship-building skills, combined with the ability to manage multiple activities and deliver high-quality outcomes within firm timeframes. A collaborative approach, sound judgement and a focus on continuous improvement will support your contribution to more consistent, innovative approaches to facility planning and design.

About us

Health Infrastructure delivers sustainable and innovative infrastructure solutions to meet the health care needs of NSW communities now and into the future. We collaborate with government and industry to transform public health facilities across NSW. Outside of health we contribute longer term benefits to NSW communities including the creation of jobs and increased opportunities for local businesses.

About what's important to us

At Health Infrastructure, we are committed to cultivating a workplace culture where diversity, inclusion and flexibility is part of the norm.

Applications close 11:59pm Thursday 5 November 2026