National Manager - Caring@Home Project

Metro South Health Service; Brisbane; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Princess Alexandra Hospital (PAH) in Brisbane is seeking an accomplished strategic leader to oversee the national Caring@home project, delivering frontline care improvements and ensuring timely, evidence-based end-of-life care at home.

You will provide strategic direction, lead a multidisciplinary team, manage a multi-million-dollar budget and drive workstreams across advocacy, education, communications, resources and research, while building strong partnerships with governments and stakeholders.

Qualifications

• You are an accomplished strategic leader with a passion for improving healthcare outcomes and the ability to bring people together to deliver complex national initiatives.
• Demonstrated senior leadership and experience managing complex projects or programs across multiple stakeholders.
• Strong financial governance, strategic planning and risk management capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic direction and operational leadership for a major national project funded through to June 2030.
• Lead a multidisciplinary team and oversee a multi-million-dollar project budget.
• Drive national workstreams across advocacy, education, communications, resources and research.
• Build strong partnerships with Commonwealth, State and Territory governments and key stakeholders.

Skills

Senior leadership

Stakeholder management

Strategic planning

Financial governance

Job description

This frontline support role provides essential support enabling the development and delivery of frontline services, programs and outcomes.

This frontline support role provides essential support enabling the development and delivery of frontline services, programs and outcomes.

Your new role:

Lead the national caring@home project and drive initiatives that improve access to quality, timely and evidence-based end of life care for people receiving care at home. You will:

• Provide strategic direction and operational leadership for a major national project funded through to June 2030.
• Lead a multidisciplinary team and oversee a multi-million-dollar project budget.
• Drive national workstreams across advocacy, education, communications, resources and research.
• Build strong partnerships with Commonwealth, State and Territory governments and key stakeholders.

About you:

You are an accomplished strategic leader with a passion for improving healthcare outcomes and the ability to bring people together to deliver complex national initiatives. You will have:

• Demonstrated senior leadership and experience managing complex projects or programs across multiple stakeholders.
• Strong financial governance, strategic planning and risk management capabilities.
• Highly developed communication, negotiation and relationship-building skills, with the ability to influence at a national level.
• A collaborative and inclusive leadership style, with a commitment to culturally safe, equitable and high-quality care.

Check out our quick tips and application essentials!

What we can offer you:

• We offer a family-friendly work environment that supports you in making the most of Queensland's laid-back lifestyle.
• We are renowned for teaching and research excellence with strong relations with Queensland's leading tertiary institutions.
• We want to empower you to build a long-term career, with countless opportunities to learn and grow, no matter your role
• You'll have all the benefits of working for Queensland's world-class public health system including generous leave entitlements, attractive salary and remuneration packages, salary packaging and access to relevant professional development allowances and/or leave, study and research assistance, corporate discounts and employee wellness programs.

About us:

The Princess Alexandra Hospital (PAH) is a tertiary health care centre providing care in most major adult specialties. We provide world class health care to Brisbane City's southern suburbs across emergency, medical, mental health and surgical services, including liver and kidney transplant.

We are nationally recognised for our expertise in trauma management and organ transplants and are one of Australia's leading academic and research health centres. The PAH as a major medical research precinct hosts Australia's most advanced medical research facility, the Translational Research Institute (TRI) as well as a new Clinical Research Facility for the discoveries made at TRI to be trialed in a safe clinical environment.

We're expanding our hospital to make sure everyone gets the care they need. We're adding more beds, modernising our buildings, and improving our spaces to treat kidney and cancer patients with all new services and facilities planned to open by 2027.

INTEGRITY | COMPASSION | ACCOUNTABILITY | RESPECT | ENGAGEMENT | EXCELLENCE

Our values were created by employees for employees to shape our culture and inspire positive interactions in the workplace. Diversity of ideas, skills, traditions, and customs is celebrated as one of our greatest strengths. Having a workforce that reflects and understands the needs and expectations of our community is important to delivering safe, kinder, and more inclusive care.

We recognise our strength comes from the diversity of our people and so we encourage people of all genders, ethnicities, ages, abilities, languages, sexual orientation, and family responsibilities to apply.

We are better together.