Project Lead - Innovative Chronic and Complex Conditions Pilot

healthAbility; City of Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Salary packaging

Not-for-profit benefits

Job summary

healthAbility in Melbourne seeks a Project Lead to drive delivery of an innovative chronic and complex conditions pilot. You will guide a multidisciplinary team, align services across Box Hill and Eltham, and turn learnings into scalable care pathways that improve outcomes for our community.

The role offers a fixed-term contract to July 2027 with hybrid work arrangements, a competitive salary and not-for-profit salary packaging.

Qualifications

• Experience leading complex health pilots or new service models.
• Strong project delivery and continuous improvement skills.
• Relevant allied health/public health qualification required.

Responsibilities

• Lead a chronic conditions pilot and drive delivery outcomes.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary teams across sites.
• Develop partnerships with health and community services.

Skills

Project leadership

Health program delivery

Stakeholder management

Multidisciplinary team leadership

Data & outcomes reporting

Education

Allied health/public health qualification

Job description

Project Lead - Innovative Chronic and Complex Conditions Pilot

Who are we?
healthAbility, as the name suggests, plays a unique and valuable role in the health system. We work to address the root causes of vulnerability, prevent disease and promote lifelong health outcomes, empowering people in our community to live their best life.

Our role is also supporting people to self-manage long-term health conditions, such as diabetes and mental health challenges, with multidisciplinary teams delivering community-based programs in a comfortable setting. We also support people, including older people and people with disability, to stay living at home longer and to live well in their community.

Our broad range of primary health services, care management and in home and community support services can be tailored to an individual’s needs and with major hubs in Box Hill and Eltham, these services can be delivered locally, in the Eastern and North Eastern suburbs of Melbourne.

Why work with us?
Although our clients are at the heart of what we do and we strive to positively impact our communities and those who need it most, the wellbeing of our employees is just as important.

When joining healthAbility’s supportive, kind, caring and ethical culture, you are welcomed by multi-disciplinary teams passionate about the health and wellbeing of clients and communities, from prevention through to specialist care, and passionate about continually learning and building on their areas of expertise. We embrace this passion and are values driven, offering careers with meaning and environments that are flexible, evolving, creative and connected.

healthability is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.We promote a workplace that actively seeks to include, welcome and value unique contributions of all people. This means we encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, people with disabilities, LGBTIQ+ and from culturally diverse backgrounds to apply for this job, with age being no barrier.

The pilot is underway and the multidisciplinary team is in place. We’re looking for an experienced Project Lead to drive delivery, strengthen integrated ways of working, and turn learning into meaningful outcomes and a clear pathway for the future.

The Opportunity:

• Fixed-term contract to July 2027, with potential for extension
• Competitive salary plus not-for-profit salary packaging
• Hybrid working across our Box Hill and Eltham sites
• Lead an innovative pilot aligned with leading practice and contemporary models of care

What You’ll Bring:

• Experience leading complex health programs, pilots, or new service models
• Strong project delivery and continuous improvement skills
• Experience leading multidisciplinary teams
• The ability to build trusted partnerships across health and community services
• Confidence managing outcomes, data, budgets, risk and executive reporting
• A collaborative, adaptable leadership style that supports clinical teams to test, learn and adapt new models of care
• A relevant qualification in allied health, nursing, health management, public health or a related field

Experience in chronic conditions, integrated care, hybrid delivery, healthcare funding, or evaluation partnerships will be highly regarded.

Join a purpose-driven organisation and help deliver better, more connected care for people living with chronic and complex conditions.