Vascular Laboratory Manager

Victorian Government; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary packaging

Wellbeing program

Onsite childcare

Mentoring and career development

Job summary

Austin Health, based in Melbourne, seeks a Vascular Laboratory Manager to provide strategic and operational leadership for the Vascular Laboratory. You will drive clinical excellence, workforce development, and research, while fostering a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement.

You will lead innovation, workforce planning, and service redesign to enhance patient outcomes, staff experience, and service efficiency across both inpatient and outpatient settings.

Qualifications

• Experience in leading vascular or hospital departments.
• Experience driving service improvement and workforce development.
• Proven ability to manage budgets and resources at a senior level.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic and operational leadership for Austin Health's Vascular Laboratory across inpatient and outpatient settings.
• Lead service innovation and transformation to improve patient outcomes and workforce experience.
• Build and lead a high-performing workforce with wellbeing and inclusion.
• Oversee operational performance, budget stewardship and achievement of service outcomes.

Skills

Strategic leadership

Operational leadership

Workforce development

Quality improvement

Service innovation

Stakeholder engagement

Job description

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• 38 hours per week (+ ADO)

Austin Health is the major provider of tertiary health services, health professional education and research across three campuses in the north-east of Melbourne and statewide. We have a highly engaged, diverse and collaborative workforce that is unified by our goal to help people live healthy and fulfilled lives.

About the Vascular Laboratory

The Vascular Laboratory delivers a broad range of diagnostic investigations including arterial, venous, cerebrovascular and abdominal vascular assessments. The department is committed to clinical excellence, patient-centred care, quality improvement, innovation, education and research, ensuring services align with contemporary best practice and accreditation standards.

The Vascular Laboratory also supports clinical outpatient services for both varicose veins and aortic surveillance.

About the role

As the Vascular Laboratory Manager, you will lead thedepartment, providing strategic, professional and operational leadership across the service. You will drive excellence in clinical practice, workforce development, research, quality improvement and service innovation, while fostering a high-performing culture built on collaboration, wellbeing and continuous improvement.

You will:

• Provide strategic and operational leadership for Austin Health's Vascular Laboratory, ensuring high-quality, contemporary services across inpatient and outpatient settings.
• Lead service innovation and transformation, driving the development of contemporary models of care that improve patient outcomes, workforce experience, access and service efficiency.
• Build and lead a high-performing workforce, fostering a culture of excellence, wellbeing, inclusion, professional growth and succession planning across a dedicated team.
• Oversee operational performance and financial management, ensuring effective workforce planning, resource allocation, budget stewardship and achievement of key service outcomes.

About you

In this leadership role, you will champion wellbeing and workforce sustainability and drive innovation and service redesign.

You’ll also bring with you:

• A track record of driving innovation and service improvement, such as workforce redesign, contemporary models of care and transformational change initiatives.
• Strong strategic and operational management skills, experience in workforce planning, service delivery, financial management and achieving organisational outcomes.
• Exceptional stakeholder engagement and communication skills, with the ability to influence, collaborate and build strong relationships across multidisciplinary teams and external partners.
• A commitment to research, quality and evidence-based practice, with experience leading quality improvement initiatives that enhance patient outcomes and service excellence.

Working at Austin Health means enjoying a strong sense of purpose, engaging in meaningful work every day. Our people also receive a variety of rewarding benefits, including:

• Greater take-home pay through generous salary packaging, for living expenses, meals, and holiday accommodation.
• A suite of wellness initiatives designed to support you, including discounted fitness memberships and special offers on health insurance, and a comprehensive wellbeing program.
• Onsite childcare at Austin Hospital, easy access via public transport and car parking options.
• Mentoring and career development opportunities.

Work with us!

We are committed to cultural safety and health equity for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander People. We celebrate, value, and include people of all backgrounds, genders, identities, cultures, bodies, and abilities. We welcome and support applications from talented people identifying as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander, people with disability, neurodiverse people, LGBTQIA+ and people of all ages and cultures.

All appointments are made subject to a satisfactory National Police Check and if required, a Working With Children Check. Austin Health is a child safe organisation, committed to upholding the rights, safety, and wellbeing of children and young people in line with Child Safe Standards.If you require any reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process, you are welcome to reach out to the hiring manager:Celia Cosgriff, Div Mgr Card Vasc Neurosurg Ortho & Spec Surg at [e-mail]

Applications close Thursday 5 November 2026 at 11.59pm