Health Services Commissioning Lead – Older Persons Health and Palliative Care

Date posted: Friday 24 February 2023
Closing date: Monday 13 March 2023

NQPHN is looking for a Health Services Commissioning Lead – Older Persons Health and Palliative Care to join the team in their Cairns, Townsville, or Mackay office.

• Exciting opportunity to make a difference to regional health outcomes.
• Initial focus on older persons and palliative care.

The role

The Health Services Commissioning Lead – Older Persons Health and Palliative Care has overarching responsibility for leading and developing a broad range of programs that support the funded healthcare stream to achieve their key performance indicators and contribute to the delivery of NQPHN’s strategic objectives. Programs are aimed at improving access to high quality primary care, supporting the target community to achieve improved health outcomes, and reducing pressures on local tertiary care services. This is achieved through managing the commissioning of primary care services, through all phases of the commissioning cycle.

Commissioning is a strategic, evidence-based approach to planning and purchasing services, based on local priorities and needs. Thus, the role involves leading and developing a team with responsibilities for fostering collaborative relationships with key stakeholders and employing co-design approaches in commissioning work.

The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate:

• Degree qualifications in a health-related discipline and five years’ experience in a leadership role within the health, community, or aged care sector.
• Demonstrated understanding of the health challenges of older persons and the opportunities and challenges for the palliative care sector in the North Queensland region. 
• Demonstrated understanding of health commissioning processes, strategic health service design and delivery in a community environment, and strong clinical governance practices.
• Demonstrated project management experience, systems thinking, and a high-level ability to conduct cohesive networking and stakeholder engagement with the health sector across the NQPHN region.
• Demonstrated experience in leading, developing, and contributing to a multi-disciplinary and multifaceted team across geographical locations.
• Demonstrated interpersonal, communication (oral and written), and conflict and negotiation skills.
• Demonstrated ability to work with diverse communities, including Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples and Australian South Sea Islanders peoples in our region.

About you

Energised by a fast-paced environment, you will be comfortable working in a dynamic and maturing organisation. You are passionate about building relationships and making a difference to health outcomes for North Queensland communities. You are a leader that will genuinely live the NQPHN values and thrive on the opportunity to develop and empower your team.

If this sounds like you and you are looking for an opportunity to be part of a passionate and driven team and contribute to achieving our mission of ‘Northern Queenslanders live happier, healthier, longer lives,’ we’d love to hear from you.

Benefits

• Ongoing training and development opportunities on offer.
• Annual leave loading of 17.5%.
• Opportunity of flexible work arrangements.
• Employee Assistance Program (also available for immediate family members).
• Generous salary sacrifice benefits.

NQPHN aims to be an employer of choice for Indigenous Australians, and we encourage Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people to apply for this role.

To view the position description, please click here.

Your application should include:

• cover letter including response to the key selection criteria (no more than two pages)
• your resume
• your salary expectations.

To submit an application for this position, please send your application to recruitment@nqphn.com.au

Applications close Monday 13 March 2023 at 8am.

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