Company Description
Epworth HealthCare is Victoria’s largest not-for-profit private health care group, renowned for excellence in diagnosis, treatment, care and rehabilitation. Epworth is an innovator in Australia’s health system, embracing the latest in evidence-based medicine to pioneer treatments and services for our patients.
Our values and purpose define Epworth's approach and delivery. We pride ourselves on communicating and delivering them in a real and meaningful way. Every Patient Matters.
Job Description
As a dynamic and strategic thinking leader, you will manage the Patient Services teams across our four acute hospitals – Richmond, Freemasons, Eastern and Geelong. You will bring your extensive leadership experience to this new role, to ensure the patient services teams deliver consistent, accurate and timely support to our hospitals.
You will make an impact by:
- Enhancing a collaborative, team oriented, integrated and future focused service delivering on our highest priorities in an efficient and effective way;
- Working closely with Epworth’s Hospital Executive Teams to identify and implement opportunities for the provision of consistent and sustainable patient services across Epworth HealthCare;
- Building productive relationships across Epworth HealthCare to ensure collaboration and delivery of outcomes.
Qualifications
To be successful in this role you will have:
- Extensive operational leadership of a large patient services team including budgetary management
- Leadership experience in a multisite hospital or healthcare setting.
- Demonstrated ability to work in a matrix structure
- Demonstrated knowledge of hospital operations, including patient care and support services.
- Achievement of identified deliverables in multiple major change initiatives.
- Excellent organisational, planning, coordination and analytical capability.
- Strong communication skills - both written and verbal.
- Demonstrated competency in all aspects of financial management.
Desirable
- A degree or diploma in healthcare management, business administration or related field.
- Understanding of health fund contracts
Position Description Inherent Requirements
We will review applications as we receive them.
Additional Information
At Epworth, it’s a community. It’s the sense of belonging and being part of an organisation and a team that works to make sure that every patient matters. In addition to this, you will have access to:
- Epworth’s enhanced Not for Profit status (and not available in the public sector) provides the opportunity for employees to salary package up to $15,900 pre-tax annually, leading to greater take home pay
- The largest educational scholarship program of its kind in Australia
- Ability to purchase up to four additional weeks of leave
- Reduced cost of health services for you and your family at Epworth
- Relocation assistance is available for approved interstate candidates
At Epworth, we care.
We care about our patients and we care about our people. We care about keeping everyone safe. We care about valuing and empowering our people, and growing careers. And we care about giving our people support and flexibility to thrive, and contribute to our communities.
Enquire / Apply for this Position
Sound interesting? To apply, click the I'm Interested button now and attach your CV and cover letter.
For more information, refer to the attached position description or contact Epworth Talent on (03) 9426 0606 or [email protected]
It is a condition of employment with Epworth HealthCare, subject to reasonable exemptions, that you have had an annual Influenza vaccination, where this is required under Epworth policy.
As a child safe organisation, all successful applicants are required to satisfactorily clear a National Police Check (conducted by Epworth) and may be required to hold a valid employee Working with Children Check (provided by you).
At Epworth, we believe inclusion and diversity are essential to our culture and values. We focus on fairness and opportunity for all – across race, ability, ethnicity, gender, age, sexuality, cultures and beliefs – that reflect the communities we work in. At Epworth, we care.
