• Be valued for your leadership and primary health care experience
• Salary packaging, individual professional development
• Package of benefits (e.g. free parking, wellbeing investment and flexibility)

Duties and Responsibilities (for full details, see Position Description)

• provide day-to-day operational direction to the Primary Care Development team by providing effective support, mentoring and professional development opportunities; and applying appropriate recruitment, induction and performance management principles which comply with our policies and procedures.
• lead the development, implementation and evaluation of Primary Care projects including commissioning activities, quality improvement, reform, allied health support, workforce planning and prioritisation, and training, professional development and networking opportunities for general practice staff.
• employ project management methodologies to develop plans, ensure project deliverables are met and outputs, outcomes and processes are recorded, evaluated and reported (e.g. Board reporting, 12-month performance reporting).
• engage with key internal and external stakeholders to identify mutual priorities and good practice to inform team planning.
• represent the organisation on relevant committees, advisory groups, and events on a local, state-wide and national level as they relate to the role and organisational objectives.

About you

• skills, knowledge and experience in successfully leading and developing a high-performing team, including supporting them through change
• experience in the primary health care setting, including a strong understanding of general practice and demonstrated knowledge of contemporary issues for general practice and the primary health care sector
• excellent verbal and written communication skills and interpersonal skills with the ability to motivate, influence and gain commitment
• experience in program development implementation, evaluation/monitoring and reporting
• ability to prepare quality business communication documents, including plans, reports, briefing papers, and general correspondence
• intermediate to advanced skills in the MS Office suite – Word, Outlook, Excel and PowerPoint.

About us

Our vision is for community where good health is available for everyone. We work with others to create and deliver the best possible health and community care system for the people of our region. We strive towards this by listening to the community, reorienting the health system toward care being closer to home and building capacity of providers and partners to meet health needs. We are passionate about living our values each day: collaboration, integrity, diversity, courage, and impact.

Joining us means…

• Great workplace culture with exposure to national programs
• Flexibility can be negotiated depending on business needs, including the potential to work from home up to 3 days per week, flexible hours, accrued days off, and flexible start/finish times
• Generous salary packaging arrangements, including NFP tax-free benefits
• Annual professional development funding
• Modern Lutwyche office base with free undercover parking
• Five weeks' annual leave per annum pro rata
• Social and friendly work environment, great kitchen breakout facilities and close to shops, cafes and transport
• 17.5% leave loading
• Access to Employee Assistance Program for you and your family

Apply to join our team

To apply please -

• Review the full position description.
• Direct any queries about this role to [email protected] using the subject line: Team Leader, Development - Primary Care enquiry via EthicalJobs.
• Upload your current resume and a covering letter (letter maximum 2 pages, (reference ‘EthicalJobs’) that directly addresses how you meet the selection criteria, via the 'Apply Now' button.

Please note, we will be reviewing applications on receipt and therefore reserve the right to close the position listing before the stated deadline.

We are committed to achieving a diverse workforce and strongly encourage applications from people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander heritage, people from culturally diverse backgrounds, people with lived experience of mental illness and people with disabilities.

A position description is attached.