• Employment Type: Temporary Part Time (until 12/10/2025)
• Position Classification: Health Manager Level 3
• Location: Station St Office
• Remuneration: $64.12 - $72.84 per hour
• Hours Per Week: 16
• Requisition ID: REQ568758

With CORE Values of Collaboration, Openness, Respect and Empowerment, working with us will ensure your professional life is provided every opportunity to succeed and develop in your chosen career role.

About Us

Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District (NBMLHD) is a wonderful place to expand your career and grow your skills and knowledge. As a recognised leader in the healthcare industry, we provide a range of public health services to the Nepean, Blue Mountains, and Lithgow Region.

An exciting opportunity is now available for a Senior Planner/Planning Project Manager to join the District Planning Executive team, located at our Station St Office in Penrith. This is a temporary part time role until October 2025.

Your role as Senior Health Planner/Planning Project Manager will be responsible for leading and delivering a number of projects related to strategic, business and health service development.

You will fulfil the accountabilities of this role in accordance with NSW Health's core values of Collaboration, Openness, Respect and Empowerment and NBMLHD's SAFER values (Safety, Agility and responsiveness, Fairness and equity, Excellence, Resource effectiveness).

As part of this role, you will autonomously lead a number of health service, business and strategic planning initiatives across all aspects of the project management cycle, ensuring projects are effectively and collaboratively planned with clear deliverables and timeframes.

If you are looking to take the next step in your career, then we encourage you to apply today!

Benefits available to eligible NBMLHD employees

• Opportunity for extra tax savings through Salary Packaging
• Novated Leasing
• Great education opportunities through Education Training Service which offers over 110 courses each year
• Access to our Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for staff and family members
• Fitness Passport

NBMLHD is committed to achieving a diverse workforce and is an Equal Opportunity Employer and actively encourages diversity and inclusion within our workforce. We encourage and welcome applications from people of diverse backgrounds including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders; people living with disability; people from a Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) background; people who identify as LGBTQI+, people with a lived experience of mental health concerns and people of mature age.

NBMLHD is committed to implementing the child safe standards. For more information, please click here Child Safe Standards.

Selection Criteria:

1. Relevant tertiary qualifications and/or equivalent industry experience in health service management, project management, business management or health related discipline.
2. Demonstrated experience in successfully and autonomously leading strategic and/or business and/or service planning projects, preferably in a health planning environment.
3. Ability to effectively engage and work collaboratively with a wide range of stakeholders, internally and externally, across varying disciplines and levels (including senior management, clinicians, primary care, non-government organisations, community groups and community members), to achieve project goals and drive required change.
4. Superior written communication skills, including experience in the preparation of complex project documentation, plans, briefing materials and reports.
5. Demonstrated high level understanding of the complex NSW Health planning environment and the ability to effectively operate and deliver in such an environment.
6. Demonstrated problem solving, conceptual thinking and analytical skills.
7. Expertise in (or ability to acquire expertise in) extracting and analysing relevant planning data including but not limited to Ministry of Health activity projections, population projections, demographic data and service activity data.
8. Demonstrated experience in a healthcare or related setting.

Need more information?

• Click here for the Position Description
• For role related queries or questions contact Thea Thomas on [email protected].