Allied Health Support - Allied Health Improvement Lead

Full Time, fixed term to June 2027
Generous salary packaging options to reduce your cohealth taxable income
Work for a multidisciplinary team with a diverse range of backgrounds

So why cohealth?
cohealth leads the way in reducing health and social inequity in partnership with people and the communities in which they live. Named Premier's Health Service of the Year (Primary) and the Supporting LGBTIQ+ Health Service at the Victorian Public Healthcare Awards, cohealth's 1000 staff demonstrate courage, leadership, innovation, and agility in their commitment to providing inclusive and culturally safe health services that protect the human rights of all people of all gender identities, sexualities, ages, cultural and linguistic backgrounds, faiths, and abilities.
Our inclusive workplace culture enables staff to bring their whole selves to work, where uniqueness is valued, and people experience a feeling of belonging. Our aim is for everyone to thrive in their role. Please click here to find out more.
About the role
The position of Improvement Lead – Allied Health is an integral leadership position that works in collaboration with staff across cohealth to identify, drive, monitor and evaluate improvement across Allied Health service delivery. This role will work in partnership with key stakeholders to support both local and organisational improvement activities, playing a role in building staff confidence in continuous improvement.
Please refer to the Position Description to know more about the role.
Your duties include:

Lead the development and support of local quality improvement initiatives, ensuring quality improvement is planned and monitored
Create opportunities for quality improvement learnings to be shared across the directorate and wider organisation
Represent cohealth’s Allied Health services in key forums, steering/project committees and governance groups

Our ideal candidate:

Relevant tertiary qualifications in a health-related field (preferable).
Minimum of 3 years’ experience in a quality improvement/management role within a

health care setting.

A qualification or certification in improvement methodology (IHI improvement science,
lean six sigma etc)
Demonstrated experience successfully leading improvement initiatives

What cohealth offers:

Exciting Parental leave benefits

cohealth offers primary carers 14 weeks paid parental leave upon completion of only 6 months of continuous service
Eligible co-workers will continue to receive superannuation on unpaid parental leave as well

Salary packaging to suit you - tax free amount of up to $15,900 p.a (mortgage, rent, or credit cards) and a further $2,650 p.a (meal, entertainment expenses and holiday accommodation) alongside generous reward programs from our salary packaging providers. Find out more on salary packaging here:
https://www.ato.gov.au/Individuals/Jobs-and-employment-types/Working-as-an-employee/Salary-sacrificing-for-employees/

Novated Leasing available
A significantly discounted fitness membership with unlimited access to over 290 facilities for you and your family. To find out more click
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Counselling services for you and your immediate family through our EAP-Access provider, and mindfulness, resilience, and wellbeing programs
We offer inclusion, equality, and opportunity in a workplace where making a difference counts (based on our guiding principles and values)

Application Process
We will be conducting interviews for this role as applications are received.
If you have any questions regarding this role, please contact Robyn Wilmshurst Robyn.Wilmshurst@cohealth.org.au
All appointments are made subject to a satisfactory Nationally Coordinated Criminal History Check (NCCHC), a Working with Children Check (WWCC), complete a Pre-Employment Declaration Form, evidence of legal rights to work in Australia, and evidence of vaccination.
Successful applicants will be required to provide evidence of immunisation assessment including Influenza within 12 weeks of commencement [B]. This is in accordance with the Victorian Minister of Health Mandatory Vaccination Orders and legislated requirement for influenza vaccination.