Position Details

Reference Number 44162
Position Title Project Officer
Employment Type Fixed Term Full Time
Entity Monash Health
Department South East Public Health Unit
Location Various Facilities
Position Summary

• Administration

SOUTH EAST PUBLIC HEALTH UNIT (SEPHU)
MONASH HEALTH

Project Officer
Fixed Term, 12 months

About SEPHU

The South East Public Health Unit (SEPHU) is a newly established unit working to prevent and respond to the spread of COVID-19 in the south-east suburbs of Melbourne. In the future, the unit will likely play a pivotal role in the broader aspects of public health. The unit is based at Monash Medical Centre, Clayton, but will operate across the south-east of Melbourne.

The objectives of SEPHU are:

• To act locally with speed, agility and authority
• To swiftly identify people with COVID-19 who live and/or work in our catchment
• To rapidly contact and interview people with COVID-19
• To identify and give quarantine advice to their close contacts
• To identify and manage outbreaks in the catchment
• To provide local and appropriate support to people isolating or in quarantine

The key functions of SEPHU are:

• Localise case and outbreak prevention
• Case identification and notification
• Individual case management
• Contact tracing
• Outbreak and incident management
• Case clearance and de-isolation

Monash Health is the lead health service for SEPHU, working with our partner health services, Alfred Health and Peninsula Health. SEPHU also works very closely with the Department of Health and Human Services, and with community organisations to ensure an effective multi-agency response to COVID-19 in our catchment.

As we establish an inclusive unit that embraces diversity and difference, we are looking for enthusiastic team players who would like to join our multidisciplinary unit.

About You:

The Project Officer will have proven successful experience:

• in project management, process redesign;
• change management and stakeholder engagement in a health care setting;
• with the ability to build positive relationships at all levels of an organisation and ability to actively listen to the needs of stakeholders in order to deliver on time, within scope and within budget;
• proven capability to deliver project outcomes; and
• proven experience using various computer software including MS SharePoint, MS Visio and database use.

Monash Health recognises the value of equal employment opportunity and is committed to patient safety and promoting fairness, equity and diversity in the workplace. At Monash Health we are relentless in our pursuit of excellence and work to our six guiding principles.

As part of our selection process, you may be invited by email to participate in an on-camera video interview.

Please apply online through Mercury e-recruit as email applications will not be considered.

Offers of employment can only be made once all mandatory probity checks have been completed. These include:

• reference checks;
• a clear Police Check conducted within the last three months;
• a clear Police Check (Aged Care) conducted within the last three months;
• a current Victorian Employee Working with Children’s Check (or proof of payment for same); and
• proof of immunisation.

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