Liverpool Redevelopment Project Director - LHAP (Health Mgr Lvl 5) - Temp FT
Employment Type: Temporary Full Time, 38 hours per week until March 2026
Location: Liverpool Hospital
Position Classification: Health Manager Level 5
Remuneration: $3,194.37 - $3,573.26 per week
Requisition ID: REQ557728
Application Close Date: 23/03/2025
Interview Date Range: 26/03/2025 – 02/04/2025
Contact Details: Tooba Akhtar - (02) 8738 8841 | Tooba.akhtar@health.nsw.gov.au
About the Opportunity
The Liverpool Health Academic Precinct ‘LHAP’ Redevelopment Project Director is a key leadership position on the $830million project (due for completion in early 2028). The role provides expert advice on project management, planning, change management, clinical and operational best practices, delivery strategies and solutions, while working in partnership with internal staff, Health Infrastructure, Project Managers (external and internal), and in close collaboration with Liverpool Hospital’s General Manager and Executive Team. This includes coordinating all activities required to ensure the successful project completion, improvements to models of care, the safe provision of patient care through all stages of the project, and ensuring best outcomes and quality are achieved for the Local Health District over full asset life-cycle (within time and cost constraints).
What You'll be Doing
Responsible to the SWSLHD Director Capital Works & Infrastructure. The Liverpool Redevelopment Project Director will assume a leadership role for the redevelopment of Liverpool Hospital by providing expert advice on project planning change management matters, strategies and solutions. They will achieve this through liaising with expert best practice sources within South Western Sydney LHD in partnership with Health Infrastructure and other external Project Managers.
The Liverpool Redevelopment Project Director will work in collaboration with the Liverpool General Manager, Redevelopment Team and Executive Team to lead all aspects of the redevelopment of Liverpool Hospital. This includes coordinating all activities required to ensure the successful project completion, improvements to models of care and the safe provision of patient care through all stages of the project.
Where You'll Be Working
The Hospital provides a health service of international standing, with 23 operating theatres, capacity for 877 beds, diagnostic and imaging services, emergency and trauma care, maternity, paediatric, cancer care, mental health, ambulatory care, allied health and medical and surgical services from birth to aged care.
Liverpool Hospital is currently undergoing a major redevelopment. The $790 million Liverpool Health and Academic Precinct (LHAP) project will provide enhanced facilities and an increased capacity to meet future significant population growth for South Western Sydney.
Liverpool Hospital is a principal referral and teaching Hospital of the UNSW Sydney and the Western Sydney University and also welcome students from over 20 universities and colleges.
Located in the heart of Liverpool City, the hospital is close to public transport, shopping centres and eateries.
How to Apply
To be considered for this position, please ensure you address the below questions as thoroughly as possible. View our application guide for information on how to respond to criteria and improve your application.
- Relevant Tertiary Degree / Qualification and / or extensive experience at a senior management level in delivering health services and leading project teams.
- Demonstrated experience effectively managing, and leading, all aspects of major capital health redevelopments projects (brownfield, greenfield & refurbishments in a live-setting), from planning, procurement, through to delivery and post-delivery completion (including design, functional briefs, models of care, transitional plans & sub-projects/decants, operational commissioning, communications, procurement, and nonclinical risk management plans for occupation, contractor management & disruption minimisation, etc) while continually motivating and coaching/mentoring the project team.
- Highly developed project management, negotiation, consultation / change-management, and interpersonal skills, with a range of stakeholders (clinical and non-clinical, internal and external), and ability to demonstrate objectivity in decision-making within project time and cost constraints, to achieve:
- project milestones and successful defect-free go-lives, and,
- best outcomes for the project, Local Health District, and clinical / non-clinical service deliver pre- and post-handover. - Applicants must possess an Australian C-Class driver's license (including P1 or P2). Those who hold a C class license (P1 or P2 included) from a state other than NSW must obtain a NSW C class (P1 or P2 included) license within three months of appointment. Learner's licenses are not permitted.
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Additional Information
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Health & Fitness
South Western Sydney Local Health District employees receive discounted Gym Membership/Corporate Wellbeing Programs, including Fitness Passport.
Transforming Your Experience
Transforming Your Experience (TYE) is SWSLHDs key strategy to always positively transform your, our patients, our consumers, our staffs and our communities experiences across our organisation and services. Our vision is that our care is always safe, high quality and personalised and all our staff are supported and empowered to achieve their full potential. SWSLHD upholds the CORE Values – Collaboration, Openness, Respect and Empowerment.
To be eligible for permanent appointment to a position in NSW Health, you must have an Australian citizenship or permanent Australian residency.
At South Western Sydney Local Health District we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, where we don’t just accept differences but we honour and support it. Committed to providing a working environment that thrives and values diversity, we encourage people of ⚫️ 🟡 🔴 Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander ⚫️ 🟡 🔴 background, people with a disability and people from the LGBTQI+ community to apply.
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