Senior Planner/ Planning Project Manager
Employment Type: Temporary Full Time (up to 24/12/2026)
Position Classification: Health Manager Level 3
Location: Station St, Office
Remuneration: $66.69 - $75.76 per hour
Hours Per Week: 38
Requisition ID: REQ661376
Applications Close: 27/05/2026
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 an exceptional environment to advance your career while enhancing your skills and expertise. As a recognised leader in the healthcare industry, we deliver a comprehensive range of public health services across the Nepean, Blue Mountains, and Lithgow Regions.
Nepean Hospital is a teaching hospital that provides tertiary referral services in emergency care, coronary care, diagnostics, gynaecology, paediatric, neonatal intensive care/ICU, maternity, mental health, rehabilitation, and surgery. The Nepean Campus has recently experienced tremendous growth and aims to support communities within and outside of Sydney’s western suburbs, providing world-class clinical facilities, services, and care.
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. 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.
The Senior Planner/Planning Project Manager at Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District leads moderate-complexity health service planning and strategic projects across the full project management lifecycle, ensuring initiatives are collaboratively scoped, delivered on time, and aligned with District and NSW Ministry of Health priorities. The role provides professional leadership to the Senior Data Analyst and applies innovative, evidence-based planning methodologies to identify service gaps and shape future service models, drawing on population data, epidemiological analysis, emerging technologies, and contemporary models of care.
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
• Accrued Day Off (ADO)
• 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 creating a diverse and inclusive environment which reflects the community we serve. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, LGBTIQA+, Cultural and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) people, neurodiverse individuals, and people with disabilities to apply.
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What you will bring to the role
- Relevant tertiary qualifications and/or equivalent industry experience in health service management, project management, business management or health related discipline.
- Demonstrated experience in successfully and autonomously leading strategic and/or business and/or service planning projects, preferably in a health planning environment.
- 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.
- Superior written communication skills, including experience in the preparation of complex project documentation, plans, briefing materials and reports.
- Demonstrated high level understanding of the complex NSW Health planning environment and the ability to effectively operate and deliver in such an environment
- 1.Demonstrated problem solving, conceptual thinking and analytical skills.
- 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.
- Demonstrated experience in a healthcare or related setting.
Employment of a temporary visa holder may only occur if no suitable permanent resident or citizen of Australia has been identified and must not exceed the duration or conditions associated with the current visa.
Need more information?
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For role related queries or questions contact Thea Thomas on Thea.Thomas@health.nsw.gov.au
