First Nations Health Lead

Date posted: Friday 27 January 2023
Closing date: Friday 10 February 2023

NQPHN is looking for a First Nations Health Lead to join the team in their Cairns, Townsville, or Mackay office.

The role

The First Nations Health Lead has responsibility for supporting NQPHN in strategically advancing First Nations sector engagement and providing culturally appropriate subject matter expertise to NQPHN’s teams.

Fundamental to this role will be building trusted and collaborative relationships and identifying opportunities to partner with Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisations (ACCHOs), First Nations peak bodies, education, Hospital and Health Services, and other key stakeholder bodies.

It also involves supporting the Health Service Commissioning Teams to identify and progress innovative commissioning that provides leading practice First Nations health care.

• Strategically lead an organisational culture of ‘First Nations First’ that promotes:
  • equity for First Nations peoples through improved health access and outcomes
  • work with partners to provide First Nations peoples with increased access to coordinated, quality, and culturally safe care
  • support the community-controlled sector in workforce capacity and capability.
• Support NQPHN to become a leader in innovative First Nations commissioning approaches, in particular for remote communities.
• Advise internal teams on First Nations perspectives regarding sector development, strategic commissioning, innovative service planning and design, procurement approaches, and service performance management.
• Build and maintain strategic relationships with key stakeholder and partner organisations to influence system reform to benefit First Nations peoples.
• Lead the development and implementation of a First Nations engagement strategy.
• Support internal teams to achieve data sharing with the First Nations sector to inform First Nations health needs assessment.
• Support internal teams to develop First Nations Health Activity Work Plans in partnership with internal teams.
• Participate in NQPHN planning, management, and reporting processes, including the development of outcomes measures and evaluation plans for First Nations Health.

 

Key selection criteria

• It is essential that the person who holds this position be an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander person and is therefore a genuine occupational requirement under section 25, 104 and 105 of the Anti-Discrimination Act 1991 (Qld).
• Tertiary qualifications in a health, education, or social services discipline and five years’ experience in a senior role within a medium to large organisation.
• Demonstrated understanding of the health service system, health service design, and delivery in a community environment and strong clinical governance practices.
• Ideally has knowledge of contemporary First Nations health concepts and demonstrated understanding of opportunities and challenges for the primary health sector in the northern Queensland region.
• Demonstrated ability to build effective and productive working relationships with team members, clients, stakeholders, and other industry partners to achieve quality outcomes.
• Highly developed interpersonal, communication, influencing, partnering, negotiation, and conflict resolution skills, particularly in relation to community and stakeholder engagement within the health sector.
• Self-sufficient in the use of information technology – Microsoft Suite (e.g., Word, Excel, PowerPoint).

If you are looking for the opportunity to be part of a passionate and driven team and contribute to achieving our mission of ‘Northern Queenslanders live happier, healthier, longer lives,’ we’d love to hear from you.

NQPHN aims to be an employer of choice for Indigenous Australians, and we encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to apply for this role.

To view the position description, please click here.

Your application should include:

• cover letter responding to the Key Selection Criteria (no more than two pages)
• your resume.

To submit an application for this position, please send your application to recruitment@nqphn.com.au

Applications close Friday 10 February 2023 at 5pm.

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