Senior Contracts Performance Officer - MHAOD

Date posted: Monday 17 July 2023
Closing date: Monday 31 July 2023

NQPHN is looking for a Senior Contracts Performance Officer to join the Mental Health and Alcohol and Other Drugs (MHAOD) team in the Cairns, Townsville, or Mackay office.

The role

The Senior Contracts Performance Officer – Mental Health and Alcohol and Other Drugs (MHAOD) has responsibility for the management, administration, and performance of commissioning contracts. This role plays a key part in the Commissioning cycle and requires active collaboration across all Commissioning functions to be successful.

This includes:

• Provide operational support across the Commissioning portfolios to ensure the effective management, administration, and performance of contracts.
• Working in collaboration with other Northern Queensland Primary Health Network (NQPHN) functions in the design, management, monitoring, and evaluation of contracts to ensure services are delivered effectively to improve outcomes and meet local need.

Role-specific

• Adopt a holistic approach to evaluating contract performance by using the Department of Health Commissioning Cycle to guide delivery of health services, with particular consideration for the inputs into contract design when evaluating performance, being needs assessment and service planning and design.
• Provide best practice expertise for management and performance of Commissioning contracts including understanding for contract variation and overarching contracting considerations.
• Effectively manage contracts through building strong relationships with health service providers and other key stakeholders.
• Monitor quarterly reports, clinical dashboards and other indicators of contract performance, and lead contract and governance related meetings and discussions to ensure contract deliverables are met.
• Undertake administrative tasks such as production and distribution of correspondence, reports and/or presentations relating to contract management, administration, and performance.
• As agreed with the Manager, carry contract portfolio area and work with Planning and Design Team colleagues to ensure contracted services continue to develop and improve based on community feedback.
• Collaborate with NQPHN staff from other functional areas, particularly Business Services, System Integration and Innovation to monitor and evaluate contract performance. 
• Support the development of resource materials required for contract management, administration and performance and ensure distribution as appropriate.
• Support the collaboration across all NQPHN teams to ensure the programs delivered are in line with the organisation strategic and operational requirements.
• Support the team in ensuring the agreed performance outcomes for the programs across all commissioning portfolios are delivered, monitored, and reported in line with recommended frameworks and guidelines.
• Support and collaborate within the team to ensure an integrated approach to commissioning.

Other requirements

• Current drivers licence.
• Provide a National Police Check less than three months old.
• Be able to meet the requirements of a Working with Children (Blue Card) Queensland (if required).

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.

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Your application should include:

• cover letter (not exceeding two pages)
• response 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 Monday 31 July 2023 at 5pm.

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