Best Experience Clinician
Best Experience Clinician LGBTIQA+
- Location: Sunshine Hospital
- Employment Type: Part-Time (24 hours/week), Ongoing
- Salary: CNC C or AHP Grade 3/4 + Super + Salary Packaging
About the Tole:
Best Experience Clinicians (BECs) are senior nurses or allied health professionals who provide clinical consultation and lead service improvements across the Best Experience Division, including the Disability Liaison Service, Aboriginal Health Unit – Wilim Berrbang, and the new Gender, Sex and Sexuality Liaison Service. This role will contribute specialist LGBTIQA+ expertise to the BEC team.
Key Responsibilities:
As a member of the Best Experience Clinical team, the BEC will:
- Provide expert clinical consultation and advice within their area of specialisation: for this role LGBTIQA+ health needs
- Champion service improvements that enhance the accessibility, safety, and quality of care.
- Collaborate with Best Experience LGBTIQA+, Disability and Neurodiversity Navigators and Wilim Berrbang Aboriginal Health team to ensure coordinated and clinically informed consumer support and referral pathways.
- Build workforce capability through mentoring, education, and evidence-based practice.
- Support initiatives that embed the consumer voice and lived experience across service design and delivery.
The BEC is instrumental in helping Western Health build an organisation-wide culture of inclusion and accessibility, ensuring all consumers experience high-quality, person-centred care throughout their health journey.
About You:
This role will suit someone with lived experience from or a deep understanding of LGBTIQA+ communities; along with awareness of intersectional identities, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander; cultural or racial diversity; and people with disability or neurodivergence.
About Western Health
Western Health is one of the largest healthcare providers in Victoria, caring for a vibrant, diverse and rapidly growing community of one million people in Melbourne’s western suburbs.
With more than 13,000 staff, Western Health delivers 800,000+ occasions of care every year, providing high-quality, person-centred care across every life stage.
We provide a combination of hospital, community-based, at-home and in-reach services to aged, adult and paediatric patients and newborn babies. Specialties include oncology, renal, mental health, women’s health and maternity, chronic diseases, geriatrics and cardiology.
We have remarkable strengths in chronic disease, complex care and developing innovative and sustainable healthcare solutions. Our experience at the coalface of healthcare delivery for some of Australia’s most culturally and socioeconomically diverse and vulnerable populations provides us with unique insights into the most pressing health challenges.
Western Health operates four acute public hospitals: Sunshine Hospital (including Joan Kirner Women’s and Children’s), Footscray Hospital, Williamstown Hospital and Bacchus Marsh Hospital. We also operate Sunbury Community Hospital, Sunshine Mental Health and Wellbeing Centre, Melton Health and Community Services, Bacchus Marsh Community Health Centre, Caroline Springs Community Health Centre and Grant Lodge Residential Aged Care in Bacchus Marsh. Western Health also provides the primary healthcare service at the Dame Phyllis Frost Centre, a women’s prison located in Ravenhall.
Why join us?
Compensation and benefits
- Competitive salary packages aligned with market standards.
- Health and wellbeing programs, including flexible work arrangements.
- Scholarships and grants to support your continuous learning journey.
Learning and development opportunities
- Access the Western Health Learning Academy (WHA) for personalised learning pathways.
- Professional growth programs, including postgraduate studies and clinical education.
- Mentorship and career support.
Community impact and inclusion
- Make a meaningful difference in patients’ lives through compassionate care.
- Join a workforce that champions diversity and inclusion.
- Engage in community wellbeing initiatives and groundbreaking healthcare research.
Organisational culture and environment
- Thrive in a collaborative, compassionate and innovative team environment.
- Be part of a culture that celebrates continuous improvement and excellence in healthcare.
Ready to make an impact?
If you’re passionate about the delivery of Best Care, we’d love to hear from you. Simply click on the “apply” button and follow the prompts.
If you are currently employed at Western Health, please ensure you sign in through the 'Employee Login' via the external Careers Page or access the Careers Page via the intranet before applying.
Closing date: 11:59pm on 9 December 2025.
Enquiries: For further information about this role, contact Rebecca Barbara via Rebecca.Barbara@wh.org.au.
Western Health is an equal opportunity employer committed to attracting and retaining diversity in our workforce. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
Western Health is committed to providing a safe environment for the children and young people who are involved in our services, sites and operations. We follow and abide by all legislative requirements to keep children and young people safe.
All appointments are made subject to a satisfactory Police Record Check, an Immunisation Status Clearance and a Working with Children Check (if applicable).
Western Health does not accept unsolicited resumes/applications from recruitment agencies.
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