Operations Readiness Lead - New Footscray Hospital
Western Health opens its new PPP New Footscray Hospital in late 2025. Over the coming year, will be a considerable amount of planning for the operating critical services in the new facility.
Health Support Services is responsible for many of those critical services, including desk and space management, car park staffing allocations, food supply and integration from the Central Production Kitchen (CPK) in Altona, clerical services, switchboard and biomedical equipment services.
The Operations Readiness Lead is integral to preparing staff, processes and system updates to be ready for the move to the new site. This includes developing approaches in change and communication, procedure updates, and critical decision making in making NFH a leading operation from Day 1.
Integrate a Western Health approach to common health service challenges, in a manner that deliver NFH Health Support Services with those challenges solved, for patients, visitors, and staff, including:
- Desk and Office Utilisation
- Car Park and Site Transport
- CPK and Food Service integration
- HSS-retained Staff operation and transition, e.g.
- Ward Clerk
- Switchboard
- BME and CEL
Contact Person: Stuart Smith
Title: Divisonal Director, Health Support Services
Phone: 03 8345 6666
Email: stuart.smith@wh.org.au
Applications close at 11:59pm on 8 October 2024.
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