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Melbourne, VIC, AU

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Provide the strategic leadership to improve population health and wellbeing outcomes and reduce health inequalities through evidence-informed prevention and earlier intervention activity that delivers collective impact on the focus areas of the Victorian Public Health and Wellbeing Plan, achieving population and systems level change.In this role I have.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

• Under an interim structure following machinery of government changes this position was established with a clear brief to lead four regional health protection teams (North, South, East and West) to:
• Integrate regions with the Health Protection Branch (HPB) and bring oversight under a single Director.
• Realign local processes to embed a uniform approach to regional business as usual practices.
• Provide a regional view to work on the Future of Public Health and structures that aim to establish a world class public health system, including models where an expanded Local Public Health Units (LPHU) lead localised.
• Support emergency response for health protection and as Regional Health Coordinator while more enduring structures are established.These changes have endured beyond my tenure, with standard practices and governance.

Box Hill, Victoria, Australia

Leading the East Division Team to protect public health and embed statewide health protection policy through area based collaboration with 19 local governments. Also supporting emergency management as delegate to the Health Coordinator under State Health Emergency Management Arrangements (SHERA).

Box Hill, Victoria, Australia

• Oversee regulatory and enforcement activity including health protection, supported residential services (SRS) and emergency management by monitoring regulated entities, working in partnership with technical experts to.
• Leading planning for emergency health coordination along with quality assurance that key health funded organisation have Emergency Management and Business Continuity plans in place
• Responding to outbreaks and public health emergencies whilst building protective health activities among diverse providers including PHNs, GPs and Local Governments that improve accessibility, effectiveness and.
• Enhancing systems approaches to provide more stable and suitable SRS placements that better meet resident’s needs. Including but not limited to for mental health services, NDIS transition, prevention of exploitation.
• Improve proprietor compliance with risk based approach of the SRS Regulatory Practice Framework and Monitoring and Enforcement Procedures

Melbourne, Australia

Research and write the business case for the Better Client Information initiative, identifying the discrete work necessary to mobilise the department to prepare for reform resulting from the Royal Commission into Family Violence and the government’s reform agenda (including Roadmap to Reform, Integrated Community Services and Risk Assessment Management.

Box Hill, Victoria, Australia

• Managed the annual planning, quality, performance processes for the Southern and Eastern Metropolitan Regions (S&EMR) health offices. This included leading quality processes, completing/monitoring the annual risk.
• Developed and implemented business and quality planning processes resulting in the completion of a complimentary suite of localised area plans that are mutually supportive, align with Victorian government policy and.
• Led fundamental system reform for regional operations that elevated the impact of regional staff and embed work practices more focused on ‘upstream’ preventative population health approaches. This included leading.
• Established the S&EMR Quality team and implemented the Strategic Balanced Score Card to drive regional performance and measure improvement from the perspective of five distinct customer groups.
• Designed and implemented annual satisfaction survey of funded organisations to better understand what our customers value and improve the office’s offerings in ways that are valued by our key stakeholders.

Box Hill North, Victoria, Australia

• Led and project managed all aspects of the $3 million initiate to Close the Gap in Aboriginal life expectancy by working with Aboriginal communities to plan and implement regional activity that responded to localised.
• Embedded Aboriginal cultural competence in regional health, family violence and community service providers resulting in increased cultural safety for Aboriginal patients
• Reduced barriers for Aboriginal people to access health services by improving service quality, creating culturally safe clinical environments. In one service this resulted in a 900% increase of Aboriginal clients and.
• Improved health pathways, reduce onset of chronic conditions, increase health behaviour and undertake strengths based health promotion including tackling smoking and diabetes
• Celebrated the identification, by URBIS consultant group, of the EMR Closing the Health Gap implementation plan 2009 – 13 as Victorian’s ‘best practice’ example of planning with Aboriginal communities in June 2011 and.
• Brokered Commonwealth funded Mental Health Nurses support to students at Worawa Aboriginal College at no cost to the school resulting in increased capacity for the school to support Mental Health needs of students.

Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia

Senior Strategic Development Officer - Regional Performance and Aboriginal Health

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