Employment Type: 12 months fixed term

Hours: 38 hours per week

Location: Hybrid / Werribee Mercy Hospital and Mercy Richmond

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Contact: khuynh@mercy.com.au

Where there’s life, there’s Mercy.

Where there’s care, there’s You.

Through the battles and the breakthroughs, we're there. Where will you be?

For over a century, our incredible teams have provided care for people at every stage of life. Across our aged care homes, hospitals and research facilities, and across numerous cities and towns, we’re on a journey to keep growing our impact for the next hundred years.

As a for-purpose organisation with over 10,000 dedicated, compassionate people, we continue to offer more services and deeper care than ever before. With Mercy, you’ll have the chance to make an impact and gain experience that’s hard to find elsewhere.

At Mercy Health, it’s all about taking what we have and making it better.

To do that, we need you.

Join us at Mercy Health, and help our teams deliver even greater outcomes.

About the opportunity

At Mercy Health, you’ll become part of a proud history built on over 100 years of expertise, skill and care. As the Workforce Lead, you will be a critical project role responsible for the end-to-end workforce planning, recruitment and workforce mobilisation for the Werribee Expansion Project. Sitting within the Transformation & Strategy team and reporting to the Program Director, the role provides central coordination and oversight of all workforce-related activities required to safely and successfully operationalise the expanded services.

The role leads and integrates workforce planning, recruitment delivery, onboarding, orientation, rostering coordination and readiness activities, working in close partnership with the Centralised Recruitment Unit (CRU), Medical Workforce Unit (MWU), People & Culture, and operational leaders.

In addition to the Werribee Expansion, the Workforce Lead is designed to be deployable across other major projects, transformation initiatives and workforce-related programs, providing flexible, expert workforce leadership aligned to Mercy Health’s mission and strategic priorities.

What you’ll bring

It takes a special kind of person to work in healthcare or community services. If you are genuinely interested in helping others, then you’ll find you can build something here and find your place in a team of 10,000 hearts.

To thrive in this role, you will have:

Experience
• Experience in workforce planning, recruitment or workforce mobilisation in a complex organisation (healthcare or large service environments desirable).
• Demonstrated experience leading or coordinating workforce delivery for major projects, expansions or transformations.
• Strong understanding of end-to-end recruitment, onboarding and workforce readiness processes.
• Proven ability to work across multiple stakeholders, teams and disciplines.
• Project management, coordination and organisational skills.
• Strong analytical, reporting and problem-solving capability.
• Ability to operate with ambiguity and adapt to changing project requirements.
• Demonstrated alignment to Mercy Health values and mission.
Competencies
• Strong project management skills
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders
• Displays a strong customer service delivery focus
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver results in a fast-paced environment
• Commitment to the mission and values of Mercy Health and Catholic Health
Mandatory Organisation Competencies
• Comply with all mandatory organisational competencies
• Act professionally and in accordance with the Mercy Health Code of Conduct and the Aged Care Code of Conduct
• Participate in annual performance development review (PDR) process
• Must comply with mandatory vaccination and compliance (e.g. NDIS, Police Check) requirements as directed by State and Territory public health orders

You will also be required to provide evidence of, or in the process of obtaining:

• A current Police Record Check and Working with Children Check.

• Proof of current influenza vaccination and other vaccination status consistent with public health orders.

Ready to help us shape the future of healthcare?

Join us and make a meaningful difference in people’s lives - and your career.

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Please contact us if you would like to find out more or communicate any requirements to ensure we provide you with a fair and equitable interview and selection process.

We acknowledge the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung peoples, traditional Custodians of the Land in which our Head Office is based, on traditional lands of the Kulin Nation and recognise their deep connections to the land, sea, and culture.

We extend this acknowledgment to the many Traditional Lands that we operate across Australia and pay our respects to Elders past and present.

The team at Mercy Health is as wonderfully diverse as the patients, residents, clients and communities we support. We’re proud to be recognised as an Employer of Choice for Gender Equality by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA). Mercy Health strongly encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and people of all ages, sexualities, genders, abilities and cultural backgrounds.