Job description
Agency Department of Health Work unit Remote Health and Primary Care
Job title Project Lead – Remote Specialist Access Designation Senior Administrative Officer 1
and Care Closer to Home
Job type Full time Duration Fixed for 12 months
Salary $132,408 - $147,919 Location Darwin
Position number 70262025 RTF 350911 Closing 07/07/2026
Contact officer Emma Childs, Director Remote Models of Care on 08 8985 8174 or [email protected]
About the agency http://www.health.nt.gov.au/
Apply online https://jobs.nt.gov.au/Home/JobDetails?rtfId=350911
APPLICATIONS MUST INCLUDE A ONE-PAGE SUMMARY ABOUT YOU, A DETAILED RESUME AND COPIES OF YOUR TERTIARY
QUALIFICATIONS.
Information for applicants – inclusion and diversity and Special Measures recruitment plans
The NTPS values diversity. The NTPS encourages people from all diversity groups to apply for vacancies and accommodates people with
disability by making reasonable workplace adjustments. If you require an adjustment for the recruitment process or job, please discuss
this with the contact officer. For more information about applying for this position and the merit process, go to the OCPE website.
Aboriginal applicants will be granted priority consideration for this vacancy. For more information on Special Measures plans, go to the
OCPE website.
Primary objective
Lead NT Health’s work to improve remote specialist access and care closer to home, helping build a more coordinated, equitable and
needs-based approach across the NT, strengthening support for primary care teams and improving access for people living in remote
communities.
Context statement
This position sits within Remote Health and Primary Care and supports work to improve specialist access and care closer to home. The
role provides project leadership and coordination to help shape a more connected and responsive approach to specialist access across the
NT, with a strong focus on strengthening primary care, supporting remote service delivery, and improving access to care closer to home.
Working across NT Health, Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisations, the NT PHN, Commonwealth partners and regional
services, the position helps build the evidence, relationships and practical pathways needed to support more equitable and needs-based
access to specialist care.
Key duties and responsibilities
1. Provide high level advice, support and leadership on strategic and operational issues related to the planning, design and delivery of
services to improve health services performance and drive the development, resourcing and delivery of specialist outreach and access
reform in alignment with the needs of the population as well as NT Government priorities.
2. Support operational leadership to assess health service needs, consider how current specialist access services match community needs
and undertake future service planning.
3. Undertake reviews of service areas in line with agreed priorities and make recommendations for improving integration, addressing
critical service gaps and improving efficient and effective delivery of specialist access services.
4. Work across NT Health functions to either lead or actively participate in reform development and delivery activities including changes
to service models, models of care and specialist access pathways.
5. Support operational leads to undertake business planning processes including development of business cases, Cabinet and other
funding submissions, and business plans to support specialist outreach and access reform.
6. Support, upskill and engage with service and program areas within the health service to identify and deliver opportunities for service
delivery improvement, including specialist access reform priorities.
7. Follow defined service quality standards, work health and safety policies and procedures relating to the work being undertaken in
order to ensure high quality, safe services and workplaces.
8. Foster a positive workplace culture through exemplary leadership practices, collaborative engagement and role modelling behaviour.
Selection criteria
Essential
1. Strong knowledge of remote health service core business and demonstrated knowledge and understanding of local and national
priorities and directions in health service reform, planning, funding and service delivery, including specialist outreach and access reform.
2. Proven ability to lead health service planning and business development, including specialist outreach and access reform.
3. Proven skills in analytical and conceptual thinking, research and analysis of data, including the ability to evaluate complex health care
problems and recommend solutions and plan strategically to achieve health service objectives in specialist access service delivery.
4. High level project management skills including the ability to plan, implement and evaluate projects.
5. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills including the ability to establish collaborative working relationships with internal and
external stakeholders from a range of cultural and professional backgrounds, exercise appropriate judgement in responding to requests
for information and advice, prepare comprehensive documents on complex issues, influence outcomes and effectively represent the
interests of the health service in a range of forums.
Desirable
1. Tertiary qualifications in a health, business management or a related field.
Further information
Positions may be subject to pre-employment checks such as immunisation requirements, working with children clearance notice and
criminal history checks. A criminal history will not exclude an applicant from this position unless it is a relevant criminal history.
