Senior Project Officer

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• Senior Project Officer, Spinal Community Services
• 12-month fixed term part time
• Allied Health Grade 3 or Clinical Nurse Consultant

Austin Health is the major provider of tertiary health services, health professional education and research across three campuses in the north-east of Melbourne and statewide. We have a highly engaged, diverse and collaborative workforce that is unified by our goal to help people live healthy and fulfilled lives.

About Ability at Austin

Ability@Austin is the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) Provider at Austin Health. The service comprises a team of professionals who collaborate to meet the needs of people with complex disabilities. We operate a centralized service to support clinicians and therapists to deliver NDIS Supports through site-based and community settings. The service operates across the Allied Health and Continuing Care Directorates.

Ability@Austin provides NDIS Supports through:

• Art Therapy 
• Home Enteral Nutrition
• Orthotics & Prosthetics
• Spinal Community Services
• Talbot Maker Space & community linking opportunities 
• Community Tracheostomy Management 
• Upper Limb Program 

About the Victorian Spinal Cord Service

The Victorian Spinal Cord Service (VSCS) provides acute, rehabilitation, outpatient and community outreach services for people who sustain traumatic spinal cord injuries in Victoria, Tasmania and southern NSW. The VSCS is one of only six specialist services in Australia and forms part of Victoria's state trauma system. The VSCS provides continuing care from notification of injury; acute care and rehabilitation to community follow up and long-term review.

The Spinal Community Services include Spinal Outpatient Services based at across Austin Towers and Royal Talbot and Spinal Cord Integration Service (SCIS) based at the Royal Talbot Rehabilitation Centre. Spinal Community Services report to Continuing Care Division and sit within the VSCS to provide community-based intervention to clients with a spinal cord injury from both Austin, RCH and Alfred Health, across Victoria. Community based intervention may include working with the client in their own home, with community service providers, in their local community, at their workplace or in a recreation facility or at other health services.

About the role

Key responsibilities of the role

• Utilising project management skills, provide project leadership - delivering on project milestones and KPI's.
• Utilise change management principles to adopt current Ability@Austin workflow across Spinal Community Services work to ensure efficiency, compliance and an optimal Participant experience
• Establish and lead project governance, project planning and project monitoring processes
• Ensure key project challenges and risks are identified, escalated and mitigation strategies are implemented.

About you

You'll thrive if you have:

• Developed clinical experience in a public health service
• Project management skills
• Effective self-management skills which enable you to flourish in a dynamic environment
• Ability to lead change
• A collaborative spirit and a commitment to building strong relationships
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

Our benefits

Working at Austin Health means enjoying a strong sense of purpose, engaging in meaningful work every day. Our people also receive a variety of rewarding benefits, including:

• Greater take-home pay through generous salary packaging, for living expenses, meals, and holiday accommodation.
• A suite of wellness initiatives designed to support you, including discounted fitness memberships and special offers on health insurance, and a comprehensive wellbeing program.
• Onsite childcare at Austin Hospital, easy access via public transport and car parking options.
• Mentoring and career development opportunities.

Work with us!

We are committed to cultural safety and health equity for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander People. We celebrate, value, and include people of all backgrounds, genders, identities, cultures, bodies, and abilities. We welcome and support applications from talented people identifying as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander, people with disability, neurodiverse people, LGBTQIA+ and people of all ages and cultures.

If you feel this role is right for you, we encourage your early application. Even if you don't meet every single requirement, we encourage you to apply. What matters most is your passion, your drive and your willingness to learn and contribute. Applications will be reviewed as they are received, and interviews may take place prior to the closing date. This means we reserve the right to close a job ad prior to the advertised closing date.

All appointments are made subject to a satisfactory National Police Check and if required, a Working With Children Check. Austin Health is a child safe organisation, committed to upholding the rights, safety, and wellbeing of children and young people in line with Child Safe Standards. If you require any reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process, you are welcome to reach out to the hiring manager: Diana Poole, NDIS Services Manager at ***********@austin.org.au.

Interested in finding out more about this opportunity? Read the position description for further details.

Application closing date: Sunday 6 September 2026