Redevelopment Clinical Products Coordinator

About the role
The $655 million Ballarat Base Hospital Redevelopment—the largest infrastructure project in Ballarat’s history—is well underway. This major upgrade will deliver a new multi-level hospital tower with a main entrance off Sturt Street along-with a new emergency department, a new helipad, a state-of-the-art operating theatre suite, expanded intensive care unit, a new women and children’s hub and an additional 100 inpatient and short-stay beds.

Upon completion, the hospital will have the capacity to treat 18,000 more emergency patients and 14,500 additional inpatients each year, as well as deliver capacity for an extra 4,000 surgeries each year.

We are seeking a Redevelopment Clinical Products Advisor to support the Furniture, Fixtures, and Equipment (FFE) activities across procurement, delivery, commissioning, and handover. Working closely with the Victorian Health Building Authority, Stage 3 Contractor (Built) and FFE Consultant (AIM Medical), you will play a key role in ensuring the successful integration of clinical products into this landmark redevelopment.

In this role you will:

• Liaise with internal stakeholders to gather data and review documentation
• Manage the review and endorsement of specifications and tender documents
• Participate in tender evaluations and endorse tender recommendations
• Directly procure select FFE items via Health Share Victoria (HSV)
• Administer contracts including purchase orders, variations and payments
• Review shop drawings, prototypes and samples with internal stakeholders
• Support the development and execution of a logistics plan by AIM Medical
• Directly oversee cleaning and biomedical activities conducted by GH staff
• Coordinate and participate in witness testing, asset tagging and training
• Complete defects inspections and participate in the rectification process
• Review operation and maintenance manuals and as built drawings
• Oversee the auditing of transfer FFE and development of a transfer strategy
• Participate in operational commissioning activities to open the hospital
• Provide monthly reporting of FFE activities with inputs from AIM Medical, including monitoring and reporting on project risks related to FFE
• Manage your responsibilities within the projects budget and time constraints
• Proactively and collaboratively resolve complex issues and effectively negotiate outcomes which support the endorsed GH model of care
• Maintain communications and document control via Aconex and SharePoint
• Ensure that key stakeholders are actively engaged and well informed
• Positively lead stakeholders through this major organisation change

What we are looking for:

• Qualifications in a related discipline e.g. biomedical, nursing and/or project management
• Experience in a similar role procuring, delivering and commissioning FFE in a healthcare setting, ideally within a large and complex acute hospital
• Technical skills, including the ability to read architectural and service documentation
• Strong knowledge of contemporary healthcare systems as they relate to FFE
• Awareness of clinical products with the ability to research and evaluate them
• Excellent interpersonal, stakeholder management and presentation skills
• A driven individual with the ability to work collaboratively and autonomously

To see a full copy of the Position Description please click here.

Interested?

Click APPLY or contact Nicole Lancer - Project Director at 0431 602 743 if you wish to have a confidential discussion about the role prior to applying.

This is a unique opportunity to be part of a transformative project that will shape the future of healthcare in Ballarat. If you’re passionate about healthcare innovation and project management, we’d love to hear from you

We're actively seeking candidates for this role and will review applications as they are submitted. Applications will close when the position is filled.

About Grampians Health
Grampians Health provides healthcare to a large region at our campuses based in Ballarat, Dimboola, Edenhope, Horsham and Stawell. Our mission is to deliver sustainable healthcare tailored to evolving community and workforce needs. We strive to enhance services and careers, providing quality healthcare to rural and regional communities. Joining Grampians Health means being part of a diverse team, with a variety of career opportunities in acute, maternity, mental health, allied health, aged care and support services.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible work arrangements and purchase leave opportunities
• Salary packaging for living expenses such as rent/mortgage plus meals, entertainment & holidays
• Access to Staff Fitness program
• Staff rewards and recognition programs

Ballarat Region
Ballarat is the largest centre in Western Victoria and the state’s fastest growing inland city.  Dubbed Australia’s most liveable city in 2020, Ballarat is home to first class education, fine dining and boutique shopping.  Uniquely located within easy access to Melbourne, Geelong, Bendigo and the Western district, Ballarat is blessed with some of Australia’s most significant heritage buildings and natural landscapes. To learn more about Ballarat click here - Visit Ballarat

Diversity and Inclusion
All appointments are subject to a satisfactory police records check, immunisation clearance and Working with Children check and/or NDIS Worker Screening Check.

All employees must be willing and able to wear Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) when required, which at a minimum is a surgical mask. Additional PPE requirements are role-dependent.

Grampians Health is a child safe organisation, committed to the safety and wellbeing of all children and young people. Grampians Health is committed to providing a diverse and inclusive workforce.

We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disability, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, mature age workers and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (or questioning), intersex and asexual LGBTQIA+.