ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY

Bupa’s ADF Health Services are responsible for providing integrated and seamless end-to-end health services such as primary and occupational healthcare, dental, physiotherapy, mental health and psychology services, pharmacy, occupational rehabilitation, and health administration. We also support delivery of pathology, imaging and radiology, vocational rehabilitation, hospital, specialist, allied health, patient transport and other off base services enabled by Bupa systems. We support the delivery of health services to 85,000 Defence Force members and their families across more than 50 locations in Australia.

ABOUT YOU

Please note: You must be an Australian citizen and be able to attain and maintain a baseline security clearance from the Defence security and vetting service.

We’re looking for someone who:

• Has excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Works well with both people and details – this role involves interactions with both clinical and non-clinical team members as well as working with lots of legislative frameworks, nuanced processes and compliance activity - so you’ll need to be great at both
• Has strong management skills including leadership, conflict resolution and an understanding of medical ethics and medico legal issues
• Has a genuine commitment to mentor, lead and grow internal talent and champion a meaningful career pathway for our clinicians

Our Senior Clinician is a civilian senior doctor and a member of the management team within the region. Balancing both policy and administrative responsibilities across the ACT Health Centre, you will be responsible for:

• Providing information, advice, and recommendations on defence health policy
• Provision of occupational health services and preventative health care
• Participating in quality and governance improvement including, giving subject matter expertise advice to clinical incident and complaints management and performance management processes
• Providing workforce advice and support including adequate staffing levels within department and supervision of clinical staff
• Conducting team meetings and staff training activities
• Managing the delivery of services against benchmark standards and other clinical governance Key Performance Indicators

This is an incredible role for clinician with a focus on mentorship, clinical leadership and continuous improvement to join our Health Centre and make a real contribution to the provision of health services to our defence force members.