Mackay Hospital and Health Service is dedicated to delivering quality health care across the Mackay, Isaac, and Whitsunday regions.

Join our growing Health Service and be part of a culture built on collaboration, trust, respect, and teamwork.

Whether you’re working in regional, rural, or remote settings, we offer unique opportunities and experiences you won’t find in a metropolitan hospital.

Role details

The Innovation and Redesign team at the Mackay Base Hospital is seeking applications for a Project Facilitator to join their team on a temporary basis.

For information on how to apply and the mandatory requirements for this role, please refer to the attached Role Description.

Your opportunity

• To facilitate health system improvements through fundamental rethinking and redesign of core processes using well proven project and implementation science methodologies.
• Lead innovation and redesign activities/workshops and support ongoing projects by transferring knowledge to the staff at all levels of MHHS.
• To promote the systematic uptake of clinical research findings and other evidence-based practices into routine practice, to improve the quality (effectiveness, reliability, safety, appropriateness, equity, efficiency) of health care at the Mackay HHS.
• To support the promotion, understanding and capability development in project and implementation science methodologies, whilst engaging key clinical and non-clinical stakeholders in order to generate complex systems change within the Mackay HHS.

About the Team

MIRI is an emerging health service-led translational research and innovation centre; a collaboration between Mackay Hospital and Health Service (HHS) and James Cook University (JCU)/ Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine (AITHM).

The core functions of the Institute are:

• leading cutting edge translational research and innovation
• implementing evidence based practice into patient care
• implementing innovations that improve productivity and safety
• supporting clinicians to undertake in research in areas of strategic interest
• leading the Tropical North in Occupational Health and Safety Research
• supporting the development of the Tropical Australian Academic Health Centre

About our Hospital and Health Service

Mackay Hospital and Health Service has 6 hospitals, 2 multi-purpose health services and 4 community health centres that employ more than 3,700 staff. The district covers an area of approximately 90,000km2 and provides services to patients and their families in Bowen, Cannonvale, Clermont, Collinsville, Dysart, Glenden, Mackay, Middlemount, Moranbah, Proserpine and Sarina.

Some of our great benefits on offer

• Competitive wages, salary packaging and leave entitlements
• Flexible working arrangements
• A diverse work culture
• Career development
• Professional development opportunities
• Education opportunities, Study and Research
• Paid parental leave
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Discounted Private Health Insurance
• Fitness Passport