We are seeking a dynamic and collaborative professional to fill the role of Sustainable Rural Healthcare Hub Coordinator. This position offers a unique opportunity to lead and support innovative efforts aimed at strengthening healthcare systems in rural communities.
The coordinator will play a key role in developing and managing a regional healthcare hub focused on improving access, sustainability, and equity in rural health service delivery. This includes facilitating cross-sector partnerships, coordinating resources, supporting local health providers, and guiding community informed strategies that address current challenges and future needs.
This position is ideal for someone with a strong understanding of rural health systems, project management experience, and a passion for advancing equitable, community centred healthcare. The successful candidate will be a connector and problem solver, skilled at bringing people and ideas together to drive lasting impact.
This is a .8 FTE (32 hours per week) position, offering a flexible, meaningful opportunity to contribute to the future of rural health.
The Royal Children's Hospital (RCH) has been providing outstanding care for Victoria's children and their families for over 147 years.
We are the major specialist paediatric hospital in Victoria and our care extends to children from Tasmania, southern New South Wales and other states around Australia and overseas.
With a passionate, highly skilled and committed staff campus wide of over 5,000, we provide a full range of clinical services, tertiary care and health promotion and prevention programs for children and young people.
We are the designated state-wide major trauma centre for paediatrics in Victoria and a Nationally Funded Centre for cardiac and liver transplantation.
When it comes to training and research we partner with the very best. Our campus partners, the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute (MCRI) and The University of Melbourne Department of Paediatrics, along with the RCH Foundation, are on site with the hospital in Parkville. Together, we are committed to improving the health outcomes for children today and in the future.
In 2016–17, more than 85,654 children attended our Emergency Department, 322,291 specialist clinic appointments were held which was almost 70,000 more than the previous year, more than 17,000 surgeries were performed and more than 48,552 children were admitted to our wards.
