Drive Medical Workforce Excellence – Join Us as a Senior Advisor!

Join our Medical Workforce Services team at Princess Alexandra Hospital to lead workforce initiatives, provide expert HR and payroll advice, and drive continuous improvement in a dynamic healthcare environment. This part-time, fixed-term role offers a chance to make a real impact on medical staff operations across Metro South.

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About your role

As a Senior Medical Workforce Advisor, you will be the expert point of contact for complex workforce and payroll queries within Medical Workforce Services. Your insights will support safe, compliant, and efficient practices for medical staff across Princess Alexandra Hospital and Metro South Addiction and Mental Health Services.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead review and improvement of workflows and administrative processes to boost efficiency and consistency.
• Provide expert advice on HR policies, industrial instruments, and workforce compliance.
• Support fatigue risk management through detailed payroll and rostering analysis.
• Deliver training and support on payroll and rostering systems (e.g., myHR, SAP).

About you

You are a skilled communicator and problem solver with strong knowledge of HR frameworks, payroll systems, and employment legislation. You thrive in a fast-paced environment and are committed to continuous improvement and service excellence.

Skills and Attributes:

• Advanced knowledge or rapid acquisition of payroll systems and employment legislation.
• Proven ability to analyze data and provide actionable workforce solutions.
• Ability to lead process improvements and manage competing priorities.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office and reporting tools.

What we can offer you:

• We are renowned for teaching and research excellence with strong relations with Queensland's leading tertiary institutions.
• We want to empower you to build a long-term career, with countless opportunities to learn and grow, no matter your role
• You'll have all the benefits of working for Queensland's world-class public health system including generous leave entitlements, attractive salary and remuneration packages, salary packaging and access to relevant professional development allowances and/or leave, study and research assistance, corporate discounts and employee wellness programs.

Princess Alexandra Hospital:

The Princess Alexandra Hospital (PAH) is a tertiary health care centre providing care in most major adult specialties. We provide world class health care to Brisbane City's southern suburbs across emergency, medical, mental health and surgical services, including liver and kidney transplant.

We are nationally recognised for our expertise in trauma management and organ transplants and are one of Australia's leading academic and research health centres. The PAH as a major medical research precinct hosts Australia's most advanced medical research facility, the Translational Research Institute (TRI) as well as a new Clinical Research Facility for the discoveries made at TRI to be trialed in a safe clinical environment.

We're expanding our hospital to make sure everyone gets the care they need. We're adding more beds, modernising our buildings, and improving our spaces to treat kidney and cancer patients with all new services and facilities planned to open by 2027.

Princess Alexandra Hospital, a place of countless opportunities to learn and grow your career!

INTEGRITY | COMPASSION | ACCOUNTABILITY | RESPECT | ENGAGEMENT | EXCELLENCE

Our values were created by employees for employees to shape our culture and inspire positive interactions in the workplace. Diversity of ideas, skills, traditions, and customs is celebrated as one of our greatest strengths. Having a workforce that reflects and understands the needs and expectations of our community is important to delivering safe, kinder, and more inclusive care.

We recognise our strength comes from the diversity of our people and so we encourage people of all genders, ethnicities, ages, abilities, languages, sexual orientation, and family responsibilities to apply.

We are Metro South Health:

We are the major public healthcare provider for Brisbane's south side, Logan, Redlands, and the Scenic Rim operating five major hospitals and a range of community, specialty, and state-wide healthcare services.

We are bold, innovative, collaborative, inspiring. We save lives, change lives, and make the world a better place. We are part of and proud of the community we serve.

We are better together.

Further information

We are committed to building inclusive cultures in the Queensland public sector that respect and promote human rights and diversity.

Applicants are encouraged to apply online. Please review the Role Description for more information on application process requirements. Agency referrals will not be accepted for this position.

Documents

Before applying for this vacancy please ensure you read the documents below.

• Application essentials - things you need to know (PDF, 691KB)
  Information Package for Applicants
  
  We are MSH - five reasons why you should join us (PDF, 978KB)
  Information Package for Applicants
  
  MS09656492 Role Description (PDF, 372KB)
  Role Description