This role offers a unique chance to apply your expertise in activity based funding to maximise funding opportunities for Children’s Health Queensland. You will lead the delivery of critical financial and performance insights that help shape sustainable, high-value health services for children and young people. Using best practice approaches, you’ll evaluate service delivery and provide timely, strategic advice that supports operational efficiency and productivity across the organisation.

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About the Team

The Activity Based Funding and Performance Analysis team at Children's Health Queensland plays a vital role in supporting the organisation's financial and operational goals. By providing expert analysis, reporting, and strategic advice, the team helps optimise funding, improve service delivery, and enhance efficiency across the health service. Working closely with clinical and executive leaders, the team ensures data-driven decisions support the delivery of high-quality, sustainable care for children and young people

About the Role

In this role you will deliver quality outcomes for children, young people and families (Leader of Self) in accordance with the Children's Health Queensland Leadership Excellence Framework and the Queensland Public Service and the CHQ values. Your contribution will include:

• Provide expert advisory support on activity based funding matters, offering strategic guidance and practical recommendations to leadership and clinical teams to optimise funding, resource use, and service delivery.
• Deliver high-quality analysis of complex healthcare data by interrogating organisational information systems to provide timely operational reports and insights that support strategic, Executive, and Clinical decision-making, with a focus on improving health outcomes for Queensland children.
• Develop productive relationships with stakeholders relevant to Activity Based Funding, providing effective ABF advice including productivity and efficiency performance reviews. Liaise with clinical staff and team members to better understand patient activities and resource utilisation, recommending refinements to improve the accuracy and quality of clinical costing.
• Lead the development and implementation of business intelligence tools, including dashboards and scorecards, that empower teams to actively monitor and manage their ABF drivers, such as casemix variation, supporting informed decision-making and performance improvement.

About Children's Health Queensland Hospital and Health Service (CHQ HHS)

Children's Health Queensland is a recognised leader in paediatric healthcare, teaching and research, delivering a full range of clinical services and training, tertiary and quaternary care and health promotion programs to children and young people from across Queensland and northern New South Wales.   

Our interprofessional workforce of more than 5,000 people deliver responsive, integrated and internationally recognised person-centred care through a network of services and facilities, including the Queensland Children's Hospital, Jacaranda Place, Ellen Barron Family Centre, our Child and Youth Community Health Service, our Child and Youth Mental Health Service, and other statewide services and programs including specialist outreach and telehealth services.

Inclusion and diversity

To encourage inclusive practices in recruitment, we are committed to increasing our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workforce and building inclusive cultures that respect and promote human rights and Workforce Diversity and Inclusion. CHQ is an equal opportunity employer.

Some of the great benefits of working at CHQ HSS

If you're looking for a rewarding career, and you're excited to contribute to the development of Australia's best paediatric health service, come and join the team at CHQ and enjoy a range of benefits including:

• Opportunities for professional growth and development
• Competitive renumeration
• Annual pay increases
• 12.75% employer superannuation contribution
• 17.5% annual leave loading
• Salary packaging
• Employee wellness and assistance program
• Work/life balance, variety, and flexibility

You can find out more about why it's so great to work at CHQ HHS here.

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, Information Pack and Applicant Tool Kit 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.

• Principal Analyst, Activity Based Funding and Performance Analysis - Role Description (PDF, 443KB)
  Role Description
  
  CHQ_Job Applicant information kit_Feb 2023 (PDF, 985KB)
  Information Package for Applicants