Manager Workforce Systems and Transactions

Employment Type: Temporary Full Time Until December 2027

Position Classification: Health Manager Level 3

Remuneration: $137,525.00 – $156,231.00 Per annum + Salary Packaging

Hours Per Week: 38

Requisition ID: REQ702572

• Location: Waratah Campus, with location negotiable within the Hunter New England District
• Applications Close: Sunday, 1st November 2026 at 11:59pm
• Interview Date: Interviews will be held first week of November
• Make a district-wide impact by leading the teams and systems that bring staffing, rosters and budgets together, helping HNELHD services plan and support their workforce with confidence.

About the Opportunity

As Manager, Workforce Systems & Transactions, you’ll lead our Rostering Support and Best Practice, Rural Health Workforce Incentives Scheme, and Staff Establishment and Workforce Support teams. This is a role for someone who enjoys both leading people and working through complex operational challenges. In a busy, high-volume environment, you’ll guide your teams to deliver accurate, timely services and promote best-practice rostering.

Working closely with Finance, People and Culture, Clinical Leaders, Managers and HealthShare NSW, you’ll bring staffing profiles, budgeted FTE, StaffLink establishment and HealthRoster demand into closer alignment. This will help managers understand vacancies, manage workforce expenditure and make informed staffing and recruitment decisions, while supporting progress towards agreed savings targets. Your portfolio also spans rural workforce incentive administration, establishment controls, employment compliance and audit responses.

By strengthening accountability and improving how these services work, you’ll support accurate workforce information, payroll inputs and reliable services across the district.

About the Role

You’ll bring experience leading a workforce, rostering, payroll, finance or transactional service, along with an understanding of workforce governance, financial controls, compliance and audit requirements. Making sense of workforce and financial information comes naturally. You can connect staffing, establishment, budget and roster data, identify what needs attention and turn your analysis into clear advice and practical improvements.

A sound understanding of legislation, awards, policies and industrial requirements will help you guide managers through the operational detail. Clear communication, sound business judgement and a collaborative approach will help you build trusted relationships, advise senior stakeholders, negotiate priorities and influence managers to meet approval, rostering, payroll and audit requirements. You will bring structure and follow-through to your work, keeping projects and reports on track and within agreed timeframes.

About You

We’re looking for a leader who takes the time to understand their people and the work they do. Your leadership will help create a culture where staff feel trusted and supported to raise concerns, share ideas and take ownership. Through clear direction, thoughtful coaching and development, you’ll build capability, confidence and accountability across the teams. By bringing teams and stakeholders together, you’ll strengthen rostering practice and workforce governance.

With a strong service focus and the confidence to challenge processes, you’ll lead practical improvements to the everyday services our staff and managers rely on. If you’re a collaborative leader who enjoys making essential workforce services more reliable and effective across a large health district, we’d welcome your application.

Essential Requirements

Hold a current driver's licence, with the ability and willingness to travel throughout HNELHD as required from time to time.

The Benefits

• At Hunter New England Health enjoy a career where you're challenged by interesting work and surrounded by spectacular locations. Join the team enriching health in millions of ways every day:
• 😊Monthly Accrued Day off
• 🌿 Sustainable Healthcare: Together towards zero
• 🛍️ Proximity to shopping and other services
• 🌴 4 weeks annual leave (pro-rata for part-time employees)
• 👶 Paid parental leave (for eligible employees) - giving you the opportunity for true Worklife balance
• 💸Salary packaging options - up to $11,600 plus novated leasing
• 🏋️Fitness Passportfor health and well-being - discounted gym options for you and your family
• ⭐ Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for staff and family members
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For role related queries or questions contact Alice Hoffman on [email protected] or 0438 016 212

Additional Information

At Hunter New England Local Health District, we are an inclusive employer dedicated to fostering a diverse, inclusive, and welcoming workplace.Our commitment to a workforce that reflects thecommunity we care for is essential for delivering the highest quality healthcare to our community. We encourage people with diverse lived experiences to apply. If yourequireany accommodations or adjustments to the recruitmentprocess,please let us know when you apply or at any stage of the process. We will work with you to meet your needs and create the best possible experience. Please [email protected] confidential support.

To be eligible for permanent employment in this position you must be an Australian Citizen, or a permanent resident of Australia, or a New Zealand citizen with a current New Zealand Passport. Employment of a temporary visa holder may only occur if no suitable local candidate isidentifiedfor the position; in this instance, you may only be offered employment in line with the conditions and expiry date of your visa.

We are unable to accommodatevisasponsorship for applicants requiring avisafor this position.

✅ An eligibility list will be created for future temporary full-time and part-time vacancies.

Information for Applicants

Applicants will be assessed against the essential requirements and selection criteria contained within the position description (link below). Forassistanceaddressing selection criteria visit:https://bit.ly/3vL5fq2

Stepping Up Website is a resource designed to help indigenous job applicants apply for positions in NSW Health. For more information, please visit:https://bit.ly/HNEHealthSteppingUp

This is a Category B position.Recommended applicants will be reviewed for compliance with NSW Health policy directivePD2024_015: Occupational Assessment, Screening and Vaccination against Specified Infectious Diseasesfor Category B positions prior to offer. All new employees must agree tocomply withthe requirements outlined in the policy.

Salary Packaging: is beneficial to most Hunter New England Health employees and may increase your take-home pay! Salarypackagea range of personal expenses including novated motor vehicle leases, relocation expenses, and HECS/HELP debt. Find out more by contactingSalaryPackagingPLUS!vianswhealth@salarypackagingplus.com.auor 1300 40 25 23.

Hunter New England Health employees may be eligible for a range ofbenefitssuch asallocateddays off (ADO) forfull timeemployees, long service leave, paidmaternity leave, and salary packagingoptions including meal expenses.

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