Costing Manager (Health Manager Lvl 4) - Perm FT
Employment Type: Permanent Full Time, 38 hours per week
Location: Liverpool Hospital, Eastern Campus
Position Classification: Health Manager Level 4
Remuneration: $141,974.00 - $169,151.00 per annum
Requisition ID: REQ571242
Application Close Date: 18/05/2025
Interview Date Range: 21/05/2025 - 28/05/2025
Contact Details: Shan Chan | [email protected]
About The Opportunity
Are you a strategic leader with expertise in clinical costing and a passion for data-driven healthcare? South Western Sydney Local Health District (SWSLHD) is seeking an experienced professional to lead our Costing Team. In this pivotal role, you will oversee high-quality, timely costing submissions to the NSW Ministry of Health, ensuring data integrity and collaboration across clinical and financial teams. You’ll provide expert analysis of cost performance, deliver evidence-based advice to the Executive, and work closely with Health Informatics to enhance costing methodologies—particularly for complex and high-cost services. Your strong leadership, technical knowledge of activity-based costing, and ability to communicate complex information to a broad audience will be essential. Join us in shaping effective, data-informed healthcare decisions.
What You'll Be Doing
The incumbent of this position must display an excellent understanding of the business of health as reflected in its data, and significant expertise in undertaking and resolving issues in complex data manipulation and analysis, to ensure validity and reliability of submissions and to enable accurate and efficient data processing.
The position provides high level technical support, advice and recommendations to the District Executive and Hospital Managers.
Where You'll Be Working
South Western Sydney Local Health District (SWSLHD) serves one of Australia's most multicultural regions, providing high-quality, patient-centred care across various hospitals and health services. These include Bankstown-Lidcombe, Bowral & District, Camden, Campbelltown, Fairfield, and Liverpool Hospitals, each offering specialised care.
SWSLHD offers a supportive, innovative, and forward-thinking work environment, with numerous opportunities for professional development and career progression. The district's community health services provide comprehensive care, including prevention, early intervention, and ongoing support, while its mental health services offer both inpatient and community-based care.
Working at SWSLHD means being part of a dedicated team committed to improving health outcomes and making a positive impact on the community.
How to Apply
To be considered for this position, please ensure you address the below questions as thoroughly as possible. View our application guide for information on how to respond to criteria and improve your application.
- Tertiary qualifications in Health Information Management, Accounting, Information Technology, Statistical, Analysis or other related field or equivalent experience.
- Demonstrate understanding of the health system, Activity based funding, clinical costing and clinical costing systems
- Describe a time when you identified a significant data quality or costing methodology issue. What steps did you take to resolve it, and how did you work with others to implement improvements or develop bespoke solutions?
- Describe your experience in leading or mentoring a costing team, how have you ensured timely and accurate delivery of complex data submission, what strategies have you used to maintain high performance within your team.
- Explain how you have successfully engaged with both clinical and financial stakeholders to ensure the accuracy and relevance of costing data. How do you present complex costing information to non-technical audiences?
- Applicants must possess an Australian C-Class driver's license (including P1 or P2). Those who hold a C class license (P1 or P2 included) from a state other than NSW must obtain a NSW C class (P1 or P2 included) license within three months of appointment. Learner's licenses are not permitted.
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Additional Information
Salary Packaging
South Western Sydney Local Health District employees are able to enjoy the benefits of salary packing. Visit Smart Salary for more details.
Health & Fitness
South Western Sydney Local Health District employees receive discounted Gym Membership/Corporate Wellbeing Programs, including Fitness Passport.
Transforming Your Experience
Transforming Your Experience (TYE) is SWSLHDs key strategy to always positively transform your, our patients, our consumers, our staffs and our communities experiences across our organisation and services. Our vision is that our care is always safe, high quality and personalised and all our staff are supported and empowered to achieve their full potential. SWSLHD upholds the CORE Values – Collaboration, Openness, Respect and Empowerment.
To be eligible for permanent appointment to a position in NSW Health, you must have an Australian citizenship or permanent Australian residency.
At South Western Sydney Local Health District we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, where we don’t just accept differences but we honour and support it. Committed to providing a working environment that thrives and values diversity, we encourage people of ⚫️ 🟡 🔴 Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander ⚫️ 🟡 🔴 background, people with a disability and people from the LGBTQI+ community to apply.
SWSLHD is committed to driving a child safe culture that upholds children and young people’s rights. We strive to ensure children and young people feel safe, supported and included in their care. Existing staff of SWSLHD and those seeking employment are required to take the safety, welfare and wellbeing of children and young people seriously while taking action to keep them safe from harm and abuse.
