Group Health Funds Manager Permanent Full Time Malvern location and WFH Cabrini offers: Salary Packaging up to $15,900 tax-free each year..
Group Health Funds Manager Permanent Full Time Malvern location and WFH Cabrini offers:
Salary Packaging up to $15,900 tax-free each year, plus $2650 meal & entertainment card benefits
Hybrid arrangement, with office and remote working available (minimum 3 days in office)
Access to discounted hospital services and other benefits, such as discounted health insurance
Professional development opportunities
Excellent workplace culture in a mission based, values driven organisation
How you will make an impact As the Group Health Funds Manager, you will play an integral role in the management of Cabrini's Health Fund and Compensable contracting negotiations and contract performance. This role will see you promote, maintain and enhance external relationships with funders, including oversight of commercial relations and opportunities that reflect Cabrini's strategic partnership, growth and diversification plans with funders. Your success in this role will see you utilise a collaborative management style and subscribe to innovation, change and best practice as a way of continually ensuring you and your team are recognised as 'best in the industry'. Your days will include;
Leading the Health Fund contract review, development and managing negotiations to continually improve contract performance so that the services are delivered within the framework of the Mission, Values and Vision of Cabrini Health Limited.
Working with internal stakeholders to support operational imperatives and managing expectations including identifying opportunities to prevent revenue leakage or to grow revenue.
Promoting the principles of quality improvement and demonstrating a commitment to continuous advancement in practices that support organisational objectives
Positively contributing to cross-sector discussions including policy development and the identification of efficiencies.
Building and maintaining relationships with Private Health funding organisations and other stakeholders/doctors, including periodic meetings with key PHI personnel and stakeholders outside of negotiation timetables.
Overseeing compliance requirements including the provision of accreditation certificates and various reports as required by Health Fund contracts (e.g. Annual reporting requirements) ensuring submission to an adequate standard and meet contractual timeframes.
Working closely with divisional Health Information Services to facilitate performance improvement measures that drive revenue assurance, accuracy and efficiency.
Maintaining a thorough understanding of relevant industry practice and changes and be able to assess the impact these changes upon Cabrini Health.
Responsibility for the co-ordination of Health Fund audit activities, including liaising with financial personnel and ensuring internal process improvement where required.
About you To be considered for this role, it is essential to have extensive private hospital/health funding experience and hospital service knowledge gained in a senior leadership role relating to large health fund contract negotiations, revenue or hospital management. In addition, you will bring the following:
Appropriate qualifications commensurate with the position with solid experience in the health sector.
Strong exposure and experience in billing and health funding in the private healthcare sector.
Demonstrated leadership and management experience.
Effective influencing and negotiating skills, with an understanding of planning, data requirements, timeframes, and expected outcomes.
Comfortable and confident engaging with senior stakeholders.
Understanding of and commitment to evidence-based practice and quality improvement to support service growth.
Strong professional and commercial understanding of key drivers in private health, as well as the broader healthcare industry challenges and changes.
Strong analytics experience to derive solutions from data; verbal and written communication skills (including public speaking), and report writing.
Well developed computer skills, knowledge of applications e.g. webPAS, MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Cyberquery, other databases.
Commitment to the Cabrini Mission, Values and Vision.
Please ensure you include a cover letter with your application. Due to the Christmas period/office closure, candidates can expect to hear from our team in early January 2025. To view the position description click here Enquiries should be directed to: Cathy Ryan, Group Director Health Funds & Patient Services on 0439 585 112
Does this sound like your new role? Bring your skills and enthusiasm to Cabrini Health and help optimise the patient experience and health outcomes for our community.
Cabrini Health acknowledges the importance of creating a work environment that is welcoming, safe, equitable and inclusive for people of all backgrounds and abilities. Inclusion is core to our mission.
As part of our commitment to Reconciliation and Closing the Gap in employment related outcomes, we encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples.
Working for Cabrini
Cabrini Health is a Catholic, private, for-purpose health service located in Melbourne's southeast. Inspired by the mission and ethic of care of the Cabrini Sisters, providing quality, compassionate care to our community for more than 75 years.
There is something special about Cabrini Health. Our highly skilled staff and specialists incorporate clinical research, innovative models of care and state-of-the-art technology to deliver the best possible care and outcomes for our patients. We demonstrate our mission to serve our community through outreach programs that support asylum seekers, provide healthcare in rural communities and in underdeveloped countries.
Our size, reputation and growth strategy ensure genuine opportunities for our people to learn, grow and realise potential.
Our values: Compassion - Integrity - Courage - Respect
MANDATORY FOR ALL NEW STAFF TO CABRINI
Employment with Cabrini Health will be based on satisfactory background checks such as professional references, National Police Check, vaccinations for annual Influenza and COVID-19 (recommended), plus a Working with Children Check (WWCC) may also be requested. Please click here to apply.
