Ready to expend your clinical impact beyond a traditional role?

Want to expend your Knowledge and specialize in chronic disease conditions?

Come join us!

You have built strong clinical expertise. Now you may be looking for the opportunity to specialize in COPD and Heart Failure chronic disease management, broaden your influence, shape connected care and develop your capability across service coordination, quality improvement and multidisciplinary practice. This Coordinator Complex Care opportunity offers experienced allied health staff a chance to take that next step while continuing to make a direct difference for people with chronic diseases.

You will join the HealthCare to Community Team within Armadale Kalamunda Group, working across hospital and community interfaces to help patients, carers and services navigate complex care more effectively.

This is a Fixed Term Full Time appointment/s for 12 months with the possibility of extension(s) and/or permanency.

WA Health is committed to growing the Aboriginal workforce as a part of WA Health’s Aboriginal Workforce Policy.  As a measure to achieve equality, Section 51 of the Equal Opportunity Act 1984 applies to this position.  Aboriginal people are encouraged to apply. 

About the opportunity

This is a clinically focused coordination role for an experienced allied health professional who wants to extend their practice beyond a single discipline or setting. You will manage a specialist caseload involving people with Heart Failure, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and complex care needs, applying evidence-based interventions in partnership with the multidisciplinary team, the patient and their carer/s.

• Coordinate assessment, care planning and evidence-based interventions for patients with complex needs.
• Build strong links between hospital teams, specialist services, general practitioners and community care providers.
• Provide consultancy and education to medical, nursing and allied health colleagues.
• Contribute to service evaluation, research, quality improvement and change initiatives.
• Support the day-to-day operation and ongoing development of the HealthCare to Community service.
• Strengthen your leadership, systems thinking, negotiation and service-development capability.

Why this role may be the right next step: it provides the scope to retain meaningful clinical practice while expanding into complex care coordination, cross-sector partnerships, service improvement and broader clinical leadership.

Suitability criteria:

In addition to the requirements outlined in the attached Job Description Form, the panel will focus on the following factors most critical to success:

• Advanced and recent clinical experience relevant to Heart Failure, COPD and people with complex needs across the hospital continuum, including knowledge of community-based health services.
• Ability to coordinate person-centred care and work in partnership with patients, carers and multidisciplinary teams.
• Advanced communication, negotiation and influencing skills, with the ability to build cooperative relationships across complex service environments.
• Strong analytical thinking, innovative problem solving and time-management capability.

Eligibility and professional requirements:

A tertiary qualification in Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy, Social Work, Dietetics or Speech Pathology, with eligibility for registration or full membership with the relevant Board or professional association, is essential. Evidence of current registration is required where applicable. A relevant postgraduate qualification, or progress toward one, is desirable.

Area profile:

East Metropolitan Health Service comprises an extensive hospital and health service network delivering tertiary, secondary and specialist healthcare across hospital and community settings. Armadale Health Service is a general hospital providing a range of medical, surgical, mental health, rehabilitation, maternity, paediatric, neonatal, renal and ambulatory care services.

Employee benefits:

Our employees may enjoy a range of benefits, subject to operational requirements:

• Professional development opportunities and study leave/assistance.
• Flexible working and leave arrangements.
• Professional and location-based allowances where applicable.
• 12% employer-contributed superannuation into a fund of your choice.
• Fitness Passport with discounted access to selected gyms, pools and fitness centres.
• Discounted SmartRider travel to work.
• Free parking, subject to site availability and operational arrangements.

How to apply:

Apply online through Jobs WA Health and provide:

• A statement of no more than 2–3 pages addressing the suitability criteria.
• A detailed curriculum vitae summarising your experience and how you meet the position requirements.
• Suitable, contactable referees. It is preferable that one referee is your current supervisor or manager.

Please have your documents ready before starting the online application and allow sufficient time to complete the application questions and upload your attachments.

For further job-related information: Joanna Beasley on 9391 2732 or Joanna.beasley@health.wa.gov.au

Applications close: 25th November 2026 at 4:00 pm. Late or emailed applications will not be considered.Appointment and eligibility conditions:

To be eligible for appointment, applicants must have valid Australian work rights. Permanent appointments may be made to people who hold citizenship, permanent residency or a visa that enables ongoing employment in Australia.

Appointment is subject to criminal record screening, an integrity check, minimum identity-proofing requirements and a pre-employment health assessment. Additional checks may apply where required for the role.

Diversity and inclusion.

EMHS is committed to a workplace culture that values diversity and inclusion. We encourage applications from Aboriginal people, people from culturally diverse backgrounds, people of diverse sexualities and genders, and people with disability. Reasonable adjustments are available to support applicants through the recruitment and selection process.

Similar vacancies.

Whilst this selection process will initially be used to fill the advertised vacancy, applicants found suitable may be considered for other similar vacancies within EMHS and/or the wider WA public sector. This option remains valid for 12 months from the delegate's endorsement of the recruitment decision.

Grow your senior clinical experience. Expand your influence. Help connect complex care across hospital and community settings.