Join us and make a significant impact on emergency preparedness and response in a NSW Health District.

Drive emergency management, disaster preparedness and business continuity across Northern Sydney Local Health District, ensuring our hospitals and services are ready to respond when it matters most.

This role is a job-share arrangement

Employment Type: Permanent Part Time

Position Classification: Health Manager Level 4

Remuneration: $90.92 - $101.70 per hour

Hours Per Week: 19

Requisition ID: REQ695110

This role is a job-share arrangement with the current employee

Who we are: We are a health service that touches thousands of lives across the Northern Sydney Local Health District, together as a team of like-minded people. We are passionate, driven and have the skills and knowledge to care for our patients whilst creating the best services possible. Our teams have meaningful, interesting and rewarding work everyday.

We challenge and nurture each other, sharing our knowledge and experience so that we can deliver better care for everyone. There’s a real sense of belonging here because we value and respect our patients, employees, and teams’ voices. You’ll feel a real privilege being a trusted caregiver in our patients, their families, their carers, and our communities’ lives.

NSLHD is proud of our diverse and inclusive workplaces, a place where health care professionals can thrive and feel they belong. We are committed to ensure that all our people feel respected and participate safely within a work workplace without aggression, sexual harassment, discrimination and racism.

Where you'll be working

Royal North Shore Hosptal, Campus, St Leonards





What you'll be doing The Emergency Management services provide advisory services for the district in responding to major incidents and similar threats to the Northern Sydney communities, including bushfires, explosions, chemical, biological and radiological incidents and civil unrest. The position is central to the planning, coordination, system design, testing, education, response, debrief and improvement of the system.

The Manager, Emergency Management Unit is responsible for developing, implementing, coordinating and overseeing the operations of the District’s Emergency Management and Business Continuity Program in Northern Sydney Local Health District (NSLHD). The Manager, in an advisory capacity, is responsible, with the District’s Health Service Functional Area Coordinator (HSFAC), for the operational integrity and strategic deployment of the Emergency Management planning, response and recovery systems.

The position involves extensive collaboration with external agencies, including NSW State Health State Preparedness and Response Unit, emergency agencies, other Local Health District’s, private health providers and government agencies. This position will also have overall carriage of Business Continuity Management and has a support function for Critical Infrastructure Management for NSLHD.

People of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander background are encouraged to apply.

Candidates will need to meet the following criteria:

1.



Tertiary qualifications in a relevant discipline or equivalent; and extensive experience in disaster medicine and business continuity management.
2. Demonstrated emergency management skills and extensive experience in planning, implementation, reporting and evaluation to ensure high quality deliverables during response and recovery.
3. A thorough knowledge of current health emergency management policy and operational systems at facility, district and state level across the range of disaster planning activities.
4. Describe your experience leading emergency management, disaster preparedness and/or business continuity programs in a complex organisation. Include an example that demonstrates your role in planning, implementation and evaluation of an emergency management initiative or response.
5. Provide an example of how you have applied health emergency management policies, frameworks or operational systems to improve preparedness, response capability or organisational resilience. What was your approach and what outcomes were achieved?

Need more information?
- Click here for the Position Description
- Find out more about applying for this position For role related queries or questions contact Christian Bourne on [email protected] or 02 9462 9943.

This is a NSW Health Category A position which requires immunisation and screening for certain diseases. The full list of requirements are outlined in the NSW Health OASV Policy (Page 11). You will be required to complete the OASV Undertaking/ Declaration Form and TB Assessment Tool during the recruitment process. Please upload this with your application along with any other vaccination evidence that you may have.

The team enriching health in millions of ways every day.

Applications Close: 1 October 2026

📌 Manager, Emergency Management Unit (Australia)
🏢 NSW Health
📍 Australia