- Salary: Admin Grade 3 + Superannuation + Salary Packaging

About the role:

The Mission: Best Care, Powered by Data.

At Western Health, we don’t just provide care; we are building the healthcare of the future. Serving one of Melbourne’s most diverse and rapidly growing communities, our mission is simple: Best Care, in the right place, at the right time.

High-quality data is fundamental to delivering on that mission. From clinical decision-making and operational performance to statutory reporting and executive strategy, trusted data enables Western Health to understand what is happening, identify opportunities for improvement and make better decisions.

Key responsibilities:

The Role: Turning Data Quality into Confidence.

If you are passionate about data quality, assurance and governance, this is your arena.

As a Data Assurance & Reporting Officer within our Performance Unit, you will play a critical role in ensuring that the data underpinning organisational reporting and decision-making is accurate, complete, consistent, timely and fit for purpose.

You will work at the intersection of data, systems and the business — investigating anomalies, identifying root causes, strengthening data controls and partnering with stakeholders to build confidence in the information we rely on.

- Statutory & Performance Reporting: Provide assurance over key datasets (VEMD, VAED, VINAH) and reporting processes, identifying risks and implementing controls to improve compliance and reporting confidence.
- Data Quality & Assurance: Develop and implement data quality checks,



validation processes and assurance frameworks that ensure critical healthcare and operational data can be trusted.
- Root-Cause Investigation: Investigate data anomalies, inconsistencies and reporting issues, tracing problems back through systems, processes and source data to identify sustainable solutions.
- Reporting Integrity: Support the accuracy and integrity of MaP (Monitoring and Performance) and other organisational reporting, ensuring information provided to Clinical Directors, Executives and operational leaders is reliable and meaningful.
- Culture Catalyst: Build high-trust relationships across Western Health, working with data owners and subject matter experts to establish a culture where data quality is everyone's responsibility.

Your Profile:

- The Data Quality Mindset: You have a robust understanding of data quality, validation and assurance principles and are naturally curious about how data is created, transformed and consumed.
- Healthcare Curiosity: You have a "hunger for the hunt" — you enjoy investigating unexpected results, identifying patterns and finding the root cause behind data quality issues.
- The Translator: You possess Communication Mastery, turning complex data and technical issues into clear, practical recommendations that non-technical stakeholders can understand and act upon.
- The Detail Detective:



You have exceptional attention to detail and understand that in healthcare, data accuracy isn't just a goal — it’s essential to safe, effective and accountable care.
- The Collaborator: You are comfortable working across clinical, operational, corporate and technical environments, bringing people together to resolve data issues and improve processes.

The Western Health Advantage:

- Work-Life Balance: 5 weeks of annual leave + 1 Accrued Day Off (ADO) every month.
- Hybrid Freedom: Work from home part of the week with an office base at the historic Williamstown Hospital.
- Financial Optimisation: Generous tax-effective salary packaging.

About you:

- Would suit those with a Health Information Management tertiary qualification.
- Strong technical skills in MS Excel, with the ability to organise data, create formulas.
- interrogate datasets, identify anomalies and validate data across multiple sources.
- Experience developing and implementing data quality rules, validation checks, reconciliation processes and data assurance controls.
- Demonstrated ability to investigate data issues and perform root-cause analysis, including tracing discrepancies through source systems, business processes and data transformations.
- Experience working with data visualisation and reporting tools, with the ability to assess whether reported information is accurate, meaningful and fit for purpose.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to identify data risks, prioritise issues and develop practical and sustainable solutions.
- Demonstrated experience in data quality, data

📌 Data Assurance (Melbourne)
🏢 Western Health
📍 Melbourne