What it does: The Department of Health improves, promotes, protects, and maintains the health, safety, and well-being of Tasmanians through service planning, managing, procuring, and delivering high-quality health services.
Mission: The Tasmanian Government is committed to making information accessible to all Tasmanians.
Size and presence: With more than 10,000 employees, it covers the entire of Tasmania.
Best known for: The Department of Health is responsible for hospitals, ambulances, community health, and related areas such as primary healthcare.
The good bits: A rewarding workplace staffed by considerate educated staff with goals in mind.
The not-so-good bits: Terrible workforce culture. Competitive. Not supportive. Discriminative. poorly managed.
The Department of Health, previously combined as the Department of Health and Human Services, is the Tasmanian Government department with responsibilities regarding hospitals, ambulances, public housing, community health, and related areas including limited involvement in primary healthcare. The department is the largest of all the Tasmanian Government agencies.
The department is led by its Secretary, Kathryn Morgan-Wicks. The Secretary is responsible to the Minister for Health, presently the Honourable Sarah Courtney MP, and the Minister for Mental Health and Wellbeing, presently the Honourable Jeremy Rockliff MP.
Through the Tasmanian Health Service, the department has responsibility for the public hospital system, community health care services, and some primary. This includes the delivery of health care at the Launceston General Hospital, the Royal Hobart Hospital, Mersey Community Hospital, and the North West Regional Hospital.
Through a range of other government agencies, the department has responsibility for other government functions delivered by Aboriginal Housing Services Tasmania, Adoptions and Permanency Service, Alcohol and Drug Service, Ambulance Tasmania, Correctional Primary Health Service, Disability and Community Services, Family Violence Counselling and Support Service, Housing Tasmania, Mental Health Services, Oral Health Services Tasmania, Orthotic and Prosthetic Service, Palliative Care Service, Pharmaceutical Services, Public and Environmental Health, Sexual Health Service Tasmania, Tasmanian Clinical Genetics Service, Tasmanian Infection Prevention and Control Unit, WP Holman Clinic, and the Youth Justice Services.
Ambulance Tasmania provides integrated, high-quality, pre-hospital emergency, and medical care, health transport, and medical retrieval services to the Tasmanian community. - Public Health Services works to improve and protect the health and well-being of all Tasmanians by working in partnership with individuals, groups, and communities.
We offer a huge variety and diversity of short and long-term opportunities, including:
You’ll provide outreach services through:
Corporate Services manages the delivery of an efficient and effective statewide health and human services system by leading the provision of strategic corporate, policy, and regulatory services. - Planning, Purchasing, and Performance perform the core system management functions of strategy and planning, purchasing, performance management, monitoring, reporting, and analysis. Office of the Secretary provides high-level public administration, parliamentary and corporate governance support, and advice to DoH, the Secretary, and Portfolio Minister.
We are a flexible employer with great working conditions, attractive salaries, and world-class benefits including:
We offer two salary sacrifice arrangements where you can forego some of your normal salary pre-tax for:
Our leave entitlements and options help you balance your work and personal life and include:
Our employee assistance program (EAP) is a confidential counseling service for you and your immediate dependent family members. We have contracted national corporate psychology and human resource consulting firm. They can provide you with independent and confidential counseling.
Funding to CSOs is administered through a variety of program areas including: