Clinical Costing and Compliance Officer

Agency Department of Health Work unit Finance and Performance

Job title Clinical Costing and Compliance Officer Designation Administrative Officer 7

Job type Full time Duration Ongoing

Salary $117,356 - $126,251 Location Darwin

Position number 46549 RTF 348851 Closing 08/06/2026

Contact officer Brodie Mitchell on 08 8922 8043 or ***email_hidden***

About the agency http://www.health.nt.gov.au/

Apply online https://jobs.nt.gov.au/Home/JobDetails?rtfId=348851

APPLICATIONS MUST INCLUDE A ONE-PAGE SUMMARY ABOUT YOU, A DETAILED RESUME AND COPIES OF YOUR

TERTIARY QUALIFICATIONS.

Information for applicants – Inclusion and diversity and Special measures

The NTPS values diversity. The NTPS encourages people from all diversity groups to apply for vacancies and accommodates

people with disability by making reasonable workplace adjustments. If you require an adjustment for the recruitment process or

job, please discuss this with the contact officer. For more information about applying for this position and the merit process, go

to the OCPE website.

Aboriginal applicants will be granted priority consideration for this vacancy. For more information on Special Measures plans, go

to the OCPE website.

Primary objective

The position is the principal source of information and advice based on the analysis and interrogation of qualitative and quantitative

performance and compliance data as well as planning, studying and collecting data to determine costs of business activity.

Context statement

Self-starter, with strong analytical and problem-solving skills, committed to delivering outcomes within strict deadlines, with a focus

on creating accurate evidence-based costing and analysis.

Key duties and responsibilities

1. Management, design and oversight of the NT Health Clinical Costing Program, utilising a high level understanding of internal

financial controls, and ability to analyse and evaluate the application of and compliance with financial policies.

2. Delivery of compliance testing, providing robust high-level evidence based analysis to assist and influence decision-making.

3. Liaison internal and external clinical and operational stakeholders to support the delivery of accurate costing data for submission

to external costing studies, and for internal strategic decision-making.

4. Use of business intelligence programs to develop accurate and relevant financial reports from various data sources, with an

emphasis on the development new of costing reports.

5. Follow defined service quality standards, work health and safety policies and procedures relating to the work being undertaken

in order to ensure high quality, safe services and workplaces

6. Foster a positive workplace culture through exemplary leadership practices and role modelling behaviour.

Selection criteria

Essential

1. Demonstrates high-level analytical and problem-solving skills, and the ability to apply those skills in the implementation and

ongoing management of costing and compliance programs.

2. High-level of motivation, drive and self-direction with the ability to be forward thinking, set priorities and effectively implement

and manage change.

3. High level understanding of the National Health Reform funding framework in particular its relevance to Activity Based Funding

for application of costing.

4. Well-developed ability to manage a high workload with constantly changing priorities, work independently under limited

direction and coordinate a range of work to meet critical short and long-term deadlines.

5. Demonstrated contemporary knowledge of clinical costing principles, practices and standards.

6. Extensive experience in the use of Excel (at least at immediate level) to develop reports which support decision-making.

7. High-level communication skills, both written and verbal, across a broad and varied stakeholder group, including an ability to

interact effectively with people from diverse cultures.

Desirable

1. Tertiary qualifications in Finance, Accounting or related business discipline and/or extensive experience in undertaking

qualitative and quantitative data analysis.

2. Experience working in the Health Sector.

Further information

Positions may be subject to pre-employment checks such as immunisation requirements, working with children clearance notice

and criminal history checks. A criminal history will not exclude an applicant from this position unless it is a relevant criminal history.

For specific immunisation requirements - Category A (direct contact with blood or body substances) or Category B (indirect contact

with blood or body substances), check website for requirements: More information on pre-employment checks specific to this role

can be sourced through the vacancy contact.