Health Principal at Nous Group

Are you ready to take the lead in reforming the health and ageing sectors? At Nous Group, we are seeking Principals in our Health & Ageing practice who bring passion, creativity, and a drive to create lasting, positive change. With a footprint extending across Australia, New Zealand, the UK, Ireland, and Canada, we offer a dynamic environment where you can harness your expertise to influence health policy, connect with system leaders, and shape the future of care. Become a part of our award-winning team recognised for excellence and commitment to enhancing lives and communities. Join us in our mission to realise a bigger idea of success.

Nous is a great place to work...

Nous Group is an international management consultancy with over 750 people working across Australia and New Zealand, the UK, Ireland and Canada. We are a values-based organisation that is inspired and determined to improve people’s lives in significant ways. Working in unique, cross-disciplinary teams we create innovative and enduring solutions that transform businesses, governments, and communities. We realise a bigger idea of success.

Nous is regularly acknowledged as a great place to work as part of competitive workplace reviews. In 2023 Nous was again named one of Australia’s Best Workplaces by Great Place to Work and was recognised as one of LinkedIn’s best places to grow a career, as a LinkedIn Top Company (Australia). We have previously been named Best Management Consulting Firm by the Australian Financial Review on several occasions and a Great Place to Work every year that we’ve entered for the past decade (Australia). We’re excited to be extending success and influence globally having recently been awarded A Great Place to Work in Canada and the UK in 2023.  

Nous is a global leader in Health & Ageing consulting

Nous supports organisations in health and aged care to deliver astute policy, programs and patient-centred services. The work of our growing health practice includes working with public health providers, private health companies, peak and professional bodies, community organisations, researchers and government leaders. The work we deliver ranges from health policy and strategy, the design and evaluation of models of care, services and programs, strengthening health and aged care service performance and leadership, to transforming digital systems and more.

Through our recent work, we have:

• Brought consumers, carers, clinicians, and policy experts together to reform a public infant, child and adolescent system, including designing enhanced models of care.
• Conducted economic analysis of the gap in funding of rural and urban healthcare, and worked with policymakers to explore solutions to address this.
• Helped a health agency prepare for future public health emergencies, by developing the optimal governance, processes and operating model to manage emergency and pandemic scenarios.
• Conducted a review of health care for First Nations people in custodial settings with a team comprising First Nations team members and co-Director.
• Developed a health care customer relationship management (CRM) roadmap for a group of health services and primary health networks as part of a digital initiative prioritisation framework.

We are looking for Principals in our Health & Ageing practice

As a Health Principal, you will grow our business and extend our positive influence through leveraging your existing relationships and developing new clients, with a focus on the WA market.  You will lead client development activities and drive the delivery of projects across our health practice. You will understand and have an influence on health policy and industry trends, bringing system leaders together to find solutions. You will work closely with colleagues, including peer health principals and directors, and support the growth of team members across Nous. 

You are:

• Passionate and driven about doing work that matters and creates positive influence, in an environment that values diversity and thrives on creativity.
• A capable and empathetic leader that can confidently direct and lead teams to develop capability and achieve high quality outcomes for clients.
• An expert in health & ageing, demonstrating a deep understanding in an area of specialisation, applying methodologies, digital tools, and market knowledge to shape compelling ideas and solutions.
• Intellectually flexible and innovative with the ability to develop intellectual property through projects, teams and practice groups to enhance our existing methods and frameworks.
• Engaging and collaborative with the ability to bring energy and enthusiasm for working with clients and colleagues throughout project design and delivery. 

You have:

• Extensive experience in the health sector and breadth of relationships with health system leaders and innovators in WA and nationally. 
• Experience of using your health expertise to advise and resolve complex problems for government and large private sector organisations.
• Demonstrable experience in developing new business, and a contemporary understanding of emerging market opportunities. 
• An interesting and understanding in specialist issues, such as: hospital management, digital health, evaluation, health finance and other fields of expertise. 
• Extensive experience in management, leadership and project direction relevant to health and aged care, organisations and/or policy. 

What makes Nous a Great Place to Work?

Our aim is to provide a flexible employee experience that delivers positive influence and growth for you, our colleagues, and our clients. This includes through:

• A shared bonus that reflects company rather than individual performance, and is available to all.
• Hybrid working arrangements, including  a monthly remote working allowance, and a one-off payment to set up a WFH office.
• Celebrating commitment to Nous by enabling access to long service leave after 5 years of employment. 
• Supporting working parents by providing 18 weeks of paid primary carer parental leave and 10 weeks of paid secondary carer parental leave (access to parental leave is gender neutral). 
• Active career and professional development support, including access up to $500 in professional development without approval and we reimburse one professional membership per year. 
• Giving all Nousers greater flexibility around public holidays, including the freedom to choose to take alternate days of leave from scheduled holidays due to cultural, religious or other beliefs. 
• Providing opportunities for personal growth, in addition to our aim of an average of 8 hours of client attention per day. 

Finally, some important details...

Nous is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. This reflects both the diversity of our people and our supportive people, culture and policies. We take pride in the inclusive workplace we have built, acknowledged by the Diversity Council of Australia as a 2021-2022 Inclusive Employer. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Nous is a flexible workplace that offers consulting opportunities on a full-time and part-time basis.

If you have experience working on complex problems, are high performing and productive working in a fast-paced environment, and want to be part of a dynamic team that puts people at the centre of everything, then we'd love to hear from you!

To apply for a role at Nous in Australia you must have the right to work in Australia. 

Please note if you are successful in the recruitment process, you will be required to undertake background screening prior to your commencement at Nous.