Employment Type: Full Time, Temporary (up to 30 June 2028 with possibility of extension)

Position Classification: Health Manager Level 3

Remuneration: $132,236 - $150,222 plus Super

Location: 1 Reserve Road, St Leonards NSW

Hours Per Week: 38

Requisition ID: REQ667742 and REQ668144

Closing Date: Tuesday, 14 July 2026 (11:59PM).

Join our InforMH Team in the System Information and Analytics Branch at Ministry of Health for an exciting temporary employment opportunity and be part of the team enriching health in millions of ways every day. Our team supports mental health and suicide prevention and response services in using data to improve care.

To learn more about the Ministry and what benefits we offer, access our Employee Benefits Handbook.

With your skills and experience, you can contribute to the millions of ways we’re enhancing health and wellness while developing your career as part of the largest health organisation in Australia.

You will be working with InforMH - A team responsible for data development, collection, analysis and reporting for NSW public mental health and suicide prevention and response services, and the analysis and reporting of data from the NSW Suicide Monitoring System (SuMS). In this position of Biostatistician / Senior Analyst, your role will support data development, extraction, analysis and reporting for priority NSW Health suicide prevention and related mental health projects.

What you’ll be doing

• Demonstrated experience in analysis or reporting of suicide data or the application of tools and techniques relevant to suicide data, including time series analysis, trend detection, smoothing and mapping.
• Extensive knowledge of health-related data collections and systems, the strengths and weaknesses of these databases and a good understanding of the NSW and Australian Health Systems.
• Extensive experience conducting and interpreting statistical analyses of population-based health administrative other health related data, including linked datasets, using a range of analytic tools and methodologies to describe clinical care, clinical pathways or the performance of health systems.
• Extensive knowledge and experience in the use of statistical analysis software packages, high level programming languages, relational databases and related software for manipulation, analysis and reporting of information.
• Relevant biostatistics postgraduate qualification or equivalent; and relevant biostatistical experience and training.

• This is a temporary role and there may be opportunities for ongoing employment at grade.
• This recruitment may be used to create a Talent Pool for similar future roles (ongoing or temporary) that may arise over the next 18 months.
• Please note the selection process will include a range of merit-based techniques to assist in determining your suitability for the role.