Welcome to St John of God Health Care

St John of God Health Care is one of the largest private providers of health care services in Australia, employing more than 16,000 employees (caregivers). We operate 27 hospitals and services comprising more than 3,500 hospital beds, including home nursing, disability services and social outreach programs.

Mental Wellbeing & Raphael Services is an innovative community-based service providing specialist individual and group therapy for women and families affected by perinatal mental illness.

Our organisation supports and specialised mental health services to parents and families where the parent is experiencing a mental health disorder, where there are parent-infant relationship issues or where a child up to four years of age is experiencing emotional difficulties. The service is based in the community and provided at no cost to clients.

Your Role

Supports and maintains a framework for activity within Social Outreach services, which will include strategic development, service planning and delivery of community mental health services including:

• General Counselling – young and adults
• Group programs
• Psychiatric support
• Perinatal and infant mental health

The Position

• Provides support to the Director Community Mental Health Services with respect to the formulation and implementation of service activity.
• Develops strategies and make recommendations on service planning and implementation of accessible early intervention and treatment services to the populations within the region.
• Develops collaborative relationships and partnerships with key stakeholder groups.
• Supports and maintains a framework for the identification, selection, prioritisation, implementation and evaluation of service activities.
• Provides operational input into the development of the Social Outreach Strategic Plan.
• Presents programs/information sessions including caregiver orientation and other identified/requested forums.
• Implements and monitors the service budget and associated reporting requirements, taking action to address identified gaps/issues.
• Provides daily operational leadership, guidance and line management for service caregivers.

Having previous experience in a similar leadership role, you will have the ability to lead strategic service planning and to manage the establishment and implementation of new services and have demonstrated significant depth of understanding and experience of working with communities to develop social capital.

To succeed you will possess a tertiary qualification relevant to the role, such as Mental Health Nursing, Social Work or Psychology and/or professional registration in a social, behavioural or health sciences field is essential to the role and have demonstrated understanding and experience in establishing and/or maintaining safe practice in community-based setting.

Above all, as manager of Mental Wellbeing and Raphael Serices VIC, people will be at the core of everything you do committing to and supporting our Mission and Values.

We can offer you

• Salary: $154,700 to $171,900, plus 11% superannuation
• This position is on a permanent full time basis, working 76 hours a fortnight.
• Generous salary packaging options
  • Up to $15,900 on a range of benefits such as mortgage, rent, or other everyday living expenses
  • Up to $2650 on meal entertainment, holiday accommodation and venue hire
  • Access to novated leasing to use pre-tax dollars for a car and expenses
• A healthy work-life balance through flexible work options, additional purchased leave & well-being programs
• Employee discount on St John of God Hospital & Medical Services and Private Health Insurance
• Employee support through our dedicated free Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Innovative Professional Development opportunities
• Access to a range of Lifestyle, Health & Wellbeing rewards & discount

All applicants are asked to submit a covering letter (of no more than two (2) pages) demonstrating how you meet the position requirements as detailed above

St John of God Social Outreach is committed to providing a safe environment for all children and vulnerable people in its care and proactively takes measures to protect children/vulnerable people from abuse.

For enquiries contact Anna-Marie Thompson, Director Community Mental Health Services, on 0436 278 691.