Unit Manager Maternal Child Health and Immunisation

3 weeks ago

Coburg, Australia Merri-bek City Council Full time

**Full time permanent role**:

- **Senior Executive Officer (SEO)**:

- **Ability to transfer or take LSL (Long Service Leave) within Local Government**

**About Merri-bek City Council**:
Merri-bek is a progressive council with 180,000 residents: one community, proudly diverse. Our city is vibrant and energetic, known for its active community, array of fabulous festivals, cool pools, eclectic shops and our community of artists and creative industries. As a Council, we’ve been supporting our community through difficult times, and our long term vision has ambitious goals for environmental sustainability, community wellbeing, and creating great places.

Merri-bek City Council strives to be a contemporary, innovative and collaborative organisation with a deep commitment to engagement with, the Merri-bek community. With the Civic Centre located in Coburg, 8 kilometres north of Melbourne’s CBD, there are excellent public transport options and great food and cafés right at the doorstep. Merri-bek City Council is a great place to live, work and play.

We pride ourselves on being an inclusive and welcoming workplace. We offer flexible and hybrid work options and genuinely care about providing our staff work/life balance. **Our organisational vision is: One team brave and diverse making a difference.**

**About the role**:
Reporting to Manager Early Years and Youth you will have the opportunity to drive your passion in fulfilling Council’s role in delivering high quality services and strategic planning to improve the health, wellbeing, safety, participation and development of its youngest citizens and families in Merri-bek.

To be successful in this role, you will be a strategic thinker with a community and customer focus. You will have a record of achievement in operational and staff management, service and program development and delivery, strategic planning, partnership development and advocacy.

With qualifications in Maternal and Child Health or other relevant field and senior leadership experience in local government, public sector or the health and human service sectors you will demonstrate first rate people management skills and an ability to support, mentor and develop a highly committed and talented team in the planning and delivery of Maternal and Child Health and Immunisation Services and a range of programs and initiatives to support the health, wellbeing and development of babies, young children and their families in Merri-bek.

You will have experience in program/service planning and a proven track record in driving continuous quality improvement. You will have high level analytical and interpersonal communication skills, with an ability to communicate effectively with diverse groups and also take the lead in building strategic partnerships, capitalising on opportunities and driving innovation within Maternal and Child Health and Immunisation Services.

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**Skills and experience require to perform the role**:

- Demonstrated understanding of Child Safety and Wellbeing requirements and how this applies in the role of Unit Manager Maternal and Child Health and Immunisation and the various settings in which the services operate.
- Significant experience in managing health or related services, programs and projects including demonstrated skills in strategic and business planning.
- Commitment to providing high quality, culturally relevant services and experience in driving continuous improvement processes.
- Proven experience and skills in financial, operational and staff management and a proven capacity to lead and support a team consistent with Council’s values.

**What the role can offer**:

- Extensive opportunities for training & career development
- Salary sacrifice options
- A real sense of work-life balance & flexible work options
- Employer-supported study assistance schemes

**Further support offered for our staff-**:

- Up to 20 weeks primary carer parental leave
- Up to 5 weeks secondary parental leave
- Purchase leave (ability to purchase additional annual leave)
- Ceremonial leave
- Gender affirmation leave
- Family violence leave

**Applications close: 11:30pm, Tuesday, 12 September 2023.**

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**How to apply**:

- Please note that some documents relating to this position may reference Moreland City Council. We are in the process of updating the councils new name of Merri-bek City Council.

Merri-bek is focused on diverse representation of the community we serve. With this we value lived experience that could contribute to the shaping of this role and in turn will continue to provide representation and growth of safe and inclusive work culture.

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**Our Commitment**:
In May 2021, Merri-bek Council adopted a revised Statement of Commitment to Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung People and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities of the municipality. The statement recognises the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung people as the traditional owners of the lands and waterways of our municipality.

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