Director of Social Work and Deputy Director Operations Allied Health, Women

**Title**:Director of Social Work and Deputy Director Operations Allied Health, Women & Children's Program**: - Requisition ID: 2621 - Location: Eastern Health, VIC, AU, 3128 - Job Posting Date: 22 Jan 2025 Do you work for Eastern Health currently? If so, please log in to Eastern Health Careers Employee Login using your network login details to see the full range of jobs available to you **Director of Social Work and Deputy Director Operations Allied Health, Women & Children** - Leadership and Management role | Drive innovation in our allied health workforce - Full Time permanent position | 5 week’s annual leave + monthly day off - Inner-East Location | Join an organisation with real purpose and values in health **Eastern Health** Eastern Health is one of Melbourne’s largest public health services. We provide a range of emergency, surgical, medical and general healthcare services and have a proud history of serving a diverse community. Our Healthier Together promise underpins our strategic plan - which is to serve the growing and changing needs of our community and to care about and develop our staff. We believe our people make the difference. **About the role** This is a unique opportunity for a passionate Social Work and Allied Health leader at a really exciting time within Eastern Health Allied Health professionally and operationally as they evolve structures and ways of work to achieve their Eastern Health 2025 promise of "Healthier Together". The Director Social Work/Deputy Director Operations Allied Health, Women & Children is accountable for the profession specific standards of practice for the Social Work profession across the entire Eastern Health continuum, driving strategies to identify and mitigate professional risks at clinical and workforce levels across the organisation. The Director Social Work/Deputy Director Operations Allied Health, Women & Children is also responsible for proactively partnering with other Deputy Directors Operations and Clinical Directors within the Women & Children Program and engaging other profession leaders where indicated to lead innovation and evaluation of allied health models of care and address multidisciplinary issues and operations for allied health staff across the Program. This role is specifically responsible for the operational and clinical performance of the Victorian Paediatric Rehabilitation Service, Eastern Centre Against Sexual Assault (ECASA) as well as Allied Health staff within the Women & Children Program. **About you** To be successful in this role you will possess: - Hold active registration with peak professional body - Meet EH Allied Health credentialing standards for nominated profession - Demonstrated high level leadership and change management skills - Clinical and management experience within the public health setting and across multidisciplinary models of care - Expertise in healthcare finance and budget management - Demonstrated expertise in health industry workforce and industrial systems - Ability to lead high performing teams and individuals and address underperformance issues as they arise - Demonstrated ability to develop and successfully implement creative solutions to complex systemic and organisational problems - High-level communication, written and verbal, with demonstrated high level inter-personal skills with consumers, their families and all healthcare professionals - Healthcare workers are strongly recommended to follow COVID vaccination recommendations provided in the _Australian Immunisation handbook (based on ATAGI advice)_. Seasonal vaccination against influenza is a mandatory requirement of this role and an offer is conditional on this being up to date prior to employment._ **What we offer** Eastern Health offers a variety of fantastic Employee Benefits, view the extensive range here - Diverse and engaging career opportunities - Friendly & supportive team - Flexible working hours - Salary packaging options - Career progression in our teaching hospitals **Next Steps** **Good to know**: - We are an equal opportunity employer and actively promote equality for people of all races, ethnicities, gender identities, sexual orientations, and for people living with disability - within the communities we serve and our Eastern Health team. - We provide a culturally safe and welcoming environment for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander employees. - As a child-safe organisation, we ensure child safety and wellbeing is embedded in our everyday culture. - Vaccination and screening for immunity to vaccine-preventable disease is a mandatory requirement of this role. - Advertising may end before the closing date. Please Contact Person: katherine Monk Contact Number: 0481 450 812 Job Posting End Date: 22/02/2025 Just contact the Hiring Manager in the advertisement or call the Talent Acquisition Team on (03) 9955 7555 (Option 1) **Our Values in Action**: Respect for all | Safe always | Partnering in care | Learnin