Allied Health Program Manager

**About the Role**

Under the guidance of the State Manager, you will provide direct line management, support, leadership and service management of the Allied Health Team to ensure the delivery of intensive counselling/therapy as required via office and outreach based support. The Allied Health service uses evidence based best-practice assessment, case formulation, treatment and prevention of a wide range of mental health disorders and other systemic barriers preventing our customers from entering employment or beginning study. The Allied Health Program Manager role also involves the delivery of staff training, staff supervision and consultancy with other service providers.

**This role is being offered on a full time, ongoing basis at our Adelaide CBD Site.**

**About You**

To be successful in this role you will be able to:

- Demonstrate experience in managing an Allied Health service and ability to complete reports and administrative tasks to a high standard;
- Demonstrate your ability to think strategically and develop and implement strategic plans;
- Demonstrate knowledge of the local labour market, and the requirements and expectations of employers;
- Demonstrate knowledge of government programs, legal frameworks and legislation pertaining to employment and training services;
- Demonstrate your ability to empower staff to achieve results in the Employment Services environment and/or similar environment;
- Demonstrate experience in building positive interpersonal and external relationships with staff and other agencies;
- Demonstrate experience in delivering a wide range of psychological assessments and a high level of interpersonal skills with demonstrated experience in providing counselling and therapy to clients with complex needs; and
- Demonstrate experience in program delivery and group facilitation is highly regarded.

You will also be required to:

- Hold a current driver’s licence;
- Hold a minimum Bachelor Degree or higher qualification in Behavioural Sciences, Psychology, Social Work, or Mental Health Counselling; and
- Social Workers must be registered with the Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW) (SA staff only).

**About Us**

Workskil Australia is a national not-for-profit and charitable organisation, with almost 40 proud years of supporting Australians to achieve sustained economic and social self-reliance. We do this by providing a range of employment, work experience, disability, youth, Indigenous and community services across New South Wales, South Australia, Western Australia and Victoria.

We promote a positive team culture where high performance can thrive. We value excellent customer service, integrity and honesty in our employees. We look for employees who have a genuine passion for working with those in need, are results-focused and can contribute to a strong team. In return for your truly valued contribution we will support your ongoing career development and offer a friendly, supportive & innovative environment for you to thrive.

We work hard every day to:

- Work with our Customers to secure great long-term job opportunities.
- Meet the labour needs of business and industry through quality recruitment services at no cost.
- Assist businesses with diversifying their workforce.
- Provide specialist employment and community services to people seeking work, including people with mental illness, injury or disability and Indigenous Australians.
- Deliver work experience projects to the community.

Our values remain at the heart of everything we do and we strive to conduct our business with the highest degree of care, integrity, respect, honesty and service. We believe that the care, respect and high level of service we give to all of our customers is our key point of difference.

**Remuneration**

A competitive salary will be negotiated commensurate with skills and experience. As Workskil Australia is a public benevolent institution, we can also offer a portion of the salary through tax effective salary packaging.

**About your Application**

Workskil Australia is an inclusive, equal opportunity employer and we welcome applicants who identify as Indigenous, are from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds or have disability. We deliver a range of employment and community services to children, young people and their families and are committed to creating a safe environment for children and young people in the delivery of these services.