Community Program Manager

Job Description
- Community Program Manager**Req ID**:1740**Posting Start Date**:14/10/2024**Advertisement End Date**:14/11/2024**Work Location**:Waratah Community Health ServiceThe Royal Melbourne Hospital is one of Australia’s leading public healthcare providers. Join the team. Build a career. We are looking for a passionate and dedicated individual to join The Royal Melbourne Hospital.

**Community Program Manager**

**Royal Melbourne Hospital**
- Full time, ongoing role (80 hours per fortnight).
- Senior clinical leadership role responsible for community mental health programs, open to Registered Psychiatric Nurses, Occupational Therapists, Social Workers or Clinical Psychologists.
- A key role to ensure consumers and carers of the service are provided with high quality, evidence-based care.
- Provide supervision and support to team leaders and team members as required.
- Contribute as a member of the Royal Melbourne Hospital - Mental Health Services clinical leadership team and participate in service review, planning, and development activities.

**The Royal Melbourne Hospital**

As one of the largest health services in Victoria, and a team of more than 10,000 strong, we provide a comprehensive range of specialist medical, surgical, and mental health services; as well as rehabilitation, aged care, outpatient and community programs. We are a designated state-wide provider for services including trauma, and we lead centres of excellence for tertiary services in several key specialties including neurosciences, nephrology, oncology, cardiology and virtual health.

Surrounded by a Parkville Precinct of brilliant thinkers, we collaborate to set new benchmarks in health excellence - benchmarks that impact across the globe. While the work we do takes us in inspiring new directions; caring for each other, our patients and consumers is as essential to who we are, as any scientific breakthrough we make. We put people first - leading with kindness and working together, we excel as one Royal Melbourne Hospital.

**Your new team**

Royal Melbourne Hospital Mental Health Services (RMH - MHS) is committed to working with consumers during their recovery by offering holistic and evidence-based (EB) treatment, which is inclusive of family/carers and provided by clinicians with well-developed skills.

Our service strives to create the best possible learning opportunities available to complement and support both emerging and existing expertise. Staff are required to actively participate in their own practice development by engaging in available learning opportunities within the service, as well as being committed to sharing their knowledge with their colleagues.

You will work closely with clinicians, other practice leaders, and the service leadership team to support our vision “Make a Difference, Every Time, Every Opportunity ”

**Your success in this role will be in your ability to**:

- Operate as a self-motivated, enthusiastic and well-organised mental health leader with a passion for provision of high quality, recovery focused services.
- Work across several sub-teams ensuring consistent, integrated high quality mental health service delivery.
- Communicate effectively with a broad range of community stakeholders.
- Manage a broad range of issues simultaneously and prioritise effectively.
- Participate as a member of the RMH - MHS leadership team.
- Contribute to organisation-wide and service/division initiatives and planning activities.
- Ensure that the teams you manage are providing high quality services to consumers and their families/carers.

**About you**:

- Relevant registration and qualifications as any of the following: Occupational Therapist, Social Worker, Clinical Psychologist or Registered Psychiatric Nurse (see position description for details).
- Demonstrated experience in leadership to embed evidence-based, recovery-focussed and person-centred practice as the foundation of clinical care.
- Extensive experience and competence in the development and provision of assessment and treatment for people with mental illness and psychosocial disability, inclusive of the impact of mental illness on dependent children and family/carers.
- Demonstrated organisational and management skills in a multidisciplinary mental health setting, including the ability to manage human and financial resources.

**Our commitment to you**

Here at The RMH we strive for excellence with a strong purpose that defines the work we do for our community - _Advancing health for everyone, every day_. This is the Melbourne Way.

We believe our success comes from our people. We’re committed to the RMH being a great place to work and a great place to receive care. We have made a long-term commitment to strengthen our organisational culture through leadership, education and empowering our staff to Speak Up for themselves and each other.

This is a role where your passion and expertise can come together to create a truly defining career