Health Manager

Employment Type: Temporary Part Time, 32 hours per week until April 2026

Location: Fairfield Community Health Centre

Position Classification: Health Manager Level 3

Remuneration:$ $75.76 per hour

Requisition ID: REQ621782

Application Close Date: 30/11/2025

Interview Date Range: 03/12/2025 – 10/12/2025

Contact Details: Katie Barham – |

About the Opportunity

Are you passionate about improving health outcomes for people with intellectual disabilities? Do you thrive in leadership roles that drive innovation, collaboration, and service excellence?

South Western Sydney Local Health District (SWSLHD) is seeking a dynamic and experienced leader to manage our Specialist Intellectual Disability Team. This is a unique opportunity to shape district-wide models of care for children and adults, support the sustainability of the NDIS, and lead outreach services to Southern NSW.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and manage a multidisciplinary team delivering integrated, evidence-based care.
• Oversee the Child Developmental Assessment Service and outreach programs.
• Build capacity in mainstream health services to better support people with intellectual disabilities.
• Drive strategic planning, workforce development, and stakeholder engagement.
• Ensure services meet performance indicators and quality standards

What You'll be Doing

The manager of the Specialist Intellectual Disability Team will provide district wide leadership in child and adult intellectual disability models of care, including the sustainability of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). This role provides senior operational management to the Specialist Intellectual Disability Team to ensure delivery of integrated and effective service delivery models of care and oversees the implementation and ongoing management of the Child Developmental Assessment Service models of care within SWSLHD.

The Manager will lead the Specialist Intellectual Disability Health team to develop an outreach service to SNSWLHD that may include clinics with local clinicians conducting comprehensive health assessments, joint client consultations by telehealth and skills training with local staff.

The manager will lead and oversee the teams ability to build skills, experience and confidence of mainstream health staff to meet the health needs of people with intellectual disabilities whilst maintaining an evidence based clinical model of care for clients and their families/carers.

Where You'll Be Working

SWSLHD Primary & Community Health provides a comprehensive range of community-based services designed to improve and maintain the health and wellbeing of individuals and communities across South Western Sydney.

These services include prevention, early intervention, assessment, acute and post-acute treatment, health maintenance, and continuing care. The team supports diverse populations, offering specialised programs for children, young people, older adults, and at-risk communities.

With over 800 dedicated staff, including Aboriginal Health Workers, nurses, doctors, and allied health professionals, the service ensures high-quality care close to where people live.

The focus on community health and wellbeing makes SWSLHD Primary & Community Health an ideal place to work, providing opportunities for professional growth and the chance to make a meaningful impact on the community.

How to Apply

To be considered for this position, please ensure you address the below questions as thoroughly as possible. View our application guide for information on how to respond to criteria and improve your application.

• Relevant tertiary qualification in health related discipline and/or relevant experience working with people with an intellectual disability/developmental disability.
• Proven experience in and demonstrated sound achievement and leadership at a management level in a large and complex organisation.
• Excellent negotiation, decision making and influencing skills including the ability to interact constructively and collaboratively with a diverse range of stakeholders, through all organisational levels.
• Demonstrated experience in managing, planning and development of services within an evidence based framework and quality process.
• Demonstrated high level written and oral communication skills and excellent interpersonal skills.

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Additional Information

Salary Packaging

South Western Sydney Local Health District employees are able to enjoy the benefits of salary packing. Visit Smart Salary for more details.

Health & Fitness

South Western Sydney Local Health District employees receive discounted Gym Membership/Corporate Wellbeing Programs, including Fitness Passport.

Transforming Your Experience

Transforming Your Experience (TYE) is SWSLHDs key strategy to always positively transform your, our patients, our consumers, our staffs and our communities experiences across our organisation and services. Our vision is that our care is always safe, high quality and personalised and all our staff are supported and empowered to achieve their full potential. SWSLHD upholds the CORE Values – Collaboration, Openness, Respect and Empowerment.

To be eligible for permanent appointment to a position in NSW Health, you must have an Australian citizenship or permanent Australian residency.

At South Western Sydney Local Health District we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, where we don't just accept differences but we honour and support it. Committed to providing a working environment that thrives and values diversity, we encourage people of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander background, people with a disability and people from the LGBTQI+ community to apply.

SWSLHD is committed to driving a child safe culture that upholds children and young people's rights. We strive to ensure children and young people feel safe, supported and included in their care. Existing staff of SWSLHD and those seeking employment are required to take the safety, welfare and wellbeing of children and young people seriously while taking action to keep them safe from harm and abuse.

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