Program Manager

Reference Number: 4299

Category: Mental Health

Department: Specialty Services

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• Full time position
• Fixed term long service leave cover, 22nd Dec th June 2026
• Located at Royal Talbot Rehabilitation Centre, Kew

Austin Health is the major provider of tertiary health services, health professional education and research across three campuses in the north-east of Melbourne and statewide. We have a highly engaged, diverse and collaborative workforce that is unified by our goal to help people live healthy and fulfilled lives.

About CBDATS

The Community Brain Disorders Assessment and Treatment Service (CBDATS) is part of a multi-component neuropsychiatry program that provides support to individuals with a brain injury or neurodegenerative condition and associated psychiatric disorders.

CBDATS is a specialist, state wide service providing assessment, short term treatment and consultancy to service providers, consumers and carers in the community. In addition to direct client-based intervention, the service also offers secondary consultation, education and training.

About the role:

The Program Manager works closely with the Specialty Services Directorate leads to provide clinical and operational leadership to the team.

A regular day will see you:

• Supporting a dedicated and highly skilled team of clinicians

• Problem solving creatively to support safe, evidence-based treatment

• Fostering positive team culture with a focus on best outcomes for consumers

• Contributing to ongoing review and refinement of the service model, including development and expansion

• Receiving responsive and timely support from the leadership team

About you:

We are seeking a dynamic, experienced mental health clinician to provide clinical and operational leadership to the Community Brain Disorders Assessment and Treatment Service (CBDATS).

To be successful in this role you'll bring with you:

• Significant clinical and operational leadership skills, within a community mental health setting

• A passion for ensuring that consumers and carers are at the centre of care provision

• Motivation to ensure practice aligns with current evidence

• An appetite for expanding your leadership skills in a specialist service setting

• An intentional, reflective, collaborative approach to clinical leadership

• Highly developed communication skills

Our benefits

Working at Austin Health means enjoying a strong sense of purpose, engaging in meaningful work every day. Our people also receive a variety of rewarding benefits, including:

• Greater take-home pay through generous salary packaging, for living expenses, meals, and holiday accommodation.
• A suite of wellness initiatives designed to support you, including discounted fitness memberships and special offers on health insurance, and a comprehensive wellbeing program.
• Onsite childcare at Austin Hospital, easy access via public transport and car parking options.
• Mentoring and career development opportunities.

Work with us

We are committed to cultural safety and health equity for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander People. We celebrate, value, and include people of all backgrounds, genders, identities, cultures, bodies, and abilities. We welcome and support applications from talented people identifying as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander, people with disability, neurodiverse people, LGBTQIA+ and people of all ages and cultures.

If you feel this role is right for you, we encourage your early application. Even if you don't meet every single requirement, we encourage you to apply. What matters most is your passion, your drive and your willingness to learn and contribute. Applications will be reviewed as they are received, and interviews may take place prior to the closing date. This means we reserve the right to close a job ad prior to the advertised closing date.

All appointments are made subject to a satisfactory National Police Check and if required, a Working With Children Check. If you require any reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process, you are welcome to reach out to the hiring manager:Rachel Collins, Divisional Manager Specialty Services on or at

Interested in finding out more about this opportunity? Read theposition description for further details.

Application closing date: 16 November 2025