Manager Statewide Services

**Employment Status**

Permanent Part Time

**Program**

Mental Health Drug and Alcohol Services

**Location**

131 Myers Street

**Hours Per Fortnight**

48

**Position Summary**
- Leadership opportunity - RPN Grade 5 and OT, Social Worker and Psychologist Grade 4
- Provide effective leadership, operational management and vision for MHDAS Statewide Services
- Hello work/life balance Permanent Part Time - 48 hours per fortnight

**About the service**

Our Mental Health Drugs and Alcohol Services (MHDAS), provides integrated and recovery oriented mental health, drugs and alcohol assessment, treatment and community support to people of all ages within the Barwon region experiencing, or at risk of experiencing, mental health and drug & alcohol issues, and their families.

Our service is internationally recognised for its innovative clinical programs and integrated models of practice that are client centred, accessible and family inclusive. We are fortunate to enjoy terrific internal relationships and have developed excellent partnerships with the local community that provide for seamless integrated care for our clients.

MHDAS is entering a new phase of co-design of our service system with people who access our services and our wider community. This will build on our nationally recognized unique cultural approach to the challenges of recovery oriented service delivery to redesign our service system.

**About you**
- Formal professionally recognised qualifications in Nursing, Occupational Therapy, Social Work, or Psychology
- Demonstrated relevant clinical experience, particularly in community mental health settings
- Demonstrated ability to develop and maintain effective collaborative relationships with internal and external stakeholders
- Demonstrated leadership and operational management skills working in a complex health environment with multiple funding streams, including demonstrated ability to monitor, analyse and interpret data

**About the role**

As the successful applicant, you will provide effective leadership, operational management and vision for MHDAS Statewide Services and partnerships, including:

- Developing and maintaining strong and sustainable collaborative relationships and clinical oversight between MHDAS and relevant external stakeholders
- Daily operational management of the HOPs, Family Violence, FaPMi and Forensic programs
- Monitoring MHDAS data recording in relation to EIPSR, AAPs HOPs, Family Violence, FaPMi and Forensic programs others as required to ensure appropriate and efficient use of these resources across MHDAS
- To ensure services are high quality, innovative, evidence based and uphold the Barwon Health MHDAS principles of recovery orientated practice

**What we offer**
- EBA annual leave entitlements with the option to purchase additional leave
- Professional development opportunities
- Doorstep to the Great Ocean Road, Bellarine Peninsula and the Surf Coast
- Attractive salary packaging benefits
- Living Expenses capped at $9,010 and includes repayments on mortgages, credit cards, personal loans and rental payments
- Meal Entertainment & Accommodation capped at $2,650 and includes food and drink consumed in a social or entertainment settings and some accommodation expenditure

**Diversity and Inclusion**

At Barwon Health we are committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce. We embrace diverse life experiences and the perspectives of our people, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, religion, cultural background, disability, or sexual orientation.
- Applicants for this role must be fully vaccinated for Covid-19 and influenza and meet the requirements of the Barwon Health immunisation policy._

Melbourne, Victoria

**Selection Criteria**

Essential: Can you please list Barwon Health's values?
Essential: Can you please choose one of Barwon Health's values and describe a situation in the workplace where you have displayed this value?
Essential: Formal professionally recognised qualifications in Mental Health Nursing, Occupational Therapy, Social Work or Psychology (including endorsement to practice as a clinical or forensic psychologist) and relevant professional registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency
Essential: Meets classification definitions under appropriate Award/Agreement regarding clinical and leadership experience
Essential: Demonstrated leadership and operational management skills working in a complex health environment with multiple funding streams, including demonstrated ability to monitor, analyse and interpret data
Essential: Demonstrated ability to develop and maintain effective collaborative relationships with internal and external stakeholders and to lead, manage and motivate staff
Essential: Demonstrated ability to lead and sustain system change and deliver negotiated outcomes
Essential: Demonstrated effective written, verbal and interpersonal communication skills
Essential: I agree, to commence employment, I am required