• Full time – Ongoing
• Exciting and rewarding leadership position within our Health Service
• Opportunity to drive innovation and change across program areas in our growing organisation
• Highly committed, supportive and friendly team 

Are you ready to take the next step in your career, leveraging your experience within Family and Community Services to drive better outcomes for our community? Then this role is for you!

We are seeking an experienced, positive and motivated Family and Community Services professional to join our team. Reporting to the Executive Director Community Health (EDCH) this role will lead and manage the Family and Community Program team, defined resources, program objectives and professional practice standards within the community based programs. As part of the Senior Leadership Team, this role also has the opportunity to provide input and advocacy to drive change across the organisation.

This role will also develop strategies to promote and support effective and efficient interfaces between Family and Community Programs across Colac Area Health and external agencies.

Our committed and diverse team deliver a range of services to support our community safety and wellbeing including drug and alcohol, counselling, family violence and integrated family support services ensuring that these are responsive and best practice.

As our ideal candidate you: 

• Are tertiary qualified (Social Work, Psychology, Community Development or similar) with Management experience
• Are an experienced people focused leader with a strong record in leading and managing a diverse disciplinary team and managing and reporting on a range of funding streams
• Have highly developed interpersonal skills and easily build respectful relationships and work collaboratively within your team, across the organisation and with external service providers
• Have a growth mindset, value accountability of self and others and consistently model the behaviours you want to promote across the organisation
• Are self-directed, well organised and will proactively explore and act upon opportunities to enhance program outcomes and drive service improvements

Benefits and Perks:

• Opportunity to “make your mark”
• Generous Salary Packaging
• Flexible work arrangements (after initial orientation and onboarding)
• Potential assistance with short term accommodation (if moving to the area)
• Access to our free Employee Wellbeing Program

About Us

Colac Area Health (CAH) is a unique integrated health service comprising of over 500 employees, providing Acute Care, Aged Care, Community and Allied Health Services to a catchment population of approximately 30 000.  Situated in the Colac Otway Shire, one of the most picturesque Victorian municipalities that provides city conveniences with a country charm.

As an organisation, we celebrate our diversity and welcome all people regardless of ethnicity, faith, age, disability, culture, language, gender identity or sexual orientation. We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders as Australia’s First Peoples and as the traditional owners and custodians of the land on which we work. We pledge to provide inclusive and non-discriminatory services.

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