We’re looking for an experienced and values-driven Executive Manager – Youth Mental Health to provide strategic leadership across our Brophy Youth division.

This senior executive role will lead a broad and important service area supporting young people across South West Victoria, including youth mental health, alcohol and other drug services, housing and homelessness, youth justice, wellbeing, early intervention, and headspace services in Warrnambool, Portland and Hamilton.

As part of Brophy’s Executive Leadership Team, this role will help shape organisational strategy, strengthen service quality and clinical governance, and lead sustainable outcomes for young people, families and communities across the region.

What we Offer

• Attractive Executive Manager salary package of $162,684 – $173,305 p.a. plus superannuation
• Awesome Not-for-Profit Salary Sacrificing options of up to $15,899 per FBT year
  Portable Long Service Leave from eligible organisations
• 6 weeks of Annual Leave per annum
• Personal use of Brophy vehicle
• Excellent Learning & Development opportunities
• Additional Public Holiday Day at Easter
• The opportunity to provide executive leadership across a highly regarded, place-based community organisation

About the Role

At Brophy, we believe young people deserve access to safe, responsive and connected support that helps them build stability, wellbeing, independence and positive futures.

As our Executive Manager – Youth Mental Health, you will provide executive leadership across Brophy Youth, ensuring services are integrated, sustainable, evidence-informed and responsive to community need.

This role is responsible for the leadership and oversight of a complex, multi-disciplinary and multi-site service system. You will lead Senior Managers and organisational leaders across youth mental health, alcohol and other drug, housing, homelessness, youth justice, wellbeing and early intervention services.

You will also hold key responsibility for service quality, clinical governance, practice leadership, financial sustainability, workforce capability, strategic partnerships, compliance, risk and continuous improvement.

As lead agency for headspace Warrnambool, headspace Portland and headspace Hamilton, Brophy holds responsibility for governance, contractual compliance, model integrity, clinical governance and service performance. This role will ensure those responsibilities are met while also strengthening Brophy Youth’s broader impact across the region.

This is a role for an experienced executive or senior leader who can balance strategy with people, governance with innovation, and service performance with genuine community impact.

You will contribute to whole-of-organisation decision-making as part of Brophy’s Executive Team and provide strategic advice to the Chief Executive Officer on risks, opportunities, reform, service development and future directions.

This is an Ongoing, Full-time position.

Location: Warrnambool / Portland / Hamilton, as required.

Your Skills

• Demonstrated executive or senior leadership experience leading a major business area, service system or organisational function within a complex community service, health, human service or related environment.
• Strong experience leading strategic direction, operational performance, workforce capability, financial sustainability and sustainable outcomes.
• Proven ability to contribute to organisational strategy, executive decision-making and organisational governance.
• Demonstrated experience leading clinical governance and practice within a multi-disciplinary workforce.
• Experience leading governance, risk, compliance and quality systems, including oversight of critical incidents, safeguarding matters and organisational accountability requirements.
• Highly developed stakeholder engagement and influencing skills, including experience working with government departments, funders, regulators, strategic partners and sector leaders.
• Strong financial, operational and workforce leadership capability, including leadership of senior leaders, management of organisational resources, organisational planning, service integration and change leadership.
• A demonstrated understanding of contemporary evidence-informed approaches relevant to youth mental health, health, housing, homelessness, justice, wellbeing and community service systems.
• A commitment to culturally safe, inclusive and psychologically healthy workplaces, including executive accountability for occupational health, safety and workforce wellbeing.

Your credentials

• Tertiary qualifications in Social Work, Psychology, Occupational Therapy, or Mental Health Nursing.
• Current registration with AHPRA or AASW.
• Tertiary qualifications or additional accredited training in business, management, leadership, governance, or a related discipline.
• A minimum of seven years’ experience in a leadership role within a similar not-for-profit, community services or health-based organisation.
• A current Driver’s Licence.
• A current Working With Children Check — Employee — Victoria.
• A current National Police Check.
• A current NDIS Worker Screening Check.

About Brophy

Brophy Family & Youth Services has supported children, young people, families and communities across South West Victoria for more than 50 years.

We are a place-based, for-purpose community organisation working alongside children, young people and families from sites in Warrnambool, Portland and Hamilton.

At Brophy, we believe in people and in their ability to create the life they want. Our team delivers more than 40 programs and services across areas including youth engagement, mental health, family violence, foster care, housing support, employment support and disability services.

Brophy Youth delivers a range of youth-focused mental health, alcohol and other drug, housing, homelessness, wellbeing, youth justice and early intervention services across South West Victoria. This includes headspace Warrnambool, headspace Portland, headspace Hamilton, Foyer Warrnambool, youth housing and homelessness services, youth justice programs, youth early intervention services and associated outreach, wellbeing and integrated support programs.

At Brophy, our Vision is not only focused externally on our community. We are just as passionate about our employees being meaningfully connected through their roles with us to create the life they want, and that as a workforce we achieve this together through innovation, healthy relationships and positively contributing to building an advantaged community.

Diversity and Inclusion at Brophy

Brophy is dedicated to fostering an inclusive environment that ensures safety and a sense of belonging for everyone. We embrace individuals of diverse races, ethnicities, genders, sexual orientations, ages, religions, abilities and nationalities, recognising the richness that varied experiences bring to our efforts in supporting individuals and building stronger communities.

Our commitment extends to actively listening, learning and evolving to become an accessible, inclusive and secure organisation for all, encompassing First Nations peoples, members of the LGBTIQA+ community, individuals with disabilities and those with culturally diverse backgrounds.

Brophy has zero tolerance for child abuse or harm and is unwavering in our commitment to child safety and wellbeing. We empower children and young people by valuing their voices and participation. At Brophy, young people will be supported to express their culture and enjoy their cultural rights.

For more information

For more information please contact Josh Hill, CEO on (03) 5561 8888 or [email protected] OR Workforce Engagement at [email protected] using the subject line: Executive Manager - Youth Mental Health - Warrnambool / Portland / Hamilton enquiry via EthicalJobs.

APPLICATIONS NOW OPEN!

We’re excited to hear from interested candidates and will be reviewing applications as they arrive.

To give yourself the best opportunity, we encourage you to apply as soon as possible, as suitable applicants may be invited to interview or offered the role during the recruitment process.

Please note that we are only able to consider candidates who have the right to work in Australia, and we are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this role.