• Outstanding career opportunity in a high-profile and transformational project
• Make a significant contribution to the delivery of the state's Forensic mental health services
• Will suit a project manager with excellent organisational skills and ideally with a health or people and culture professional background
• Full time contract to July 2024, circa $125,245p.a (negotiation based on skills & experience) + super
• Great salary packaging conditions and leave entitlements including monthly RDO
• Join a great team, lead significant work, enhance your career - based in Fairfield

Forensic Mental Health is a specialist area within the mental health service system. The services provided by Forensicare address the needs of offenders experiencing mental health issues, the mental health sector, the justice sector and the general community.

These services are delivered through three streams, inpatient services at Thomas Embling Hospital, community services through the Community Forensic Mental Health Service and prison-based services at several locations. This position will be based at the Thomas Embling Hospital in Fairfield and will be required to work across all Forensicare sites.

About the role

As part of the 2021/22 state budget the Victorian Government is investing $349.6 million to deliver an additional 82 beds at the Thomas Embling Hospital, to include a 34-bed women’s precinct and a 48-bed medium secure men’s precinct. Concurrently Forensicare has recently launched its new model of care and service plan which demonstrates how Forensicare will deliver best practice mental health care and treatment for consumers. The expansion is currently scheduled for completion in mid-2024

Forensicare is seeking a strategic project manager to lead workforce planning for the Thomas Embling Hospital Bed Expansion Project. This role will suit a methodical and strategic project manager that has a health or people and culture background and with organisational development experience. The role provides the opportunity to play a leading role in a once-in-a-generation project and deliver real change in a critical time in the development of mental health services in Victoria. The role also offers a supportive, multi-disciplinary team environment, option for flexible working arrangements and generous salary packaging.

Our Ideal Candidate

• A dynamic and motivated project manager with a health or people and culture background
• An innovative individual with a track record in change and organisational development
• Highly developed interpersonal and negotiation skills
• Solutions focused and goal oriented

What we offer

We value our staff and provide a range of employee benefits including:

• Great salary packaging conditions
• Excellent leave entitlements
• Post-graduate scholarship programs
• Ongoing training and full orientation
• Comprehensive Health and Wellbeing Programs including Employee Assistance Programs

This position is subject to a Police Check.

A culture where people matter

• Excellent supervision and investment in the skill development of managers and supervisors
• Celebration and reward for good performance, through employee recognition
• A leading, multi-faceted approach to safety, with unparalleled strategic, practical, individualised and team-based supports to minimise risks and fear and maximise safety and security, underpinned by our workplace health and safety strategy
• Access to an employee assistance program – an external, confidential, self-referral employee wellbeing program, for personal or work-related matters
• A mental health and wellbeing program providing psychological support, peer support and critical incidence response programs, as needed

For more information on employee benefits visit https://www.forensicare.vic.gov.au/careers/employee-benefits.

Successful applicants will be required to provide evidence of COVID-19 Vaccination prior to working at a Forensicare site.

Forensicare is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to attracting and developing a diverse workforce which reflects the community we serve. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people who identify as LGBTQI, people with a lived experience of disability, as well as people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.

Forensicare values: responsiveness, integrity, impartiality, accountability, respect and leadership; and promotes behaviours that are consistent with these values at all times.