• Employment Type: 12-month, fixed term position
• Hours: Full time
• Location: Support Services Office - Richmond
  

Where there's life, there's Mercy.

Where there's care, there's You.

Through the battles and the breakthroughs, we're there. Where will you be?

For over a century, our incredible teams have provided care for people at every stage of life. Across our aged care homes, hospitals and research facilities, and across numerous cities and towns, we're on a journey to keep growing our impact for the next hundred years.

As a for-purpose organisation with over 10,000 dedicated, compassionate people, we continue to offer more services and deeper care than ever before. With Mercy, you'll have the chance to make an impact and gain experience that's hard to find elsewhere.

At Mercy Health, it's all about taking what we have and making it better.

To do that, we need you.

Join us at Mercy Health, and help our teams deliver even greater outcomes.

About the opportunity

At Mercy Health, you'll become part of a proud history built on over 100 years of expertise, skill and care. As Group Director Mission & Pastoral Care, you'll use your expertise and leadership capacity to develop, coordinate, and deliver formation programs, and to ensure the identity and charism that inspires Mercy ministries today, and the adoption of Catholic Social Teachings is strengthened across the organisation.

What you'll bring

It takes a special kind of person to work in healthcare or community services. If you are genuinely interested in helping others, then you'll find you can build something here and find your place in a team of 10,000 hearts.

To thrive in this role, you will have the following experience and skills:

Experience

• Considerable experience in senior leadership roles in mission-based organisations
• Practical experience, knowledge and understanding of application of Catholic theology, social teaching principles and contemporary teachings of the Catholic Church.

Competencies

• Well formed and active in the Catholic faith
• Practices with a high level of integrity and professionalism
• Excellent interpersonal and effective communication skills, both verbal and written
• Demonstrated leadership qualities
• Knowledge about contemporary health and aged care
• A sound understanding of organisational culture, practices, and issues
• Ability to establish and build trusted and effective working relationships and partnerships
• Commitment to the mission and values of Mercy Health and Catholic Health - this includes a requirement to be highly principled and embrace the values of Mercy Health
• Proven capability to provide ethics education and formation within the Catholic health and aged care context.

You will also be required to provide evidence of, or in the process of obtaining:

• A current Police Record Check

Ready to help us shape the future of healthcare?

Join us and make a meaningful difference in people's lives - and your career.

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Please contact us if you would like to find out more or communicate any requirements to ensure we provide you with a fair and equitable interview and selection process.

Contact: Monika Lancucki - Executive Director, Mission, Communication and Stakeholder Relations. [email protected] using the subject line: Group Director - Mission & Pastoral Care enquiry via EthicalJobs.

We acknowledge the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung peoples, traditional Custodians of the Land in which our Head Office is based, on traditional lands of the Kulin Nation and recognise their deep connections to the land, sea, and culture.

We extend this acknowledgment to the many Traditional Lands that we operate across Australia and pay our respects to Elders past and present.
The team at Mercy Health is as wonderfully diverse as the patients, residents, clients and communities we support. We're proud to be recognised as an Employer of Choice for Gender Equality by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA). Mercy Health strongly encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and people of all ages, sexualities, genders, abilities and cultural backgrounds.