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NDIS Psychosocial Workforce Project Manager

Mental Health Victoria Ltd
  • 16 months Fixed-term – Part-time contract – 30 hours per week

This position is being re-advertised, previous applicants are welcome to re-apply.

Mental Health Victoria (MHV) is seeking a part-time (30hrs per week) NDIS Psychosocial Workforce Project Manager to provide leadership and project management to MHV’s Psychosocial Workforce Team. Central to the role is the Project Management of two key workforce development projects. The first project is focussed on Victoria, has already commenced, and is fully staffed. This project completes in April 2021. The second project has a national focus and will commence in January 2020, running through to June 2021.

The NDIS Psychosocial Workforce Project Manager will lead MHV’s Psychosocial Workforce Team and the successful completion of the associated projects. This will include the application of project management principles and tools to the work; including management and coordination of project staff and effort.

The role will also play a key part in all aspects of stakeholder management and engagement. This will be particularly important with regards to the national project where a number of new stakeholders and relationships will need to be established and maintained.

From time to time the role will also provide advice internally in relation to the NDIS Program, and in particular the provision of services for people living with psychosocial disability, supporting MHV’s ongoing engagement in this area at a policy level.

About Mental Health Victoria

Mental Health Victoria is the peak body in Victoria for mental health. MHV is a not-for-profit, independent, organisation providing thought leadership and informed policy perspectives on mental health reform to ensure that people living with mental illness can access the treatment and support they need. Our membership is drawn from organisations that work within or intersect with the mental health system.

Mental Health Victoria specialises in public policy, workforce development and training, and services that build individual, organisational and community capacity.

About the Projects

  1. MHV NDIS Workforce Development (Psychosocial Capabilities) Project (2019-2021)
    This Victorian project is focussed on the development of a Capability Framework (completed) that will be translated into a workforce capability building program, including the design, production, and delivery of innovative, predominantly digital, professional development programs for workers in the NDIS providing supports for people living with psychosocial disability.
  2. NDIS Recovery-oriented Psychosocial Disability Support Project – Growing National Workforce Capability Development
    This project will identify and lead a market informed, national approach to professional development that increases the skills and knowledge base around Recovery-oriented Psychosocial Disability Support (ROPDS) across the NDIS.
    1. The project will identify emerging best practice and create national linkages to provide a modern context to ROPDS incorporating the experiences of service providers, staff and participants.
    2. The focus will be on working with providers and their workforces to develop a shared understanding of core competencies, professional development needs and a common approach to expand capacity and capability to support participants with psychosocial disabilities.
    3. This will be achieved collaboratively across jurisdictional boundaries, to identify gaps and map preferred methods for training frontline staff, focussing on NDIS Support Workers.
    4. Information gathered will be used to influence future national training packages/qualifications.

Key Responsibilities Include:

Project Management

  • Planning
  • Review and reporting
  • Budget management
  • Project Governance support including Project Control Groups

Project Delivery

  • Review, integration and synthesis of the different project components developed by individual project team members; towards delivering overall project outputs and deliverables

People/Team Management

  • Recruitment
  • Support and supervision
  • Coordination of effort and outputs to ensure cross-project alignment and consistency

Stakeholder Engagement and Management

  • Identification, engagement and relationship development with stakeholders

Selection criteria

Essential

  • Extensive project management experience
  • Knowledge of and experience in mental health service provision
  • People and team management experience
  • Stakeholder management experience
  • Strategic thinking and problem solving abilities

Desirable

  • Workforce development/learning and development experience (particularly digital learning)
  • Project management experience in national projects
  • Knowledge of and experience in NDIS psychosocial disability service provision, including:
    • Overall system; service delivery practice; provider organisations and/or workforces

Conditions

  • Fixed Term – Part-time Contract – immediate commencement for an 18 month period
  • 4 days / Total 30 hours per week – with scope to negotiate days/distribution. Some flexibility in days may be required at times.
  • Employment Agreement 2015-2018 – Level 7 - $92,972.88 - $96,857.80 per annum (38 Hours per week, pro rata 30 hours per week) plus 9.5% Superannuation
  • Salary Packaging is available
  • The position is based in Elsternwick Victoria, at Mental Health Victoria’s offices
  • The position may require occasional travel (and overnight stays) nationally

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