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Internal EOI - Acting Manager (Leave Relief)

Job No: FLO3499
Location: Hunter

Broaden your experience and gain valuable skills in a leave relief Manager position overseeing our Maitland, Muswellbrook and Taree teams!

This leave relief position is:

  • Closed-term full-time from 30 September 2024 to 25 October 2024
  • Working Monday to Friday
  • Flexibility to be based in Maitland, Muswellbrook or Taree
  • Level 6 on the Flourish Australia Enterprise Agreement (2018)

About the Role 

As a Manager with Flourish Australia, your role is to achieve Flourish Australia’s vision by providing a high quality and responsive recovery oriented service that best supports people with a lived experience of mental health issues to achieve their hopes and dreams.

Reporting directly to the Regional Manager, you will work with people who access Flourish Australia to achieve their full potential by getting the best out of your team. You will achieve this by working with integrity and in a professional manner with the people who access Flourish Australia, your team, and interested stakeholders.

Your main responsibilities will include:

  • Managing, developing and leading day-to-day service provision.
  • Providing leadership in all aspects of the operation of service.
  • Ensuring services are of a high standard and compliant with standards of quality practice.
  • Managing, developing and maintaining key partnerships with internal and external stakeholders.
  • Ensuring the programs and services you are responsible for operate according to budget.
  • Meeting all policy, contractual and legislative requirements and achieving good outcomes for the people who access our services.
  • Managing the fiscal, human and property resources of the service within the scope of the position.
  • Providing support to the team to enable personal growth by projecting a positive outlook, a sense of belonging, and social inclusiveness in the community.
  • Managing and expanding the services of the organisation in your area of responsibility.
  • Utilise good professional staff supervisory skills and effectively utilise staff and resources so people accessing our services receive a quality service.

For more information on what it means to be a Manager, please review the Position Description.

Selection Criteria

Essential:

  1. A relevant degree
  2. At least 3-years experience in a similar role
  3. Well-developed communication, negotiation, and advocacy skills.
  4. Demonstrated engagement, collaboration and negotiation skills, with the capability to build and maintain positive working relationships across multiple sectors with a range of organisations.
  5. Experience fostering and sustaining partnerships as well as ability to influence stakeholders at all organisational levels.
  6. Demonstrate understanding of the challenges faced by people with a lived experience of severe and persistent mental health issues and how providing a recovery oriented service is of benefit to people.
  7. Ability to use Microsoft Office Suite and ability to fully utilise the client information management system.
  8. Current Australian Driver’s Licence.

Desirable:

  1. A personal lived experience of a mental health issue.
  2. A current First Aid Certificate.

For further information, please contact Tim Whyte, Regional Manager. E: Tim.Whyte@flourishaustralia.org.au (please do not email applications).

How to Apply

To apply for this position, please complete the questions asked. You will then be required to attach a copy of your resume on the following page, we encourage you to have your resume up-to-date and available before you commence the application.

Please note that we may speak with your current Manager regarding your application. Please also ensure that the People and Culture team have all relevant certificates and training attendance recorded on your P&C file as this may be referenced as part of the selection process.

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