Job Title: Health Wellbeing Specialist Services Manager
About the Role
The Program Manager oversees departmental programs and initiatives. They provide guidance and strategic support throughout the program lifecycle, ensuring alignment with objectives across the department.
This role manages a diverse group of knowledge professionals in the Health, Wellbeing and Specialist Services Branch, part of a larger multi-disciplinary team. Responsibilities include managing workforces, programs, and initiatives such as school wellbeing, attendance, and engagement, inclusion and disabilities coordination, respectful relationships, and primary and secondary school nursing programs.
Key functions include participating in the area's leadership team, assisting the Executive Director and Senior Education Improvement Leaders to establish and promote local structures supporting health, wellbeing, and engagement of children and young people.
Key Skills and Qualifications
* People Management skills: clearly defining role expectations, monitoring performance, and supporting effective workforce planning practices.
* Influence and negotiation skills: building support for ideas, progressing work, and achieving outcomes.
* Stakeholder Management expertise: finding solutions to resolve issues with multiple stakeholders, working collaboratively and in partnership.
* Specialist Expertise for Regional Service Delivery in relation to health and wellbeing and supporting student outcomes.
* Leadership: participation within a leadership team to lead and progress areas of relevant work, working collaboratively across the area and regional teams.
Qualifications and Experience
Desirable: Registration at a relevant institute or association.
Essential: A relevant tertiary qualification in a health and wellbeing field, such as Nursing, Allied Health, Teaching or Special Education.
About the Group
Schools and Regional Services (SRS) offers central, regional, and local expertise to enhance learning and development outcomes. It comprises 17 areas within 4 regions, backed by 5 central office divisions, all collaborating to deliver improved outcomes for early childhood services, schools, communities, and learners.
Working with Us
We value diversity and inclusion in all forms - gender, religion, ethnicity, LGBTIQ+, disability, and neurodiversity. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.
How to Apply
Applicants are encouraged to include a curriculum vitae, a cover letter, and responses to the key selection criteria provided in the position description.