Job description
Agency Department of Health Work unit Children's Development Team
Job title Manager - Children's Development Team Designation Senior Professional Officer 1
Job type Full time Duration Fixed to 08/10/2027
Salary $128,551 - $143,611 Location Alice Springs
Position number 4377 RTF Closing 18/02/2026
Contact officer Michelle Foley on or
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APPLICATIONS MUST INCLUDE A ONE-PAGE SUMMARY ABOUT YOU, A DETAILED RESUME AND COPIES OF YOUR TERTIARY
QUALIFICATIONS.
Information for applicants – inclusion and diversity and Special Measures recruitment plans
The NTPS values diversity. The NTPS encourages people from all diversity groups to apply for vacancies and accommodates people with
disability by making reasonable workplace adjustments. If you require an adjustment for the recruitment process or job, please discuss
this with the contact officer. For more information about applying for this position and the merit process, go to the OCPE website.
Aboriginal applicants will be granted priority consideration for this vacancy. For more information on Special Measures plans, go to the
OCPE website.
Primary objective
Provide effective leadership and resource management to ensure high quality and culturally appropriate paediatric community allied health
services and accreditation standards in the Central Australia and Barkly regions.
Key duties and responsibilities
1. Provide leadership, financial and human resource management in the development, implementation and evaluation of high quality,
evidence-based and culturally appropriate paediatric community allied health services.
1. Establish regular communication channels, monitor service demands and coordinate team strategies and service delivery models to
achieve program policy directions, standards and outcomes including accreditation requirements.
1. Provide senior level advice to the Senior Manager, Central Australia on issues impacting the client group.
2. Determine service provision in line with relevant legislation, policy and service standards including developing collaborative
partnerships, networks and alliances with interstate, intrastate and non-government agencies.
1. Follow defined service quality standards, work health and safety policies and procedures relating to the work being undertaken to
ensure high quality, safe services and workplaces.
1. Foster a positive workplace culture through exemplary leadership practices and role modelling behaviour.
Selection criteria
Essential
1. Tertiary qualification in an Allied Health discipline with eligibility for registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation
Agency where applicable, and/or eligibility for membership of the relevant professional association.
1. Demonstrated leadership and management experience of a multidisciplinary team with proven skills and knowledge of financial and
human resource management, change management, strategic planning and organisational skills in the workplace.
1. High-level knowledge of contemporary practice and issues associated with best practice paediatric community allied health services,
including a working knowledge of relevant legislation applicable to the Northern Territory.
1. Demonstrated experience in program development relating to early childhood intervention and/or school aged services.
2. Demonstrated high level interpersonal and communication skills in a team setting, operating in a culturally and socially diverse
environment.
1. Demonstrated high level analytical, research, problem-solving and risk management skills.
2. A well-developed understanding of the impact of cross-cultural issues, particularly for people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
descent, on community allied health service provision.
1. Current Northern Territory Driver's 'C' Class Licence or ability to obtain and ability and willingness to travel by car, 4WD vehicle and/or
light aircraft to visit and work in rural and remote communities for periods of up to 5-days at a time.
Desirable
1. Postgraduate qualification in public health, management or social sciences discipline.
Further information
Positions may be subject to pre-employment checks such as immunisation requirements, working with children clearance notice and
criminal history checks. A criminal history will not exclude an applicant from this position unless it is a relevant criminal history. For
immunisation requirements - Category A (direct contact with blood or body substances) or Category B (indirect contact with blood or body
substances), check with contact person for requirements.
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