Employment Details
Employment Type: Permanent Full Time
Position Classification: Health Manager Level 4
Remuneration: $147,653 - $175,917 + Super
Hours Per Week: 38
Location: Broken Hill
Requisition ID: REQ450401
About the Role
* Key to your success is understanding our LHD footprint and the communities we serve.
* You will focus on fostering and building relationships with Aboriginal Communities, and work closely with key stakeholders, education, and training providers.
* This role provides an opportunity to grow and evolve, contributing to better Aboriginal health outcomes.
Responsibilities
* Provide effective leadership for the management of human, financial and material resources to achieve State and LHD priorities as set by the Director of MHDA.
* Participate as an effective member of the mental health directorate, contributing to strategic planning and decision making through collaboration with the wider team.
* Provide expert clinical leadership and support to managers across the district, ensuring systems that promote high level communication and cooperation between all teams to enhance continuity of care and improve health outcomes for consumers and their families.
* Ensure integration of mental health clinical services across service streams to enable effective patient flow, transfer of care and work through barriers to care with NGO providers.
Qualifications
* Possession of an appropriate tertiary qualification and/or relevant management experience.
* Demonstrated ability to provide strategic leadership and effective management in a complex, multidisciplinary, and evolving mental health care service environment.
* Demonstrated behaviours that reinforce the CORE values of the organization: Collaboration, Openness, Respect, Empowerment.
* Significant high level clinical experience and competency, and demonstrated ability working at a senior management level within a recognized mental health service.
* Highly developed interpersonal, negotiation and communication skills, and demonstrated ability to influence and achieve outcomes in areas of responsibility.
* Proven capability to lead service redesign and manage change.
* Demonstrated knowledge of the clinical governance framework as it applies to contemporary mental health practices and principles, and an understanding of the legislative requirements pertaining to mental health services.
* Valid unrestricted driver's licence for use in NSW/Australia and willingness to travel during employment.
Benefits
* 5 weeks paid annual leave per year
* 12 paid ADOs per year
* Fitness Passport
* Salary packaging (pay less tax) and up to $9k for living expenses + $2.6k for meal & entertainment and relocation
* Novated leasing
* Isolation & climate allowance
* Flexible work arrangements
* Professional development through frequent online and face‐to‐face learning opportunities
Application Closing Date
Applications Close: 11th of June 2026
Equal Opportunity Statement
At Far West Local Health District we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, where we don't just accept differences, but we honour and support them. We encourage people of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander background, people with a disability and people from the LGBTQI+ community to apply.
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