Regional Manager – ACT & Southern Tablelands Lead Transformation. Strengthen Communities. Heart Your Work.
It’s a rare opportunity to lead meaningful change across the ACT and Southern Tablelands region — driving service excellence, workforce capability and sustainable growth in one of Australia’s most important healthcare and community corridors.
At Aruma, we support more than 5,000 people with disability to live the life they choose. As our Home & Living portfolio continues to expand — including new and evolving Specialist Disability Accommodation (SDA) partnerships — we’re looking for an experienced Regional Manager who can lead with clinical insight, operational discipline and genuine heart, while maintaining strong, hands‑on connection to the region.
This role suits a leader who understands the nuance of delivering complex services across ACT and Southern Tablelands communities and values being visible, accessible and deeply connected to the people and partners they support.
If you’re a senior leader from healthcare, disability, aged care, mental health, allied health, rehabilitation or broader community services — and you’ve led geographically dispersed teams through growth, reform or transformation — this could be the most meaningful leadership chapter of your career.
We strongly encourage applications from people with disability, people with lived experience of disability (including caring roles), and people from diverse cultural and community backgrounds. Lived experience is leadership strength at Aruma.
This role is Permanent Full Time | ACT & Southern Tablelands
Why This Role Matters The ACT and Southern Tablelands region is evolving rapidly. Demand for high-quality disability supports, complex care services and accessible housing continues to grow across metropolitan, regional and rural communities.
You will lead a diverse, multi-site Home & Living portfolio across the region, supporting experienced Service Managers while driving:
Deep, trusted relationships with ACT and Southern Tablelands healthcare providers, hospitals, allied health professionals and community stakeholders
Regional workforce stability, clinical capability and leadership uplift
Delivery of safe, high-quality, person-centred supports aligned to NDIS Practice Standards
Strong safeguarding, governance and compliance outcomes
Integration of new services, complex supports and SDA partnerships
Strategic relationships with healthcare providers, hospitals, allied health professionals and community stakeholders
Sustainable financial performance, including full P&L accountability
Regional growth, service innovation and local community engagement
This is leadership at scale — balancing people, performance and purpose across a highly regulated healthcare and human services environment.
What Success Looks Like In your first 12–18 months, you will have:
Built a confident, capable and stable regional leadership team
Strengthened workforce engagement, retention and capability across the region
Successfully integrated new services and housing partnerships
Elevated quality, safeguarding and clinical governance outcomes
Increased customer satisfaction and strengthened regional reputation
Delivered measurable portfolio growth and improved operational performance
Become a trusted regional leader across healthcare, disability and community networks
You’ll Be a Strong Fit If You Bring
7+ years leading geographically dispersed teams within healthcare, disability, aged care, mental health or regulated community services
Proven experience delivering operational, workforce or service transformation
Experience managing growth, complex service delivery or multi-site operations
Strong commercial acumen, including budget management and P&L oversight
Understanding of complex supports, SIL/SDA environments or integrated care models
Confidence partnering with healthcare professionals, government stakeholders and external providers
Calm, values-driven leadership through complexity, change and competing priorities
Qualifications in nursing, allied health, disability, human services, health management or related disciplines are highly regarded.
Closing Date: 05/06/2026
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