ABOUT MHPN

The Mental Health Professionals’ Network (MHPN) is a project funded by the Australian Government to support excellence in multidisciplinary mental healthcare.

MHPN aims to meet this purpose by:

• Connecting primary care practitioners to support improved delivery of multidisciplinary mental healthcare
• Advocating for best-practice contemporary multidisciplinary models of mental healthcare within primary care
• Supporting collaboration of all practitioners within mental healthcare to enable delivery of integrated, multidisciplinary care in a range of mental healthcare settings
• Supporting system change and policy development to improve multidisciplinary care.

MHPN aims to engage mental health and health practitioners in its two key programs: the National Networks Program and the Online Professional Development Program.

ABOUT THE ROLE

Positioned within the National Networks Program team and reporting to the Head of Networks, the Networks Program Team Leader will lead a team of Project Officers who are committed to supporting hundreds of networks of multidisciplinary mental health professionals through the flagship National Networks Program. This is a full-time, hybrid role. The key responsibilities of this role are to:

• Empower and coach the team to deliver a high-quality service to their caseload of networks and to consistently meet their targets to ensure the program achieves agreed KPIs
• Assist the team with the acquisition and retention of networks
• Ensure accurate and efficient record keeping and data entry of program activities is maintained
• Identify process improvements and efficiencies
• Identify and mitigate issues and escalate as required to the Executive Manager
• Work in collaboration with the Head of Networks on strategic initiatives to evaluate and grow the program
• Develop and maintain external stakeholder relationships to promote the program
• Prioritise projects and tasks efficiently and be adept at managing competing priorities

More about the position can be found in the attached Position Description.

Enquiries can be made to Rachael Heaton at [email protected] using the subject line: Networks Program Team Leader enquiry via EthicalJobs.