About your New Career

• Employment Type: Temporary Full Time (38 hours per week) or Temporary Part Time (minimum 32 hours per week) up to June 2026
• Position Classification: Health Manager Level 3
• Remuneration: $61.95 - $70.38 per hour + annual leave loading + 11.5% Superannuation
• Location: Croydon Health Centre
• Requisition ID: REQ524163

Where you will be based

Sydney Local Health District’s Community Health Centres have a long and proud history of delivering care in the community including prevention, early intervention, assessment, treatment, health maintenance and continuing care services designed to improve and support the health and wellbeing of individuals and communities.

You will be based at Croydon Health Centre.

About the Opportunity

The Program Manager, Adult Survivors Program, will be responsible for overarching program leadership, strategic management, implementation, governance, business planning, risk and budget management, stakeholder engagement and coordination and overseeing the development of a sustainable local model of care in alignment with statewide requirements of NSW Health’s new Adult Survivors Program – a specialist integrated program for adult survivors of child sexual abuse with complex needs.

The Adult Survivors Program is a significant reform initiative being implemented by NSW Health in response to findings from the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. The program aims to improve outcomes for adult survivors of child sexual abuse, with a particular focus on survivors of complex trauma with mental health and alcohol and other drug support needs.

The program model takes a hybrid strategic-clinical approach. This role will work in close partnership with the Clinical Coordinator, Adult Survivors Program, to ensure effective and sustainable local implementation of this innovative new program. The Program Manager, Adult Survivors Program, will work from a strengths-based, family-centred, culturally appropriate and trauma-informed approach.

This role will be required to recruit, coach, mentor and performance develop identified staff as well as manage delegated financial responsibilities.

This role will provide advanced leadership and high-quality project management to ensure that the objectives of this innovative new integrated program are met. This role will not provide direct services to clients.

Find out more about the statewide program and access the pilot project evaluation report on the NSW Health website here.

For more information, please view the Position Description.

The Ideal Candidate is someone who has

• Appropriate tertiary qualifications and experience in a health related field, or demonstrated equivalent relevant professional experience.
• Strong leadership skills and ability to work autonomously in culturally safe and inclusive ways, to enhance staff performance, influence workplace culture, and lead change in services/programs working with diverse populations with complex needs and/or additional vulnerabilities.
• A current NSW Driver's Licence (P2 Licence acceptable) and willingness to travel across NSW to meet the demands of the position.

Benefits and Perks!

• Allocated Day Off each month - for full time employees only.
• Opportunity for extra tax savings through Salary Packaging up to $9,009, Novated Car Leasing, meal entertainment allowance up to $2,650. For more information, please visit SalaryPackagingPlus.
• Paid parental leave & annual leave loading.
• Access to free courses, qualification and coaching via Sydney Education.
• Health & Wellbeing: discounted Fitness Passport, free nutrition and wellness resources from qualified professionals, access to confidential EAP counselling for staff and their families and yearly flu shots etc.

For more information about the benefits, please visit SLHD Benefits.

About working for SLHD

This is a Category A position. To be employed by NSW Health you are required to provide evidence of vaccination to comply with the NSW Health Occupational Assessment, Screening & Vaccination against Specified Infectious Diseases Policy (PD2024_015).

SLHD is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing a working environment that embraces and values diversity and inclusion. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and people with disability are encouraged to apply for all internal and externally advertised positions. If you require assistance, please advise the contact person at the time of your application.

Stepping Up aims to assist Aboriginal job applicants by providing information about applying for roles within NSW Health. For more information, please visit: https://www.steppingup.health.nsw.gov.au/.

Sydney Local Health District is committed to implementing the Child Safe Standards.

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For enquiries, please contact Renee Lovell on 0436 606 703 or via email at [email protected] using the subject line: Program Manager - Adult Survivors Program enquiry via EthicalJobs.

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