Program Manager – Healthy Ageing at Home
- Box Hill & Eltham locations with Hybrid Working options
- Competitive salary including salary packaging
- Permanent full time position
Who are we?
healthAbility, as the name suggests, plays a unique and valuable role in the health system. We work to address the root causes of vulnerability, prevent disease and promote lifelong health outcomes, empowering people in our community to live their best life.
Our role is also supporting people to self-manage long-term health conditions, such as diabetes and mental health challenges, with multidisciplinary teams delivering community-based programs in a comfortable setting. We also support people, including older people and people with disability, to stay living at home longer and to live well in their community.
Our broad range of primary health services, care management and in home and community support services can be tailored to an individual’s needs and with major hubs in Box Hill and Eltham, these services can be delivered locally, in the Eastern and North Eastern suburbs of Melbourne.
Why work with us?
Although our clients are at the heart of what we do and we strive to positively impact our communities and those who need it most, the wellbeing of our employees is just as important.
When joining healthAbility’s supportive, kind, caring and ethical culture, you are welcomed by multi-disciplinary teams passionate about the health and wellbeing of clients and communities, from prevention through to specialist care, and passionate about continually learning and building on their areas of expertise. We embrace this passion and are values driven, offering careers with meaning and environments that are flexible, evolving, creative and connected.
healthability is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We promote a workplace that actively seeks to include, welcome and value unique contributions of all people. This means we encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, people with disabilities, LGBTIQ+ and from culturally diverse backgrounds to apply for this job, with age being no barrier.
The opportunity:
We are looking for a Program Manager to join our supportive and professional multidisciplinary Home Care Services teams in a full time capacity.
The Program Manager is responsible for the day-to-day operations and strategic planning and implementation of a range of services within a multi-disciplinary and community focused team including:
- In home community services
- Access and support programs and services
- The Home Care Package Program
- Linkages
- Care Finder program
Our ideal candidate:
- High level skills and experience in managing high performing teams that deliver efficient and effective services.
- A solid understanding of the Aged Care Act, and Home-care services and management and quality and safeguarding standards
- Demonstrated ability to positively lead a team through change.
- Demonstrated skills in business development, including the achievement of identified targets and budget development and management.
- Strong engagement and interpersonal skills with the demonstrated capacity to establish, manage and maintain internal and external stakeholder relationships.
- Demonstrated problem solving, negotiation, conflict resolution and mediation skills.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to analyse measures and prepare reports.
- Demonstrated ability in the planning, implementation and evaluation of services and programs.
- Demonstrated ability to be flexible, responsive to change with a commitment to ongoing learning.
- Extensive experience working in health or a community- based setting
Please apply here by submitting a cover letter addressing the key selection criteria with your CV. Thank you for your time and interest and please note, only shortlisted applicants will be contacted directly.
Any enquiries can be made to Amanda Allen at amanda.allen@halthability.org.au
Employment with healthAbility is conditional upon being fully vaccinated against COVID-19 or medically exempt and providing satisfactory evidence of the same.
See the video to hear from our employees why this opportunity is much more than a job and how healthAbility offers careers with meaning.
