Coordinator, Mental Health and AOD

The Opportunity

Are you inspired to become an agent of change in Mental Health and AOD services?

Working in our high-impact Mental Health and AOD team, this role actively contributes to our goal of strengthening the capacity of the primary mental health service system and improving equitable access to services.

Collaborating with your team and working closely with service providers, you’ll play an integral role in the design, procurement, evaluation and ongoing management of commissioned services.

Key Accountabilities

Utilise your stakeholder relationship management skills to support the design and delivery of delegated MHAOD commissioned activities.

Apply analytical skills to make timely and informed decisions, ensuring forward planning is aligned to strategic plans and needs assessments.

Manage and report on the performance of assigned commissioned activities in line with relevant governance, performance and reporting and enterprise risk frameworks.

Adopt a continuous improvement mindset to navigate complex systems and processes.

Draft procurement plans, executive briefings, activity work plans, and performance reports.

Apply sector knowledge to influence performance outcomes for commissioned service stakeholders.

About You

Whilst clinical experience in Mental Health and AOD is not essential, you will have experience in health or a similar field. This will be accompanied by excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.

Our ideal candidate is an agile thinker, team player, and problem solver who can apply a continuous improvement lens to their work.

Key Capabilities

Tertiary level qualification in health, social sciences or a related field and/or a minimum five years’ experience in a relevant field, ideally withing the Australian Health or Social Services sector.

Ability to establish and maintain contractual relationships with people at all levels and forge useful and effective partnerships with people across business areas, functions and organisations.

Ability to analyse performance, financial and other data, and apply sector knowledge to support continuous quality improvements.

Effective communicator skilled in writing reports, briefings and procurement plans to support decision making.

A connection with the Murray PHN catchment, our values and vision.

How to Apply

Please submit a resume and cover letter outlining your skills in relation to the key capabilities.

We will be reviewing applications as they are received with a view to commencing interviews on the 13th of June, with the successful candidate joining us in early July.

Applications close: Tuesday June 10 at 11.59pm

Recruitment enquiries: Deepa Patel, Manager – Mental Health and Wellbeing Commissioning, via [email protected]

To ensure our recruitment process is accessible and barrier-free, applicants can request adjustments at any stage by contacting Cathryn Selvon, Coordinator Employee Inclusion and Recruitment, via email [email protected]

Successful candidates will be required to provide two professional references, a recent criminal history check and verification of any relevant qualification. Please note that people with criminal records are not automatically precluded from consideration. Each application will be considered on its merits.

About Murray PHN

At Murray PHN, five organisational values - Leadership, Collaboration, Respect, Accountability, and Innovation - drive the way we do business, the way we influence the health system and the way we interact with each other and our stakeholders.

As a not-for-profit organisation, and one of six Primary Health Networks (PHNs) in Victoria and 31 across Australia, we work with rural and regional services and national agencies to not only support health reform, but to develop locally relevant models of care, workforce solutions and to pilot innovative programs.

Whether it's supporting individuals with chronic conditions, enhancing mental health services, or reducing avoidable hospital stays, our focus is commissioning primary healthcare services that are accessible, high-quality, culturally responsive, sustainable, and importantly meet population needs and prevent disease.

What We Offer

flexible working arrangements, such as variable start and finish times and balanced work from home and office options

the opportunity to maximise take-home pay through generous salary packaging – up to $15,900 on everyday living expenses and $2,650 towards meal entertainment each year.

access to an employee assistance program with free counselling

access to professional and personal development – 2 days study leave per year

up to 15 personal leave days annually, including “Life Leave” – two days per year for you to take as you need, to do what you need

Cultural, ceremonial and religious leave

Inclusion Statement

Murray PHN is committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace and developing a workplace culture that is safe and accessible, respectful, fosters inclusiveness, promotes diversity and embraces the unique skills and qualities of all our employees. We are committed to creating genuine employment opportunities for everyone and welcome applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disability, LGBTIQA+, neurodiverse people and people from diverse cultural backgrounds.

At Murray PHN, we aspire to be an anti-racist organisation, embedding cultural humility as a daily practice, to improve health outcomes and health equity in our communities. We recognise cultural humility as a life-long commitment to self-reflection, personal growth and redressing power imbalances in our society.

Murray PHN acknowledges its catchment crosses over many unceded First Nations Countries, following the Dhelkunya Yaluk (Healing River). We pay our respects and give thanks to the Ancestors, Elders and Young people for their nurturing, protection and caregiving of these sacred lands and waterways, acknowledging their continuing cultural, spiritual and educational practices.