General Manager - Mental Health, Family Violence, Community

11 / 04 / 2025

• Closing Date

02 / 05 / 2025

• Job Type

Permanent - Full Time

• Location

Melbourne - Northern Region

• Job Category

Management

• Great People. Great Careers. Excellent Healthcare

DPV Health is a leading healthcare service provider delivering a wide variety of clinical, community health and wellbeing services across Melbourne's northern growth corridor. DPV Health has been awarded the Premier's Primary Healthcare Service of the Year in 2023 & 2024.

Our People are the foundation of DPV Health; they are what make our organisation thrive and the ones who create meaningful change in people's lives. Over 700 professionals support and deliver excellent health care to our community at DPV Health. We are always looking for passionate, driven, great people to join our team and make a lasting impact. That is why we foster a workplace culture that is as rewarding as it is inclusive. We are committed to supporting Our People to lead fulfilling lives, no matter who they are, or where they are from - or where they are going.

Our workplace culture is committed to DPV Health values and celebrates workforce diversity reinforcing the positive approach we have to the way people contribute, communicate, engage and interact. Our People deserve to feel empowered and supported as they pursue their professional goals, learn new skills, and achieve meaningful milestones in their work. At DPV Health, we foster an environment that promotes greater growth, innovation, and collaboration, so you can feel elevated every day.

Our employee benefits, connect, recognise, and support Our People, acknowledging and valuing everyday contributions to the success and culture at DPV Health. We strive to ensure that Our People thrive at work and in all personal and professional pursuits. We invest in Our People, proudly offering a diverse range of opportunities including knowledge sharing, ongoing learning and development, leadership development, connectedness, and celebration; these are key pillars in our culture.

• General Manager Mental Health, Family Violence, Community
• Community based organisation, steeped in a values-driven culture
• Join a highly engaged, professional, and collaborative team
• Make a real and lasting impact in our community
• Greatness starts here.

Building on successes achieved to date, the position of General Manager, Mental Health, Family Violence and Community will oversee the expansion of these programs, ensuring that they meet current and future community needs, are high quality, culturally appropriate, competitive, innovative and sustainable.

Reporting to the Chief Operations Officer, this General Manager position is part of the Executive and will lead a committed team to excel, by providing strong leadership, effective and inspirational people management and productive stakeholder relationships. Key responsibilities include the development of the consolidated mental health services to become an industry acknowledged leader and overseeing the increasing suite of family violence programs. Integral to the role, will be the capacity to effectively predict and navigate the complex public policy environment to secure outstanding service development outcomes for DPVH and our community. Current direct reports are the Program Manager Trauma and Outreach (Mental Health and Community programs), Program Manager Family Violence and Aboriginal Access Worker.

Working as an integral part of our leadership team, you will :

Provide strategic and operational leadership to Mental Health, Family Violence & Outreach Program.

Advance strategic partnerships that are mutually beneficial and support DPV Health's strategic and operational objectives.

Implement fee-for-service models of care to increase access and complement public funded programs.

Ensure services and programs are delivered in compliance with the government, funding body and / or other agency requirements.

Ensure services are designed, provided, and evaluated with service users.

Implement change management and improvement strategies to optimise the client experience, maximise revenue, reduce expenditure and / or achieve efficiencies.

Implement technological solutions that offer innovative, competitive, and sustainable health and community services.

Lead further development of mental health through the implementation of psychosocial recovery frameworks, embedding the menu of options and sustaining evidence based on therapeutic interventions.

Provide strategic leadership and governance within the Orange door Network.

Continuing to develop and improve an evidence-based, sustainable approach for all services including Men's Behaviour Change.

Manage the achievement of annual revenue, expenses, wages, and net profit budgets.

Manage the successful achievement of all government and other agency activity targets.

Provide clear decision making and follow through to drive performance.

Implement and manage competitive fee for serv