Senior Manager

At Wellways, we celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued, respected and empowered to contribute. We warmly welcome applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people with lived experience of mental health challenges or disability, people from multicultural backgrounds, and people who identify as LGBTIQA+. We recognise that diverse experiences and perspectives strengthen our workforce and the communities we support.

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• Regional leadership: Build strong local leadership and community connection across a diverse and geographically dispersed region.
  
• Strategic impact: Shape service development, innovation and growth in response to emerging community needs and opportunities.
  
• Permanent, full-time opportunity with access to salary packaging benefits and leave loading
  

About Us

At Wellways, we work alongside people, families and communities to create an inclusive society where everyone can imagine and achieve their best life. Our people are the heart of everything we do and we are committed to supporting their safety, health and wellbeing every day.

About the Opportunity

As Senior Manager Western Victoria, you will provide strategic and operational leadership across a diverse portfolio of mental health and wellbeing services.

You will translate organisational priorities into strong service, people and community outcomes, ensuring services respond to the distinct needs of local communities. Experience in the mental health, community services, health or broader human services sector will support your ability to effectively lead this portfolio.

Reporting to the General Manager, you will be a highly visible and connected leader, building trusted relationships with government, community, health and mental health partners. You will foster collaboration and shared purpose across a geographically dispersed portfolio, strengthening connections between services, teams and communities.

This is an opportunity to lead with purpose across a diverse and evolving region. With services including psychosocial supports, PARCs, youth residential services and Local Mental Health and Wellbeing Services, you will bring Wellways’ strategy to life through strong local leadership, service excellence and integrated responses to community need. You will strengthen partnerships and identify opportunities for service development, innovation and growth.

You will champion lived and living experience, co-production and participant voice, ensuring the people we support are central to service design, decision-making and continuous improvement. You will lead through change and transformation, supporting leaders and teams to navigate complexity, build capability and deliver meaningful outcomes.

With stewardship of financial performance, governance, risk and resources, you will support sustainable, high-quality services and foster a culture of accountability, wellbeing, inclusion, innovation and continuous improvement.

You can be based at one of Wellways’ service locations across the region, with regular travel and a strong presence across Ballarat, Geelong and the south-west essential. Your visibility will support strong leadership, local understanding and meaningful connections with participants, families, carers and communities.

About You

You are an experienced, values-led leader who combines strategic thinking with strong operational focus. You bring a proven track record leading complex services, developing capable leaders and teams, and building partnerships that deliver positive outcomes for participants and communities. Experience in the mental health, community services, health or broader human services sector will support your ability to effectively lead this portfolio.

You are confident leading across a geographically dispersed region, creating connection and shared purpose while recognising the different needs and opportunities of metropolitan, regional and rural communities. You understand the importance of visible leadership and strong relationships across services and locations.

You bring experience translating strategy into action, driving service improvement and identifying opportunities for growth, innovation and service development. You are comfortable navigating change and responding to emerging community and sector needs, connecting local opportunities to organisational priorities.

You build effective relationships with government, health, community and sector stakeholders and use strong communication, influence and collaboration to achieve shared outcomes. You unders