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• Women's and Children's Health Network, Health and Recovery, Trauma Safety Services (HaRTSS), Yarrow Place, North Adelaide 5006
•  Classification – AHP4 – Allied Health Professional L4 - $114,314.00 to $124,449.00 + Superannuation and Salary Sacrifice Benefits
• Full time - Term Contract (temporary until 12 Jun 2026)

About the Opportunity

We currently have an exciting opportunity to join the Yarrow Place team as a Manager, where you will be responsible for:

• Provide strategic and operational leadership for Yarrow Place Services, ensuring high-quality psycho-social, health, and medical services for youth and adults of all genders who have experienced sexual assault.
• Oversee the coordination of state-wide rape and sexual assault service delivery advice, policy, and program development.
• Develop and implement state-wide plans and strategies to address the needs of people who have experienced rape and sexual assault.
• Actively contribute to the HaRTSS leadership group through strategic planning, training, team building, and service improvement initiatives for the Division and the Sub Acute and Allied Health Division.

About You

To be successful in this role, you will have:

• Appropriate Allied Health degree or equivalent qualification which entitles registration with the appropriate board or gives eligibility for the membership of the professional association.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, particularly in relation to liaison, presentation of complex information and conflict resolution, including an ability to negotiate effectively, influence and relate well to people from a wide range of professional and cultural backgrounds. 
• Demonstrated high level ability to be innovative, creative and flexible, to apply evidence-based, professional and ethical approaches to analyse and resolve clinical problems, and to support organisational change management. 
• Extensive experience in organisational management, including delivering strategic and professional leadership, vision and management of a clinical multi-disciplinary service and significant resources, in order to maximise individual, team and service performance.
• Experience in working in the area of rape and sexual assault, gendered violence or other related service delivery areas, including developing, delivering, managing and evaluating new and innovative clinical and therapeutic services and programs. 

What WCHN Can Offer You

• Relocation financial support may be negotiated, subject to eligibility. Click here for details and contact the enquires person for further information.
• Salary package a range of benefits (including living expenses such as mortgage, rent, utility bills and groceries) up to $9,010 each FBT year + $2,650 for Meal Entertainment expenses each FBT year. Click here more information
• Access to Fitness Passport (workplace health and fitness program that gives you and your family access to a wide choice of gyms and pools across South Australia.)
• Access to generous leave provisions and professional development opportunities
• Support for you and your family via our Employee Assistance Program

About Us

The Women’s & Children’s Health Network is the state’s leading provider of best practice health care for women, babies, children and young people across South Australia.  We offer:

• specialist care for children with acute and chronic conditions
• state of the art maternity and obstetric care services
• community based services reaching hundreds of thousands of babies, children and young people, their families and communities across SA
• specialist programs including Mental Health, Child & Family Health services, Youth and Aboriginal Health services.

Join our patient centred team and contribute to providing South Australia’s women, babies, children and young people with the best health care through both within our hospital or via our many and varied community services and programs.

Our values of Compassion, Respect, Equity, Accountability and working Together for Excellence or CREATE Together represent who we are as a Network.

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Special Conditions

To find out more about this role, including key selection criteria, all special conditions and minimum requirements, please click on the attached role description and also review our document checklists below.

Immunisation Requirements Checklist

Applicant Documents Checklist

Application Instructions

You will be required to attach a 1-2 page cover letter addressing the key selection criteria of the role and a current résumé/curriculum vitae prior to clicking 'Submit Application'. It is recommended to allow enough time to complete the whole application as the system times out after one hour of inactivity.

Other Important Information

The South Australian public sector promotes diversity and flexible ways of working part-time.  Applicants are encouraged to discuss the flexible working arrangements for this role.

Want further information on applying and winning this role, go to our SA Health Careers Site for the Australian Applicant Guide or if you are an international applicant, check out the International Application Guide.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants are encouraged to apply.

Enquiries

Tonggo Simanjuntak, Executive Assistant to Sarah Cooper - Director of HaRTSS, Phone: 1800 817 421, E-mail:  Tonggo.Simanjuntak@sa.gov.au

Application Closing Date: Sunday 22^nd June 2025 – 11:55pm

Useful Links

 AHP4 - Yarrow Place - Manager - Role Description.pdf