• Generous salary packaging options to increase your take home pay
• Work for a multidisciplinary team with a diverse range of backgrounds
• Enjoy greater work-life balance with a monthly ADO

• Full Time, Fixed Term until June 2028
• Generous salary packaging options to increase your take home pay
• Work for a multidisciplinary team with a diverse range of backgrounds
• Enjoy greater work-life balance with a monthly ADO

We value lived and living experience (LLE) and encourage people with LLE to apply.

cohealth leads the way in reducing health and social inequity in partnership with people and the communities in which they live. Named Premier's Health Service of the Year (Primary) and the Supporting LGBTIQ+ Health Service at the Victorian Public Healthcare Awards, cohealth's 1000 staff demonstrate courage, leadership, innovation, and agility in their commitment to providing inclusive and culturally safe health services that protect the human rights of all people of all gender identities, sexualities, ages, cultural and linguistic backgrounds, faiths, and abilities.

Our inclusive workplace culture enables staff to bring their whole selves to work, where uniqueness is valued, and people experience a feeling of belonging. Our aim is for everyone to thrive in their role.

Lead innovative harm reduction services that improve the health and wellbeing of people who use drugs. Oversee multidisciplinary teams delivering outreach, counselling, primary health, and needle and syringe programs across Melbourne's Inner West and North.

Please refer to the Position Description to know more about the role.

• Provide strategic and operational leadership across Alcohol and Other Drug Response portfolio
• Lead the development, implementation and review of organisation-wide governance frameworks, policies and service standards
• Monitor service compliance with funding, accreditation, legislative, clinical governance and organisational requirements
• Build and maintain effective partnerships with the community, external and internal service providers and the Department of Health representatives

• Generous salary packaging of up to $15,900, plus an additional $2,650 for meals and entertainment, to help increase your take-home pay.
• Novated Leasing is available along with a significantly discounted fitness membership with unlimited access to over 290 facilities for you and your family.
• cohealth offers primary carers 14 weeks paid parental leave upon completion of only 6 months of continuous service
• Eligible co-workers will continue to receive superannuation on unpaid parental leave as well
• Counselling services for you and your immediate family through our EAP-Access provider, along with mindfulness, resilience, and wellbeing programs
• An inclusive workplace where diversity is valued and the work you do makes a meaningful difference

• Relevant tertiary qualification or equivalent relevant experience
• Demonstrated experience leading multidisciplinary teams in alcohol and other drug, community health, mental health, harm reduction or related human services settings
• Strong understanding of trauma-informed, person-centred, and culturally safe practice
• Highly developed communication, stakeholder engagement, partnership building and influencing skills

We will be conducting interviews for this role as applications are received.

If you have any questions regarding this role, please contact Andrea Fischer

All appointments are made subject to a satisfactory Nationally Coordinated Criminal History Check (NCCHC), a Working with Children Check (WWCC), complete a Pre-Employment Declaration Form, evidence of legal rights to work in Australia, and evidence of vaccination.

Successful applicants will be required to provide evidence of immunisation assessment including Influenza within 12 weeks of commencement B . This is in accordance with the Victorian Minister of Health Mandatory Vaccination Orders and legislated requirement for influenza vaccination.

cohealth in Melbourne is seeking a Leader to drive innovative harm reduction services across AOD, outreach, counselling, primary health, and needle and syringe programs in Melbourne's Inner West and North. You will oversee multidisciplinary teams and ensure governance and quality standards.

This fixed-term, full-time role offers a supportive, inclusive workplace. Applicants will need a relevant qualification or equivalent experience, strong leadership and stakeholder skills, and a commitment to