Employment Type: Permanent, full-time

Location: Primary base at North Richmond office with hybrid working available

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Contact: Please contact Matt Claughton, Snr HR BP via email mclaughton@mercy.com.au for a copy of the position description and for any enquiries.

Where there’s life, there’s Mercy.

Where there’s care, there’s You.

Through the battles and the breakthroughs, we're there. Where will you be?

For over a century, our incredible teams have provided care for people at every stage of life. Across our aged care homes, hospitals and research facilities, and across numerous cities and towns, we’re on a journey to keep growing our impact for the next hundred years.

As a for-purpose organisation with over 10,000 dedicated, compassionate people, we continue to offer more services and deeper care than ever before. With Mercy, you’ll have the chance to make an impact and gain experience that’s hard to find elsewhere.

At Mercy Health, it’s all about taking what we have and making it better.

To do that, we need you.

Join us at Mercy Health, and help our teams deliver even greater outcomes.

About the opportunity

Reporting to the Chief People Officer, the Group Organisational Development & Diversity Manager leads the design and delivery of strategies, programs and initiatives that build organisational capability, strengthen performance, and create a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace.

The role is a member of the People, Learning & Culture (PLC) leadership team and champions cultural transformation, leadership development and employee experience, ensuring alignment to organisational mission, values and strategic goals.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Strategy: In partnership with the Chief People Officer and the PLC Leadership team, contribute to the development of Mercy Health’s People Strategy with a focus on Organisational Development and Diversity (OD&D) activities.

• Leadership: Lead and develop a high performing, unified OD&D team with the skills, commitment and motivation necessary to achieve the objectives of the People Strategy.

• ​Culture, engagement & wellbeing: Lead organisational-wide cultural change initiatives to bring our aspirational culture to life.

• Leadership & manager capability development: Oversee the update and implementation of the Leadership Capability Framework across Mercy Health to support the capability development of current and future leaders.

• Performance & workforce capability: Develop and lead programs and initiatives that address identified workforce capability gaps or areas for improvement.

• Diversity, inclusion & recognition: Lead Mercy Health’s diversity and inclusion strategy, ensuring alignment with mission, values and legislative obligations.

What you’ll bring

It takes a special kind of person to work in healthcare or community services. If you are genuinely interested in helping others, then you’ll find you can build something here and find your place in a team of 10,000 hearts.

To thrive in this role, you will have:

• Significant experience in Human Resources and/or Organisational Development and Diversity initiatives and projects within a complex health setting or aligned sector.

• Demonstrated experience leading cultural change and delivering major people projects in a complex, multi-site, values-based organisation.

• Proven experience in successfully managing senior level stakeholder relationships.

• Proven capability as an exceptional people and team leader.

• Knowledge of and willingness to engage with the Catholic Health sector.

• A track record as a values-based leader.

• A tertiary qualification in Human Resources, Organisational Psychology, or a related field.

You will also be required to provide evidence of, or in the process of obtaining:

• A current Police Record Check

Ready to help us shape the future of healthcare?

Join us and make a meaningful difference in people’s lives - and your career.

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Please contact us if you would like to find out more or communicate any requirements to ensure we provide you with a fair and equitable interview and selection process.

We acknowledge the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung peoples, traditional Custodians of the Land in which our Head Office is based, on traditional lands of the Kulin Nation and recognise their deep connections to the land, sea, and culture.

We extend this acknowledgment to the many Traditional Lands that we operate across Australia and pay our respects to Elders past and present.

The team at Mercy Health is as wonderfully diverse as the patients, residents, clients and communities we support. We’re proud to be recognised as an Employer of Choice for Gender Equality by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA). Mercy Health strongly encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and people of all ages, sexualities, genders, abilities and cultural backgrounds.