General Manager, Quality, Safeguarding and Governance

The Organisation

Mambourin has been supporting people with a disability for almost fifty years with the purpose of connecting people to every opportunity to help them get what they want out of life.

A growing organisation with over 200 staff that work across a range of hubs in Melbourne’s west, Mambourin provides a range of service choices to more than 400 people living with a disability including skills development, social and community participation, employment pathways and general disability support.

Culture and Benefits

• Professional development opportunities   
• Attractive NFP tax-effective salary packaging
• Access to employee assistance program and health and wellness offerings
• Collaborative, flexible, inclusive culture

The Role

Providing strategic advice to the CEO, senior leadership team and the board’s risk and audit subcommittee, you will lead and manage the organisation’s quality and risk framework and registers, responses to recommendations from the Disability Royal Commission, NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission reporting obligations, health and safety indicators, and other regulatory body requirements.

You’ll champion a whole of organisation approach to quality, safeguarding and governance and build capacity within service areas as you work across all hub sites to ensure consistency in monitoring, evaluation and improvement, and inspire staff to embrace best practice through mentoring and training.

Key responsibilities include:

• Review and adaptation of frameworks, practices and audit systems to align with best practice
• Administration of the quality management system
• Ensuring compliance with NDIS Practice Standards, regulations and NDIS legislative changes
• Reporting to the board on clinical governance, employee health and safety and NDIS quality indicators

Skills Required

You have senior leadership experience within either aged care, disability, community or health care, together with a track record of achieving team engagement and improvement across organisational quality, risk management and clinical governance. You are passionate about being a quality advocate and collaborating with stakeholders at all levels and you’re skilled in communicating and adapting according to the needs of the audience.
  
Additionally you have experience in:
  

• The disability sector and/or a sound understanding of people living with a disability
• Compliance and reporting on either Aged Care OR NDIS Practice Standards and audit
• Managing an organisation’s risk, vulnerable persons and continuous improvement registers
• Driving a contemporary quality management system and developing all reporting
• Ideally you are AHPRA registered, although not essential

Please note, the successful applicant will be required to hold a current NDIS worker screening check and COVID vaccination certificate – 3rd dose.

If you are driven to improve the lives of people living with a disability and have deep understanding of the aged care and/or disability sector standards and regulations, please click apply to submit your application. Alternatively, please call Jill Van Der Ross on 03 8080 8978 to discuss further.

Please note there is no formal closing date for this role, if you are interested, we would encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

NGO Recruitment values equitable recruitment practices and is committed to representing candidates reflective of the diverse organisations and communities we work with. We welcome and encourage applications from all backgrounds, ages, and identities, and are happy to adjust our recruitment process to support accessibility needs. If you are interested in this position and have most of the skills or experience we are looking for, please go ahead and apply.