Employment Type: 12-month, fixed term position

Hours: Full time

Location: Support Services Office - Richmond

Upload with Application: Resume, cover letter

Contact: Monika Lancucki - Executive Director, Mission, Communication and Stakeholder Relations.

About the prospect

At Mercy Health, you'll become part of a proud history built on over 100 years of expertise, skill and care. As Group Director Mission & Pastoral Care, you'll use your expertise and leadership capacity to develop, coordinate, and deliver formation programs, and to ensure the identity and charism that inspires Mercy ministries today, and the adoption of Catholic Social Teachings is strengthened across the organisation.

What you'll bring

- Considerable experience in senior leadership roles in mission-based organisations
- Practical experience, knowledge and understanding of application of Catholic theology, social teaching principles and contemporary teachings of the Catholic Church.
- Well formed and active in the Catholic faith
- Practices with a high level of integrity and professionalism
- Excellent interpersonal and effective communication skills, both verbal and written
- Demonstrated leadership qualities
- Knowledge about contemporary health and aged care
- A sound understanding of organisational culture, practices, and issues
- Ability to establish and build trusted and effective working relationships and partnerships




- Commitment to the mission and values of Mercy Health and Catholic Health - this includes a requirement to be highly principled and embrace the values of Mercy Health
- Proven capability to provide ethics education and formation within the Catholic health and aged care context.

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.

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.

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