About Summit Health For 30 years Summit Health has been making a meaningful difference to the health and wellbeing of communities across the Adelaide Hills, Fleurieu Peninsula and Kangaroo Island. Through the provision of high-quality primary and allied health care services, they deliver the care and support people need at every stage of life.

As a purpose-driven, not-for-profit organisation, they're passionate about strengthening their communities, building strong local partnerships and creating opportunities for their people to grow and thrive.

About the role

Reporting directly to the General Manager and working closely with the CEO, the People and Culture Manager will play a pivotal role in shaping the workforce strategy and driving operational excellence across all aspects of People and Culture. This is a unique opportunity to lead the People and Culture function during an exciting period of growth and change.

Key responsibilities:

- Providing leadership across all People & Culture activities and initiatives
- Partnering with leaders to deliver best-practice employee relations and people management support
- Coaching managers in performance management, workplace relations and leadership effectiveness
- Overseeing recruitment and attraction activities across the organisation
- Leading workforce planning, retention and engagement initiatives
- Supporting organisational growth, change and transformation projects
- Ensuring compliance with employment legislation, Awards, Enterprise Agreements and workplace obligations
- Managing complex employee relations matters, investigations and grievances
- Driving policy development, workforce governance and continuous improvement initiatives
- Overseeing HR systems, reporting and people analytics
- Supporting learning and development initiatives to strengthen leadership capability and employee performance
- Contributing as a key member of the Corporate Services leadership team




- Acting as a trusted advisor to senior leaders while fostering strong relationships across all levels of the organisation.

About You

You are an experienced HR leader who can comfortably move between strategic thinking and hands-on delivery.

You thrive in growing organisations, enjoy building capability and systems, and are passionate about creating positive workplace cultures where people can perform at their best.

To be successful, you will bring:

- Proven experience in a People & Culture Manager, HR Manager or Senior HR Business Partner position
- Robust knowledge of Australian employment legislation, industrial relations and contemporary HR practices
- Experience establishing, improving or maturing people frameworks, systems and processes
- Demonstrated success partnering with leaders to drive people outcomes
- Strong employee relations and stakeholder management capability
- Excellent communication, influencing and coaching skills
- A proactive, solutions-focused and commercially minded approach
- Experience within healthcare, community services, aged care, disability, not-for-profit or comparable sectors will be highly regarded

What's on Offer?

- Make a genuine impact within a respected and growing healthcare organisation.
- Shape and influence the People & Culture function
- Work with a collaborative and supportive leadership team
- Meaningful work that contributes to better health outcomes within the community
- Ongoing organisational growth and future career opportunities
- Access a range of salary packaging benefits which exceed industry standards
- Convenient Mount Barker location with free parking

If you are passionate about building great workplace cultures and are looking for the opportunity to make your mark within a growing organisation, we would love to hear from you.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples are encouraged to apply.

To apply please click apply or call Denise Antoniou on 08 8216 3502 for a confidential discussion.

📌 People & Culture Manager (Mount Barker)
🏢 Summit Health, Mount Barker
📍 Mount Barker