Job Description

Join us as the Senior Group Manager, Allied Health

• Based at our Collins Street Office, Wurundjeri Country
• Full-time, Permanent role
• $136,571.31 + Super + Salary Packaging
• Applications close: 5pm, Friday 22 May 2026

Are you an experienced allied health leader ready to shape the future of disability and community services?

The Opportunity

We are seeking an experienced and values-driven Senior Group Manager, Allied Health to provide strategic and operational leadership across a diverse portfolio of multidisciplinary allied health services. including specialist and high - complexity programs such as the Bridges program.

This senior leadership role is accountable for service performance, clinical governance, workforce capability, financial sustainability and quality outcomes, ensuring people with disability and their families receive safe, inclusive and person‑centred supports.

Working in close partnership with the Director, Community Services and Allied Health and Clinical Practice Leads, you will play a pivotal role in shaping service models, strengthening integration and embedding contemporary best practice across the organisation.

About the Role

This role will play a critical leadership function in embedding contemporary best practice, strengthening integrated service delivery and ensuring services remain responsive to client needs, regulatory requirements and evolving sector expectations.

Key responsibilities will include (but are not limited to):

• Providing strategic and operational leadership across multidisciplinary allied health services
• Leading service innovation, integration and continuous improvement initiatives
• Driving service performance through effective planning, reporting and data-informed decision-making
• Ensuring compliance with clinical governance, quality and safeguarding frameworks, including NDIS Practice Standards
• Overseeing workforce planning, recruitment, performance management and capability development
• Managing divisional budgets, financial sustainability and service utilization outcomes
• Building strong partnerships with internal stakeholders, government, funders and sector agencies
• Leading a positive, inclusive and high-performing culture aligned with organisational values
• Identifying and managing operational and strategic risks to ensure safe and effective service delivery

Please note: this role will require travel between sites based on operational needs.

What you will bring

You are a collaborative, emotionally intelligent leader with a deep experience in allied health, disability and/or community services. You are committed to inclusion, cultural safety and trauma informed practice, and are motivated by improving outcomes for people with disability through high quality allied health services.

You will bring:

• Extensive senior leadership experience within allied health, disability or community services
• Demonstrated success leading multidisciplinary teams within complex service delivery environments
• Strong operational leadership capability with experience driving service quality, performance and continuous improvement
• Experience embedding clinical governance, risk management and safeguarding frameworks
• Proven ability to lead organisational change, service integration and workforce transformation initiatives
• Strong financial and business acumen, including budget management and service sustainability
• Excellent stakeholder engagement, communication and relationship management skills
• A collaborative and values-based leadership style with a commitment to inclusion, cultural safety and person-centred practice
• Demonstrated understanding of contemporary challenges and opportunities within the disability and allied health sectors

Qualifications and Requirements

• Bachelor level qualification as an Allied Health Professional
• Current professional registration with AHPRA or Speech Pathology Australia (SPA)
• Extensive postgraduate clinical experience
• Extensive management and leadership experience within disability and/or community services
• A current Working With Children Check and NDIS Worker Screening Check

Highly Desirable

• Formal qualification in Management or Leadership
• Experience working directly within the Allied Health sector

We Offer

• An attractive remuneration package with excellent salary packaging benefits
• Flexible and hybrid working arrangements
• A rewarding leadership career within a purpose-driven organisation
• The opportunity to shape and lead services within a newly integrated organisation
• A supportive executive leadership environment committed to innovation and continuous improvement
• Ongoing professional development and leadership opportunities
• The opportunity to positively impact the lives of people with disability, families and communities

Find out more about Working in Allied Health Team with Yooralla

Interested? Apply Now!

To find out more about this role or for a confidential discussion, please feel free to contact Megan Slattery, Director of Community Services and Allied Health via email Megan.Slattery@yooralla.com.au

Applications including a resume and a cover letter addressing the key selection criteria to be submitted by 5pm, Friday 22 May 2026.

We encourage applications from people with lived experience of disability. You'll receive adjustments and support throughout the whole process — from the application stage to starting in the workplace. If you require the position description in a different format or any accommodation or assistance during the application and interview stages please contact the person listed on the ad or alternatively email hr@yooralla.com.au

Berry Street Yooralla acknowledges Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islands People as the Traditional Custodians of the lands across Victoria where our services are located, and pay our respects to ancestors and Elders, past, present and future. Berry Street Yooralla is committed to honouring Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islands Peoples’ unique cultural and spiritual relationships to the land, waters and seas and their rich contribution to Berry Street Yooralla and our society.

Berry Street Yooralla is committed to being a child safe, child friendly and child empowering organisation. In everything we do we seek to protect children. We are committed to the cultural safety of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children; children from culturally and/or linguistically diverse backgrounds; children with a disability; children who identify as LGBTIQA+. We aim to ensure every individual is treated with dignity and respect regardless of their cultural background, ability, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, spirituality or religion.