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People and Culture Manager


Are you a passionate and skilled Human Resources Leader looking for the opportunity to make a meaningful contribution in the disability services sector? 

This exciting opening, due to a promotion within our team, offers a negotiable salary alongside attractive benefits.

  • Salary packaging to $15,900 | Fitness Passport

  • Diversity and Inclusion 

  • Hybrid work environment

  • Location Negotiable  Dubbo (preferred), Orange, Bathurst or Wagga Wagga. Some travel will be required.


About the role

The People and Culture Manager leads a team of three, driving proactive strategies and managing services encompassing misconduct, performance, return to work, employee engagement  and retention. This role is also key to the successful delivery of organisational change projects.


About us
Westhaven is and will continue to be the provider of choice for disability support services and accommodation across regional NSW. Westhaven provides client-centric, high-quality programs and activities that provide whole-of-life support for people with disability, including offering houses that are homes, enabling choice and control and supporting clients to live life the way they choose.


Key responsibilities:

  • Coach, guide and support management and team with people management matters

  • Employee relations and engagement

  • Manage misconduct, performance and return to work at Westhaven including reporting on trends, and proactive approaches to create a safe and respectful work environment 

  • Retention and Engagement Strategies, Diversity and inclusion strategies and Leadership development

  • Policy, procedure and practices development and review

To be at the forefront of this opportunity you will have:

Knowledge

  • Contemporary knowledge of human resource organisational policies and practices

  • Knowledge of current employment legislation

  • Knowledge and demonstrated ability in sound case and investigation management

 

Skills

  • Advanced problem solving capabilities, confidence and emotional intelligence that enable you to negotiate and resolve complex situations

  • Professional relationship management and influencing skills, with a service oriented outlook

  • Highly developed organisational skills and capacity to prioritise competing demands

  • Highly developed interpersonal communication including both written and oral skills

  • Effective conflict resolution skills, negotiation, mediation and decision-making skills

 

Experience

  • Willingness to be a team player, with a high attention to detail and systems oriented approach to work

  • The ability to interact positively at all levels, including dealing professionally with managers and staff from a broad range of educational and cultural backgrounds.

  • Experience in a highly regulated environment such as disability, aged care or health would be highly regarded.


Essential requirements of the role:

  • A current NSW Driver’s licence

  • The ability to obtain and maintain a paid Working with Children Check (WWCC)

  • The ability to obtain and maintain a National Disability Insurance Scheme Workers Check (NDISWC)

About applying:
Please submit your CV and a cover letter addressing your abilities to undertake the key responsibilities of this role.


We encourage diversity and inclusion:
Westhaven is passionate about social justice and diversity and is committed to being an EEO employer. We embrace diversity in our workforce and encourage applications from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, including those from Aboriginal, Torres Strait Island heritage and people with lived experience of disability.

For more information or confidential enquiries please email Kylie Peacock, Director, People and Culture at kylie.peacock@westhaven.org.au

Applications close: 23 May 2025

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