General Manager - Mental Health & Wellbeing at Uniting

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General Manager – Mental Health & Wellbeing
Uniting NSW.ACT

Location: Oatlands | Travel across NSW & ACT
Work Type: Full-Time | Permanent
Directorate: Mental Health & Wellbeing
Reports to: Head of Mental Health & Wellbeing
Package: Competitive executive package + salary packaging + benefits

Lead with Purpose. Deliver with Impact. Shape the Future.

Are you an influential, forward-thinking Senior Manager ready to lead transformational change in community mental health?

Uniting NSW.ACT is seeking a dynamic and commercially astute General Manager – Mental Health & Wellbeing to provide senior leadership across a diverse portfolio of government-funded services. This is a career-defining opportunity to drive strategic growth, operational excellence, and sector-leading innovation while remaining deeply anchored in person-centred care.

This role extends across metropolitan and regional NSW and the ACT, requiring a leader comfortable operating at scale, across complexity, and within evolving funding environments.

The Opportunity
As General Manager, you will play a central leadership role within our Mental Health & Wellbeing Directorate, turning strategic vision into operational excellence and delivering measurable, meaningful impact.

As General Manager, you will:

• Lead high-quality, evidence-based mental health and psychosocial services across multiple regions
• Translate strategy into measurable impact across service delivery, people, and performance
• Drive strategic growth, innovation, and new funding opportunities
• Ensure strong financial performance, sustainability, and service viability
• Build and lead a high-performing, inclusive culture grounded in safety and accountability
• Strengthen executive relationships with key stakeholders and funding bodies
• Position Uniting as a sector leader in community mental health

About You
You are an accomplished leader who combines strategic vision with operational discipline.

You will bring

• Postgraduate qualifications in Business, Finance and/or Mental Health or Community Services
• Extensive experience leading large, geographically dispersed multidisciplinary teams
• Strong commercial acumen with demonstrated success managing government-funded programs
• Proven tender and contract management expertise
• Strong understanding of evidence-based mental health models, health system architecture and funding/commissioning mechanisms.
• Experience leading organisational change in complex service systems
• Strong knowledge of relevant legislation, governance and compliance frameworks

Most importantly, you are purpose driven. You balance financial stewardship with compassion, innovation with accountability, and strategy with action.

Why Join Uniting?

At Uniting, leadership means more than performance, it means impact.

We offer:

• Competitive executive salary package
• Salary packaging to increase your take-home pay
• 4 Me Days – additional paid leave to recharge
• 4 CPD Days – invest in your professional growth
• Fitness Passport – support your wellbeing
• U Rewards – retail and lifestyle discounts

Contact for Enquiries:
Pallavi Bhatia – Talent Acquisition Specialist

About Uniting: When you’re part of Uniting NSW.ACT, you’re part of a diverse, purpose-led team of people who are really making a difference to the world around them. We contribute to the work and mission of the Uniting Church in NSW and the ACT through social justice advocacy, community services and spiritual care. We provide care and support for people through all ages and stages of life, with a focus on people experiencing disadvantage and vulnerability. Our purpose is to inspire people, enliven communities and confront injustice.

Uniting leaders and employees work together to create a culture that is safe, inclusive and person-centred. We bring this to life every day through our values: compassionate, respectful, imaginative and bold.
Uniting acknowledges the continuing sovereignty and rich cultural diversity of Australia’s First Peoples. We pay our respects to all Elders – past, present, and emerging – and to all First Peoples on whose lands we live and work. Uniting is a Child Safe Organisation committed to promoting the safety, wellbeing and inclusion of children and young people.

Job Info:

• Company: Uniting
• Position: General Manager - Mental Health & Wellbeing
• Work Location: Sydney
• Country: AU

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