Workforce Planning Manager - Home Care

Employment Type:  Permanent Full time

Hours: 76 hours/fortnight

Location: Richmond, VIC with hybrid work options

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Contact: Nick Claringbold | NClaringbold@mercy.com.au

Please note: Applications must be submitted online. We are unable to accept applications via email

Where there’s life, there’s Mercy.  

Where there’s care, there’s You. 

Through the battles and the breakthroughs, we're there. Where will you be? 

For over a century, our incredible teams have provided care for people when they need it most. Our people feel great pride in this, and they value the security and stability we offer. But it also means so much opportunity - to build on all that’s gone before, to grow your impact and gain experience that’s hard to find elsewhere. 

Join us at Mercy Health and help us deliver even greater outcomes for our residents, families, communities, and you. 

About the opportunity:

Reporting to the General Manager Home Care, the Workforce Planning Manager–Home Care plays a pivotal role in ensuring a capable, agile, and high-performing workforce across our services. This role is central to aligning workforce capability with client demand, improving service delivery, and driving operational performance across the Home Care portfolio.

Key responsibilities include:

• Supporting the home care business in achieving the operational and strategic business objectives

• Providing operational support to Regional Managers engaged in day-to-day delivery of services in the home care business stream.

• Ensuring a skilled, flexible workforce aligned to current and future demands

• Delivering on key workforce metrics and ensuring that clients are receiving support and services from appropriately trained and qualified staff

• Driving a consistent and efficient rostering framework across services

• Building proactive recruitment pipelines to meet fluctuating demand

• Monitoring KPI performance across financial, service, workforce and compliance

• Supporting integrated service delivery across Home Care, RAC and Seniors Living

• Ensuring compliance with Aged Care, NDIS and internal policies

• Identifying workforce-driven growth and service improvement opportunities

• Supporting efficiency and transformation initiatives across the business

• Leading and promoting Daily Operating System (DOS) disciplines

You will have:

• Proven experience managing multi-site or multi-service operations

• Strong leadership and stakeholder engagement capabilities

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

• Advanced organisational and workforce management expertise

• Demonstrated success in senior operational leadership roles

• Strong financial acumen including budgeting and performance analysis

• Experience leading change, transformation, and process improvement

• Ability to redesign processes to improve efficiency and outcomes

• High-level business acumen and strategic thinking capability

• Strong networking, influencing, and presentation skills

What you’ll bring:

To thrive in this role, you will have: 

• Tertiary qualifications supported by sound management experience in business, management, health, or aged care

• Extensive leadership experience within health, aged care or community services

• A valid Driver’s licence and willingness to travel interstate and regional

You will also be required to provide evidence of, or in the process of obtaining: 

• NDIS clearance  

Ready to help us shape the future of healthcare?

Join us and make a meaningful difference in people’s lives - and your career.

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Please contact us if you would like to find out more or communicate any requirements to ensure we provide you with a fair and equitable interview and selection process.

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.