Group Director, Identity & Mission | Cabrini Australia
Executive Leadership Role
Location: Melbourne
We’re building for the better!
By 2036, more than 150,000 patients will look to us for healthcare every year.
We are seeking an exceptional leader to join our Executive team as Group Director, Identity & Mission. You will play a defining leadership role in ensuring our mission is not only preserved, but actively lived — influencing how we lead, how we care, and how we make decisions across the organisation. Joining Cabrini means becoming part of a community with a long tradition of compassionate care, innovation, and service. You will influence the heart of the organisation and influence the future of Catholic healthcare in Australia.
Key Responsibilities
Lead mission integration and formation across the organisation, embedding Cabrini’s values and ethic of care in strategy, culture, and care delivery
Partner with the CEO, Board, and Executive to strengthen organisational identity and reinforce ethical integrity
Support considered discernment and ethical decision‑making in organisational and clinical contexts
Represent Cabrini within the broader Catholic community
Ensure accessible, high-quality pastoral, spiritual and bereavement support for patients, clients, families, and staff of all faiths and no faith
What we are looking for:
You are a mission‑mindful, relational, and strategic leader who brings depth of experience in Catholic health, social services, education, or a related ministry. You combine theological understanding with contemporary organisational leadership.
You will bring:
Senior leadership experience in mission, identity, ethics, and formation
Strong capability in organisational culture, change leadership, and stakeholder engagement
Commitment to the principles of Catholic social teaching and the healing ministry of Jesus
Excellent communication, personal and facilitation skills
Relevant tertiary qualifications in theology, ethics, leadership, or a related field
What we offer:
Salary Packaging up to $18,850 per annum to increase your take-home pay
Access to a range of retail offers, discounted hospital services and savings on eligible private health fund services
Myki Commuter Club discount
A commitment to health and wellbeing initiatives including discounted access to a wide range of gyms, pools, and fitness facilities through Fitness Passport
Interested? For further information, view the full position description or contact: Arlene Jeffery, Recruitment Advisor on 0477 280 238
Does this sound like your new role? Bring your skills and enthusiasm to Cabrini Health and help optimise the patient experience and health outcomes for our community.
Cabrini Health acknowledges the importance of creating a work environment that is welcoming, safe, equitable and inclusive for people of all backgrounds and abilities. Inclusion is core to our mission.
As part of our commitment to Reconciliation and Closing the Gap in employment related outcomes, we encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples.
Working for Cabrini
Cabrini Health is a Catholic, private, for-purpose health service located in Melbourne’s southeast. Inspired by the mission and ethic of care of the Cabrini Sisters, providing quality, compassionate care to our community for more than 75 years.
There is something special about Cabrini Health. Our highly skilled staff and specialists incorporate clinical research, innovative models of care and state-of-the-art technology to deliver the best possible care and outcomes for our patients. We demonstrate our mission to serve our community through outreach programs that support asylum seekers, provide healthcare in rural communities and in underdeveloped countries.
Our size, reputation and growth strategy ensure genuine opportunities for our people to learn, grow and realise potential.
Our values: Compassion - Integrity - Courage - Respect
MANDATORY FOR ALL NEW STAFF TO CABRINI
Employment with Cabrini Health will be based on satisfactory background checks such as professional references, National Police Check, vaccinations for annual Influenza plus a Working with Children Check (WWCC) may also be requested. Vaccination for COVID-19 is highly recommended.
Skills Required
- Senior leadership experience in mission, identity, ethics, and formation
- Strong capability in organisational culture, change leadership, and stakeholder engagement
- Relevant tertiary qualifications in theology, ethics, leadership, or a related field
What We Do
Welcome to Cabrini Health Cabrini is owned and operated by the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus who came to Australia in 1948 to take over the management of a 45-bed community hospital named St Benedict’s. Cabrini now has more than 800 beds and a comprehensive range of health services. There are acute facilities at Malvern and Brighton. The Cabrini Institute supports education and research, in order to continually improve the quality of care and educate tomorrow’s health professionals. Cabrini Technology provides an innovative, independent information and healthcare technology service to organisations throughout Australasia and has headquarters in Mount Waverley. More recently, Cabrini has established an Asylum Seeker and Refugee Health Hub in Brunswick, which provides access to a range of health services for people seeking asylum and newly arrived refugees. Cabrini is a not-for-profit health service and all surpluses are used to develop our services and facilities to provide the best possible care for patients and families. Cabrini supports and operates a number of other programs for disadvantaged people in our community. Patient care is the primary focus of our work and at the heart of all we do
