Child, Youth & Family Rostering Leads. Permanent Full Time

About the Organisation

Every day, Life Without Barriers provides support and care to children and young people, as we work collaboratively with families, carers, and communities, to ensure they have the environment they deserve to grow. With a focus on ensuring safety and respect, this is an opportunity to make a positive and meaningful difference in these young lives and help pave a brighter future.

Life Without Barriers is a leading social purpose organisation of 8,000 employees working in more than 500 communities across Australia. We support children, young people and families, people with disability, older people and people with mental illness. We work with people who are homeless and refugees and asylum seekers. Join a community of people dedicated to breaking down barriers.

We want to employ people who reflect the diversity of our clients to ensure we can support each client's individual needs and wants. We encourage people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander background and people with disability to apply.

About the role

In these newly created roles, you will support the development, improvement, and management of an efficient rostering function within the Intensive Therapeutic Care, Family Based Care and Specialised Programs functions of our Child, Youth and Family team.

You will be responsible for the creation and oversight of Master & Working rosters, staff availability calendars, along with providing subject matter expertise in relation to workforce management principles, health and safety, industrial instruments, and roster optimisation

These 2 permanent full time opportunities can be based anywhere in NSW, with flexible working arrangements (Including work from home) available.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with key stakeholders to develop and implement strategic and operational plans to manage and improve rostering
• Provide coaching and support leaders and rostering teams to uplift capability to develop and review master employee rosters that match the required service level, service objectives and funding level
• Support a geographically dispersed function that manages the actual working rosters, ensuring compliance with award provisions, employee conditions and entitlements and client needs.
• Communicate and coordinate with stakeholders as required in response to substantial planned workforce/roster changes, roster concerns and complaints
• Manage employee availability and leave calendars in consultation with leaders.
• Lead the implementation of governance and overarching approval processes for master rosters to ensure compliance with industrial Awards and Agreements whilst meeting client, staff and organisational needs

Skills & Experience

• Demonstrated experience in rostering, service scheduling, staff coordination and/or roster management within a large, complex organisation that delivers services within multiple locations and funding streams.
• Working knowledge of processes to predict, plan and implement workforce capacity solutions
• Demonstrated experience in providing advice and support to leaders and team members on roster related matters
• Monitor, coach and support rostering teams to enable them to provide best practice support to leaders and direct support teams.
• Demonstrated experience in the use of rostering systems or tools

Successful candidates will be required to clear probity checks including National Criminal History Record Check.

To be considered for and appointed to a position at Life Without Barriers, you must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 or hold a valid medical exemption certificate. You will be required to provide evidence of your vaccination status during the recruitment process.

How to Apply
Include your resume and covering letter in one document, click ‘Apply’ and follow the prompts. For any enquiries including persons with disability that require adjustments, contact Kristy Crowe at recruitment@lwb.org.au

We are dedicated to playing our part to reduce the spread of COVID-19 and bring continuity of care and support to our clients. With this in mind, if you are successful, we will discuss with you an alternative to a face-to-face interview.

Applications close at midnight Thursday 13th October 2022

Life Without Barriers supports the Royal Commission into violence, abuse, neglect, and exploitation of people with disability. We believe people with disability need to be heard and for these experiences to influence how support services like ours are delivered. View our statement here https://bit.ly/2GzZGWA