Are you a dynamic people leader who is motivated by enriching the lives of people with disability, driving excellence in service delivery, and is passionate about developing staff to achieve their personal best?
We have an exciting opportunity based in Tamworth for a passionate, client-centred, innovator to lead our New England region across Community Hub and Community Access Programs.
Reporting to the General Manager of Community Services, you’ll be entrusted to drive real impact with your inspiring and innovative leadership in achieving client choice, empowerment, and goals.
You'll bring demonstrated expertise in executing and embedding regional operational plans to achieve Sunnyfield's community services' strategic objectives and performance outcomes to strengthen and expand service delivery.
Aligned with your purpose to genuinely enrich the lives of people with disability and staff at the heart of everything you do, you will strive to inspire and continuously improve workforce and cultural performance, financial viability, innovation, and growth.
About Sunnyfield
The Sunnyfield team is passionate, enthusiastic, and devoted to supporting a brighter future for people with disability. Our guiding values of respect, trust, honesty, and innovation help us to impact the lives of people with intellectual disability through person-centred active support. Our programs and services empower clients directly with new experiences, opportunities, and skills for life and work.
About You
- You’re motivated by your purpose to enrich the lives of people with disability, your team, and your local community! You proactively advocate for client and customer rights, ensuring clients' voice and their participation is included in everything you do!
- Your teams would describe you as an inspiring and engaging People Leader who leads with an open heart. You’re highly self-aware of your leadership and development and are motivated by people reaching their potential. You naturally nurture an empowered, safe, innovative, and high-performing culture where our people can thrive.
- You develop people into high-performing teams. You intuitively find the potential in people and dare to develop that potential through leadership, coaching, and mentoring.
- You are a natural strategic thinker. You enjoy the challenge of bringing a vision and strategy to life whilst achieving operational performance.
- You embrace innovation through your creative flare or inspiring clients and staff. You pursue and lead innovative ideas to best support our clients, staff, organisation and the communities we support.
- You are a change leader who challenges the 'status quo' and drives change to deliver real impact and make a positive difference.
- You have proven experience in growing regional footprint and volume to enable clients to access more services in more locations.
- You also understand the importance of achieving quality, compliance and financial performance to ensure the safety, compliance and economic sustainability to deliver quality services for another 70 years.
If this sounds like you, we would love to speak with you. Ideally, you would have a background in Disability or Human Services, and the above sounds like you. A career at Sunnyfield means living and working with purpose, focusing on empowering people with disability with the opportunities they deserve.
You’ll be part of an organisation built on a heritage of community spirit, trust, inclusion, and heart. With access to salary packaging benefits and discounted healthcare through our corporate partnerships, you’re supported to do the best and most impactful work of your life in a fun, flexible and dynamic environment at Sunnyfield.
What’s Next?
To join our team, apply now with a cover letter demonstrating your background and skills for this role and your resume. Successful candidates must be fully vaccinated against COVID and clear all state-based probity checks, including but not limited to a National Criminal History Record Check and NDIS Worker Screening Check.