Address- Employment Term: Permanent full-time
- Location: Toowoomba or Kingaroy
- Remuneration: Competitive salary + 11% super + $15,900 NFP salary packaging
Make a meaningful difference with UnitingCare Community
UnitingCare’s Family and Disability Services is one of the largest and most diverse community service providers in Queensland providing a wide range of critical services with over 2,300 paid employees and 5,000 volunteers. Our services provide support to vulnerable individuals, families and communities in metropolitan, regional and remote locations across Queensland.
We’re looking for someone who wants to make the world a little better through small moments that leave big impacts. To build meaningful relationships and make a difference in the lives of others.
An integral part of our Family Services Senior Leadership team as a Statewide Manager you’ll be encouraged to grow, develop and feel empowered to make the everyday easier for the people we care so passionately about.
Your part in our UnitingCare Community team
We currently have an exciting opportunity for a Statewide Manager to join our Leadership Team. Working with teams based across Toowoomba, Kingaroy and Rockhampton, you will provide strategic leadership and operational and financial management for the Out Of Home Care services North and West. You will be responsible for managing, developing and enhancing the delivery of services, scoping for new services, and being part of a collegial, highly respected leadership team in our organisation.
What makes a difference for us
With extensive experience in the Child Safety Sector, specifically in non family-based care, you will have a comprehensive understanding of the non-profit sector. Your experience has equipped you with strong leadership skills and you have comprehensive industry and sector knowledge and networks. Most of all, the safety and wellbeing of our clients and our teams is of the utmost importance to you and you will move mountains to ensure that the services we deliver are exceptional.
Supplementing this you will present with the following:
- Tertiary qualifications in Human Services or similar are essential.
- Tertiary qualifications in Leadership/Management are desirable.
- Demonstrated achievements in providing strategic leadership and management for strategic and service planning in a complex service delivery organisation.
- Demonstrated success in leading and managing employees; co-ordinating planning project teams and cultivating productive working relationships, partnerships and teamwork.
- Demonstrated ability to lead and manage services, with an understanding of specialist programs including ideally a comprehensive understanding of contemporary community services and sector reform agendas.
What makes a difference for you
At UnitingCare we are leaders in crisis response, the protection of vulnerable children, financial resilience and family wellbeing. Our Family and Child Services team work passionately across Queensland to make a meaningful difference in people’s lives.
- Flexible work arrangements to support work-life balance
- Save tax and increase your take home pay by salary packaging your everyday living expenses and bills (up to $15,900) and meal entertainment (up to $2,650) per annum
- A recognition and rewards platform, providing employee discounts at hundreds of retailers, including everyday expenses, holidays, health insurance, annual awards celebration, wellbeing and employee assistance programs
- A positive and inclusive team based on respect, shared standards, strong values and a commitment to serving others
- Eligible employees receive12 weeks paid parental leave and 2 weeks paid partner leave, available after 6 months service, in addition to the government scheme
- Diversity and inclusive leave, offering paid gender affirmation leave and cultural leave options (paid and unpaid) for those who may celebrate Lunar New Year, Diwali, Ramadan, NAIDOC weeks and other significant cultural events
- Career development opportunities to challenge yourself, grow and make a meaningful difference
We’d love you to be part of our UnitingCare family
Our Family and Child Services team are passionate about their work with parents to ensure children remain safe in the home and parents have the skills, resilience and capability to effectively parent and meet their children’s developmental, educational, health and well-being needs. We also provide targeted services to men who are seeking to change their behaviour.
Joining our Family and Child Services team, you’ll also be welcomed as part of the UnitingCare family. The second-largest Queensland employer, we’re a proud not-for-profit with more than 16,500 staff and 9,000 volunteers across our brands of BlueCare, Lifeline, ARRCS, The Wesley Hospital, Buderim Private Hospital, St Stephen’s Hospital, and St Andrew’s War Memorial Hospital, and have been leading by example for more than 100 years. Our team are compassionate, inclusive and committed to the work we do, helping people live life in all its fullness.
Child safe, Child friendly
UnitingCare is committed to being a Child Safe, Child Friendly organisation and will:
- provide welcoming, safe and nurturing services for children
- implement measures to prevent child abuse and neglect within our services
- appropriately and immediately address child abuse and neglect if it does occur.
Diversity & Inclusion
Our approach is simple – everybody is welcome here. At UnitingCare, diversity is at the core of our who we are, our mission and our values. We are committed to providing equal opportunities to all employees no matter their sex, race, culture, sexual orientation, disability or gender identity. Demonstrating our commitment to reconciliation and building long-term employment opportunities for First Nations peoples, UnitingCare strongly encourages Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants for this position.
Safe workplace
We work hard to make our services welcoming and safe for every person. We are united in keeping children, young people and the elderly safe from harm, within our services, workplaces and the communities we support. We are committed to speaking up loudly for their safety.
