AddressCome and join our growing team in the Northern Tasmania (Launceston and surrounds) where we are currently recruiting for a full time Team Leader - Disability (or as we call it - Practice Leader) to join our Operations Team.
Firstly, some of the perks:
Work for a true values-based organisation making a different to people living with a disability.
Salary packaging of up to $15,900 (plus an additional $2,650 for Entertainment expenses).
As well as:
- Access to professional development and in-house training opportunities
- Career advancement opportunities - we love to promote from within
- Experience a supportive culture and working environment
- Access to our employee assistance program – because life happens.
About you:
You will possess:
- Knowledge and capability to deliver contemporary and innovative services in the disability sector gained through applicable experience training, education and experience.
- Extensive practical experience providing support to people with intellectual disabilities.
- Ability to engage with, motivate, train and mentor teams to ensure delivery of high quality supports.
- Sound written and verbal communication skills including the ability to undertake reporting, consultation, mediation and produce correspondence.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to build strong and mutually beneficial internal and external relationships
- Problem solving, consultation and negotiation skills.
Let us tell you about the role:
As the Practice Leader you will supervise a team of support professionals that deliver client quality of life outcomes. This position facilitates high quality support through observation, modelling, coaching, fostering team work between support professionals.
This role will lead the direct provision of services with a specific focus on building team capability to achieve the objectives of the organisation in a manner consistent and supportive of the organisation’s strategic objections, values and purpose.
- This is fulltime role with a near 50/50 split of support and administration.
- The successful candidate must be able to be available or a variety of shifts including sleepovers and some weekend work.
What is essential?
- Relevant industry qualification recognised by Possability and/or relevant industry experience.
- Experience or demonstrated understanding of leading and supervising a team to achieve required strategic and operational outcomes.
What’s next?
For further information about this role, please contact the Possability recruitment team (Ayesha) on 0461 359 ***.
To access a copy of the position description please click here.
If you are ready for your next role, looking for a career change or wanting to join a values based organisation, please hit the apply button and attach your resume and cover letter by 5pm Friday 28th June 2024
Possability is proud to be an equal opportunity employer where every person can feel safe and participate in meaningful work. We are committed to workplace diversity and encourage employment applications from people with a disability, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. To ensure that all clients and vulnerable people are protected, all employees are required to hold a current NDIS check, National Police check, appropriate working with childrens check, and be vaccinated against covid-19.
And finally a little more about us:
Possability is a leading Australian non-profit, values-based organisation delivering a range of individual and flexible support options for people with a disability across Tasmania, Victoria, and Queensland. Services include supported accommodation, employment, training, respite, and support for children & young people with a history of adversity.
Possability has a vision for a world where everyone has the opportunity to pursue their potential. We are catalysts for change in the broader community and in the lives of the people we serve. We believe that freedom and independence are fundamental human rights. We are committed to providing a quality service designed to be responsive and flexible to individual needs to enable people to achieve their personal goals.
