AddressAbout Us
At Safe Places, it’s all about the young people.
Safe Places for Children leads the way in providing vulnerable young people, who exhibit complex emotional and behavioural problems, with intensive therapeutic support. Our approach is individualised and based on small, stable, and consistent teams that build trust with the young person, stabilise their behaviours and give them a sense of hope and direction, positively impacting many young lives.
Benefits
- Generous salary packaging to increase your take home pay.
- Annual anniversary bonuses (up to $5000 based on years of service).
- Generous well-being offerings including 6 weeks annual leave with 17.5% leave loading.
About the Role
The Therapeutic Quality & Governance Manager is responsible for creating a range of policies and procedures through organisational needs to build therapeutic capability to ensure required operational capability across our services. This will be accomplished by providing best practice oversight, methodologies, policies, frameworks, and tools to enable consistent therapeutic practices across all services. This will be a pivotal role in ensuring quality and governance in our services whilst also managing the Licensing Team.
The purpose of the role is to develop, implement and oversee processes to maintain high-quality care and compliance with regulatory requirements, and guiding the organisation to best practice.
To perform within our roles, Safe Places People Capability Framework (PCF) describes the necessary capabilities. We have three main groupings of capability: strategy, leadership and service delivery. We believe mastering the routine and day to day of service delivery is incredibly important but recognise your value as extending beyond these key accountabilities. Our Therapeutic Quality & Governance Manager will be responsible to:
- Build and continuously improve capability of therapeutic practices through a lens of continuous improvement.
- Ensure governance, policies and documentation is fit for purpose in accordance with appropriate guidelines, standard operating procedures, legislative standards, and ethical requirements.
- Provide effective processional guidance to operational staff including providing high level professional advice and supervision to drive the delivery of safe and high-quality therapeutic services.
- Reviewing and developing lead therapeutic practices, monitoring and embedding regulatory requirements and provide expert advice on standards and governance.
About You
Our Therapeutic Quality & Governance Manager will bring a genuine passion to making a difference in the lives of young people and our communities, holding certain attributes and demonstrated knowledge and experience.
Personable attributes will include:
- You will be an excellent collaborator with a talent for forging strong partnerships alongside your experience in the mastery of therapeutic practices, allowing for high quality care for our young people.
- You effortlessly tackle complex problems with a practical approach whilst ensuring our services deliver exceptional care and experiences to our young people.
- You will be a hands-on specialist who is able to consult and collaborate with senior leaders and work on organisational wide activities, and not be stuck in perfection and getting the detail perfect.
- Degree in Social Work or Psychology or a post graduate qualification in a health-related field
Working at Safe Places
In the heart of Safe Places, a harmonious blend of Unity, Support, Responsiveness, Passion, and Professionalism forms the very essence of who we are. When you join our team, you’re part of a community that prioritises integrity and professionalism and celebrates diversity. In all we do, we aim to foster an atmosphere of respect, collaboration, and mutual advancement. If this sounds interesting, come join us.
Safe Places for Children Support Office roles are based in the Brisbane CBD office Monday to Friday with travel to other locations sometimes required.
Visit our website for more information at www.safeplaces.com.au
