Team Leader Adult Services - Dubbo

Are you a skilled leader looking to take the next step in your career

We are seeking a Team Leader to join our team on a Permanent FullTime basis to assist us in building a workforce that prides itself on accountability and effectiveness.

Join an inclusive and supportive workplace and be part of the expansive and diverse Westhaven team!

Benefits That Matter:

• Competitive Salary: $43.08 $46.35 per hour super 11.5 (Level 4 Social Community Home Care and Disability Services Industry Award 2010

• Taxfree salary packaging up to $16000 per year (prorata)

• Enjoy a taxfree meal & entertainment card up to $2650 per year (prorata)

• Fitness Fanatic Weve Got You Covered: Fitness Passport to Energise Your Lifestyle

• Embrace Diversity Spark Inclusion: Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

• Invest in YOU: Grow with Westhavens Leadership and Development Training

As an Adult Services Team Leader you will:

• Empower a team of Support Workers to provide highquality and safe services to vulnerable persons within our community

• Coach and mentor a team of Support Workers offering onthejob training support and guidance

• Inspire a skilled versatile and diverse team utilising your experience in managing performance and delivering support

• Support service delivery by ensuring effective and efficient administrative processes and procedures including quality timely and accurate reporting planning and recordkeeping

You will have:

• Advanced problemsolving capabilities confidence and emotional intelligence that enable you to resolve complex situations

• The ability to interact positively at all levels including demonstrated capacity to work with culturally and linguistically diverse communities

• Demonstrated ability to lead motivate and performance manage a team within a dynamic and fast paced environment

• Effective conflict resolution skills negotiation mediation and decisionmaking skills paired with exceptional interpersonal skills and demonstrated ability to confidently apply deescalation strategies in high conflict situations

• Demonstrated ability to build a cohesive team with clarity around goals and accountabilities

• A leadership style that fosters innovative creative and collaborative practices and the ability to motivate others

• Willingness to take a personcentred approach to working with vulnerable persons to ensure that the goals and aspirations of the person with disability are understood

• Celebrate and nurture an inclusive diverse and supportive workplace

• Certificate IV or Diploma in Disability Services Community Services or similar field; or identify as Aboriginal and be willing to work towards a relevant qualification

• Experience supporting individuals with complex needs behaviours of concern and mental health concerns

• Experience working with people with a disability highly regarded

About Us:
Westhaven is and will continue to be the provider of choice for disability support services and accommodation across regional NSW. Westhaven provides clientcentric highquality programs and activities that provide wholeoflife support for people with disability including offering houses that are homes enabling choice and control and supporting clients to live life the way they choose.

Compliance requirements

• Current NSW Drivers licence

• Obtain and maintain a current paid Working with Children Check (WWCC)

• Obtain and maintain a valid National Disability Insurance Scheme Workers Check (NDISWC)

• Willingness to undertake a preemployment police check

• Current First Aid and CPR Certification
  

About applying:
Please submit your CV and a cover letter addressing your abilities to undertake the key responsibilities of this role.

We encourage diversity and inclusion:

Westhaven is passionate about social justice and diversity and is committed to being an EEO employer. We embrace diversity in our workforce and encourage applications from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds including those from Aboriginal Torres Strait Island heritage and people with lived experience of disability.

For more information or confidential enquiries please contact the People and Culture team at