Service Leader

Service Leader Family and Child Connect (FaCC) / Assessment and Service Connect (ASC) Rockhampton

• Employment Term: Permanent full-time opportunity (76 hours per fortnight)
• Location: Rockhampton
• Remuneration: $60.27 per hour Super NFP Salary Packaging (save tax and increase your take home pay)

Make a meaningful difference with UnitingCare Queensland

At UnitingCare we are leaders in crisis response the protection of vulnerable people and children financial resilience and family wellbeing. Our FaDS (Family and Disability Services) team work passionately across Queensland to make a meaningful difference in peoples lives.

As a Service Leader youll be encouraged to grow develop and feel empowered to make the everyday easier for the people we care so passionately about. Lets make a meaningful difference together!

Your part in our UnitingCare team

Family and Child Connect (FACC) Service provides information and advice to people seeking assistance for children and families where there are concerns about their wellbeing. The Service provides information and advice based on an assessment of the familys needs or connects families with the right support.

Assessment Service Connect (ASC) provides short-term support to families conducting a thorough needs assessment and supporting engagement with long-term ongoing supports.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage the day-to-day operations of the service Rockhampton Gladstone and Emerald.

• Provide professional leadership to a team of Assessment and Engagement Workers with emphasis on delivery of high quality best practice service delivery.

• Work cooperatively across UCQ programs to derive maximum benefit for people accessing services.

What makes a difference for you

• Flexible work arrangements to support work-life balance

• NFP Salary Packaging: Save tax and increase your take home pay by salary packaging your everyday living expenses and bills (up to $15900) and meal entertainment (up to $2650) per annum. To learn more about this benefit watch the video via the following link: SalaryPackagingExplained

• 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

• 12 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 opportunitiesto challenge yourself grow and make a meaningful difference

• A positive and inclusive team based on respect shared standards strong values and a commitment to serving others

Wed love you to be part of our UnitingCare family

Joining our FaDS team youll also be welcomed as part of the UnitingCare family. The second-largest Queensland employer were a proud not-for-profit with more than 16500 staff and 9000 volunteers across our brands of BlueCare Lifeline ARRCS The Wesley Hospital Buderim Private Hospital St Stephens Hospital and St Andrews War Memorial Hospital and have been leading by example for more than 100 years.

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 iswelcome here. At UnitingCare diversity is at the core of our who we are our mission and our are committed to providing equal opportunities to all employees no matter their sex race culture sexual orientation disability or gender 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.