Local Area Coordinator

North Lakes FullTime
- Are you ready to kickstart your Career Revitalisation for 2025?
- Monthly ADO + Salary Packaging + A GIFT Day & more
- Rainbow tick accredited organisation

**Using your extensive experience and knowledge to assist people in your community access the NDIS and make a difference in their lives**

**Are you ready to kickstart your Career Revitalisation for 2025?**

We have the opportunity you have been waiting for Let 2025 be the fresh way to express the idea of renewing your professional energy and enthusiasm

A profession where you can assist people with disability and their families to access information on the NDIS and other community supports? Where you add value? Perhaps work for an organisation where people from all walks of life are welcomed with open arms into an inclusive and diverse culture? It's the perfect time to join us on our mission to change lives for those with disabilities and their families the Moreton Bay Region.

Are you passionate about driving inclusive change? Do you want to work for an organisation that values diversity and engages with community stakeholders to ensure inclusion is firmly on the agenda? We support people with a disability to live fulfilling and connected lives within their local communities.

If this sounds like you, you will love working with us as a **Local Area Coordinator** in our North Lakes office.

**Why you ask**:
We are committed to maintaining a diverse workforce that reflects the diverse needs of the people we support. This is not only reflected in our values and day to day operations, but also in our positive rapid growth and hence a new opportunity that we would love to invite you to explore

**What is the Position?**:
Our Morten Bay Region is looking for a new Local Area Coordinators to be the key link between people with disability, the National Disability Insurance Agency and the community you live and work in.

Our LACs are our front line, serving the community by delivering the NDIS LAC PITC program:

- Building capacity and providing information to individuals, families and carers to identify their goals, strengths and needs, to plan for their future based on person-centred principles.
- Developing and monitoring participant plans to ensure meaningful change is achieved.
- Build and maintain a working knowledge of local community services and supports.
- Developing and strengthening relationships with key stakeholders including First Nations, culturally and linguistically diverse & LGBTQIA+ communities. You will engage with local community organisations, mainstream services and supports, health service organisations and local governments.
- Maintaining appropriate administrative records utilising the NDIS data system in a timely manner.
- Undertaking the day-to-day operations of the role in a way that promotes independence, empowerment and involvement of persons with disability.
- The role will have a focus on building and strengthening the capacity of people with disabilities (both NDIS participants and non-participants), their families and carers, as well as local government, business, and the community sector._

**Some of your key responsibilities will include**:

- Implement plans using a person-centred approach.
- Deliver LAC support to people with disability to understand their plans.
- Support community capacity building projects to meet community needs through work with local government, business and the community sector.
- Develop collegial and productive relationships, both within and external to Carers Queensland, to ensure the best outcomes for people with disability, the program and the organisation.

**What's in it for you, you ask?**:

- **A full-time role**with work from home days available (up to 1 day per week once past probation depending on operational need) at our North Lakes site: close to North Lakes Westfield.
- Attractive Remuneration Package of **CSW4.1 - $85,421.81 per annum** plus superannuation 11.5 %
- **Excellent Not-for-Profit Tax Benefits** with RemServ + transfer your long service leave via QLEAVE (if applicable).
- **Accrued Days Off + Gifted Day for Christmas** + Access to Discounted **Corporate Private Health with Medibank & BUPA**:

- **Professional development through ongoing training**:

- The opportunity to **enact real and rewarding change** in the lives of those you work with.
- **A flexible and supportive work environment**where your contribution is highly valued and where our organisational values of integrity, respect, diversity, empowerment, and adaptability are heavily integrated into our culture.

**Do you have?**:

- **Qualifications** in Disability, Community Development, Education, Human Services or similar?
- **High-level communication skills** (both written and verbal) with the ability to build rapport quickly and adapt skills according to the audience or target group involved?
- **Demonstrated ability** to follow process and systems while being adaptable to the ev