Disability Services Manager

Permanent full-time role based in **Alexandra Hills, QLD**:

- Supervise a team and site and deliver an exceptional service to our customers
- Encouraged ongoing professional development and diverse career opportunities

**Who is Endeavour Foundation?**

Endeavour Foundation support people with disabilities to live, learn, work and flourish according to their own interests and priorities. We are people working together, making possibilities a reality for people with a disability, and for people seeking employment, education and training opportunities We focus on ability, on dreams, goals and potential.

Endeavour Foundation is one of Australia’s largest employers of people living with disability, so being inclusive and diverse is not just an aspiration, it is who we are Fostering a diverse and inclusive culture is at the heart of everything we do and getting it right goes hand in hand with living our organisational values and our purpose of making possibilities a reality.

***

**What can Endeavour Foundation offer you?**
- Salary Packaging Benefits Package up to **$15,900 **of your annual salary tax free. Less tax = more take home pay for you
- In addition to your tax-free benefit, you can also use up to **$2,650** of your pre-tax income to pay for entertainment expenses (meals, holiday accommodation etc.)
- An Employee Assistance Program - a free and confidential counselling service available to all staff and their family members
- Paid Parental Leave
- Reward and Recognition Program
- Free flu vaccinations

**About the Role**

As the Site Manager of our **Learning & Lifestyle Centre at Alexandra Hills,** you will support our community activity services by following a person-centred support model to help our customers develop independence, confidence, self-esteem, and social interaction skills.

You will be responsible for end-to-end management of a community activity site creating a positive team environment.

**Key duties will include**:

- Delivering strategy through building a capable, relevant, high performing and legislatively compliant workforce
- Monitoring financial performance across sites including funding, billing, and operating expenditure in line with budget and strategic aspirations
- Ensuring team members are fully trained and aware of individual customer requirements
- Modelling safety leadership by instilling a positive safety culture and commitment to humanistic service delivery
- Supervising a team on rotating roster cycles to maintain effective site operations and resolving issues
- Ensuring sites maintain and protect the privacy and accuracy of records that include medical, workplace observations, absences, and progress notes
- Assisting with the recruitment process, developing, and retaining a qualified workforce committed to social inclusion and establishing professional relationships with individuals

**What will you bring?**
- Bachelor’s degree qualification in Human Services or related field is required
- Disability experience, ideally management experience within the disability sector
- Proven interpersonal and communication skills and ability to grow relationships with team members and stakeholders
- Problem solving skills, to successfully identify problems, develop solutions and implement these using a logical and systematic approach
- Financial management skills including general finance and budgeting, profit and loss, balance sheet and cash-flow management
- Ability to oversee operations that deliver high-quality and safe customer outcomes in a commercially viable manner
- Ability to lead a team and key stakeholders through significant change
- Possession of a current driver’s licence reliable motor vehicle
- Knowledge of NDIS funding, frameworks, compliance and WHS compliance and commitment is preferred
- Creativity - Develop and execute creative strategies that align with Endeavour and the individual’s goals

**What clearances/checks do you need?**
- Hold or be willing to obtain a **Working with Children Check (Blue Card) **& a** NDIS Worker Screening Check **(previously a Yellow Card)
- Hold or be willing to obtain a **First Aid** and **CPR** certificate
- Willing to undertake a **“Fit2Work” National Criminal History Check** (should you be successful)
- Open **Driver's **License with comprehensive insurance and reliable car

**How can I join Endeavour Foundation?