Community Care Team Leader

**Employment Status**: Permanent, full time
**Days & Hours of Work**:Monday to Friday**totalling 38 hours per week
**Competitive Salary**:Band 6 - $101,833.74 + 12% superannuation
**Location**:Corporate Centre in Sandringham, with some flexibility to work from home based on operational needs

**About Us**:
We are a passionate organisation, connected in our shared goal to be ‘sector leading’ in all that we do for the community and each other. Home to over 100,000 residents, Bayside City Council's enduring purpose is building extraordinary places, thriving communities, and better futures.

Bayside Council is an equal-opportunity employer committed to providing an accessible and safe working environment that embraces and values child safety, diversity, and inclusion. Our organisational strategy is made up of three priorities and we consider these in everything we do**:Diversity, Equity & Inclusion**, **Customer Experience** and **Results Matter**.

We want everyone to be as proud of what we are achieving - and excited about our future - as we are, and we are committed to working together to achieve this.

**About the Role**:
We have an exciting opportunity for a passionate leader to support a team of support workers to deliver a coordinated range of aged and disability services that are flexible and responsive to client needs.

You will be responsible for:

- Providing professional advice, leadership and supervision of a team of 40+ support workers.
- Timely and appropriate responses to client wellbeing and safety concerns as well as review of the needs of older persons, persons with a disability and their carers to facilitate referrals for re-assessment.
- Effective and efficient development and delivery of appropriate service plans in accordance with support plans developed by Assessment Services.

**Key Selection Criteria**:
To be successful in this role, you will bring the following skills and competencies:

- Tertiary qualification in a management, health, allied health, social science or related discipline (Bachelor level).
- Demonstrated experience in staff leadership with the capacity to support and develop a team of staff working in isolated situations.
- Well developed conflict and problem resolution skills supported by excellent written and verbal communication.
- Excellent time management and organisational skills.
- Demonstrated understanding of the needs and issues affecting older people, people with disabilities and their carers and knowledge of the services available to meet their needs.
- Previous experience working Aged and Disability Services software preferred.
- Current Victorian drivers licence.
- The successful applicant must be prepared to undergo a Police Check and ongoing police checks every three years and maintain a working with children check.

**Mandatory pre-employment requirements**:

- Be willing to undergo and complete a satisfactory criminal history check.
- Provide or obtain an employment-based Working with Children check.

**What we can offer you in return**:

- A work life/balance through flexible and hybrid working arrangements.
- Generous leave provisions, including accrued time off, parental leave, three days of wellbeing leave per year, cultural and ceremonial leave, gender affirmation leave, plus the ability to purchase up to four weeks additional leave per year.
- Dedicated Staff Wellbeing programs, events and gym membership discounts.
- Learning and development opportunities so our people can grow and thrive.
- A parkland surrounding the office that is only a short 500m stroll to the beach.
- Free onsite staff parking plus hybrid vehicles that employees can book for work related travel.

If you are ready to be part of our incredible organisation, and you think this role is the right fit for you, then we look forward to finding out more about you and what you would bring to this role.

**How to apply**:

- To discover more about the role and responsibilities review the Position Description.
- If you require reasonable adjustment at any point throughout the recruitment process, then please do let us know by contacting the listed Hiring Manager.

**Applications close**: Wednesday 23 July, 11:55pm
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