Service Manager

**Description**
- 6mth contract opportunity
- Flexibility
- Salary packaging (up to $15,900 tax free)
- Great team environment

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About us...*
Royal Rehab is Australia's leading provider of rehabilitation and disability services.
Highly regarded for our specialist expertise in brain and spinal cord injury rehabilitation, Royal Rehab is also renowned for supported accommodation services, our private hospitals, our purpose-built resort for people with spinal cord injury and community services delivering holistic quality care.

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About the role..*
Royal Rehab Disability Service is seeking a Service Manager to join our enthusiastic Disability Team. As part of our Operations team, you will be responsible for the delivery of innovative, transformational, quality and customer focused services for people with disability, their families and carers. We aim to deliver services using best practice approach to ensure effective and efficient seamless service under the direction of the Disability Services Act and United Nations Convention on the rights of a person with a disability. You will work under the direction of the Operations Manager to manage a small cluster of accommodation outlets/ drop-in support services supporting up to 10-15 clients.
**Key responsibilities include**:

- Financial and Budget Management
- Effective service delivery across cluster
- Quality Management
- People Management
- WHS & Risk Management

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About you..*
We seek a self-motivated, practical, and diligent individual who is wanting to step up to a challenge and learn from a highly experienced multi-disciplinary team of managers while also furthering your career aspects.
**Essential Criteria**:

- Ability to successfully build, lead, manage and support a team of staff working in residential settings, - including performance management.
- Demonstrated experience working with adults with a disability, including people with autism, using a customer-focused approach including working with support plans (behaviour support, safety, lifestyle, NDIS) to provide service delivery and meet required outcomes (minimum 2 years).
- Current NSW unrestricted driver’s license essential.

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Desirable Criteria: *
- Demonstrated ability to work in partnership with families and significant others in the provision of support to the person with a disability, to include managing expectations.
- Experience in budget preparation and monitoring of financial systems.
- Ability to effectively manage a 24/7 staff roster across several locations.
- Well-developed communication, interpersonal and complaints management skills.
- Knowledge of NSW Disability Service Standards Funding Requirements and Disability Act policy guiding practice in residential services essential.
- Tertiary qualification in Social Science, Health, Community Management Disability, Human Services or another relevant professional field is highly desirable.

**What we offer...**
- Salary packaging + benefits
- Flexible Work Arrangements
- Competitive hourly rate
- Friendly and close-knit team environment
- Supportive and experienced leadership team
- Genuine career opportunities

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What’s next *
**Address the essential criteria in your cover letter and APPLY NOW.**
**Please note, only applicants that address this criteria will be considered.**
The successful applicant will be required to undergo pre-employment checks including but not limited to a current criminal record check working with children check, employment history and referee checks.
**All final applicants for this position will be requested to provide evidence of their COVID-19 vaccination immunisation record or medical exemption certificate as part of the recruitment process** _We do not provide sponsorship and no agencies please._

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**Salary**: Up to $15,900.00 per month