Team Leader, Regional and Hospital

Utilise your professional leadership expertise to provide support and advice to the Office of the Public Advocate
- 24-month fixed-term opportunity to work with a high-performing and passionate team in the Victorian Public Service
- VPS Grade 5.2: $116,552 - $127,621 plus superannuation

About the Business Unit
The Office of the Public Advocate (OPA) is an independent statutory office accountable to the Victorian Parliament which has been established to protect the rights and enhance the position of people with disabilities in Victoria.
The Advocate Guardian Program is a key OPA program and currently comprises the intake team, the NDIS/Rapid Response team, regional advocate guardian teams and the hospital guardianship team.

About the Role
The Office of the Public Advocate is going through a period of growth and transition and we are looking for someone who will be able to contribute to the processes of change and service improvement for people with disability.
In conjunction with the Director of Advocacy and Adult Protection and Manager, Advocacy and Guardianship, the Team Leader provides professional leadership, supervision, and support to a team of advocate guardians and guardianship support officers.
The Team Leader works collaboratively with the other Team Leaders in the Advocate Guardian Program to ensure that allocation of matters from VCAT is undertaken efficiently and equitably. The focus of this role is to support staff to provide person centred guardianship service, liaise with VCAT, operate effectively across multiple service systems such as aged care, health and NDIS, as well as deal with a range of complex matters including complaints and enquiries from bodies such as the NDIA, Victorian Ombudsman and the NDIS Quality and Safeguarding Commission.
The Hospital Team Leader deal with a range of hospital matters including the whole of state allocation and case conferences with hospital networks.

About you
- Experience in the Victorian human services sector and knowledge of theissues relating to disability, including mental illness and age-related disability as well as the intersection with the relevant legislative responsibilities that OPA operates under, for example the Guardianship and Administration Act 2019.
- Advanced Computer Skills - understands and applies advanced computer skills to complex word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, or database functions.

How to Apply

**FOR INTERNAL VPS EMPLOYEES**:
**IMPORTANT INFORMATION**:
The department is committed to providing and maintaining a working environment which is safe and without risk to the health of its employees consistent with the department's obligations under the Occupational Health and Safety Act 2004 (Vic). Therefore, there is a requirement that all DJCS employees be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 in order to undertake duties outside of their homes.

At interview stage and prior to commencement of employment with the department, you will need to provide evidence that you are vaccinated against COVID-19 with three doses of a COVID-19 vaccine.

Upon commencement of employment with the department you will be required to provide evidence that you have an up-to-date vaccination status within the timelines specified by the department into the DJCS Service Portal. This includes evidence of three doses of a COVID-19 vaccine required by the department (from time to time).

**Acceptable evidence includes**:
COVID-19 digital certificate (available via your myGov account)

Your immunisation history statement (available via your myGov account)

Other documentation outside the above will not be accepted as evidence of having received your COVID-19 vaccine doses.