Team Leader

**Full time position based in Hurstville**:

- ** TRP beginning at $114,000 inclusive of Super + Salary Packaging**:

- **Flexible Friendly organisation, hybrid work options available**

Our Intensive Family Support program offers voluntary in home family support to families who are at risk of entering or re - entering the Child Protection System. Through case management and effective relationship building, we aim to strengthen families so children can live at home safely, free from abuse and neglect.

**About the Role**:
Our Fostering Young Lives program provides foster care placements across Sydney for children and young people from birth to 18 years of age. We put the child at the centre of our service and offer ongoing and coordinated support services to best meet the needs of children and their carers. Our professional, qualified staff provide evidence based training for carers so they feel supported in the work they are doing.

Our Fostering Young Lives program has an exciting opportunity for a motivated professional to join our varied and highly engaged team covering the based out of our Hurstville office.

As Team Leader of our Fostering Young Lives (FYL) program you will be focused on ensuring your team are positioned to provide exceptional services to children and families so they can feel safe and secure. Reporting to the Deputy Manager of Operations, and managing a team of 6-7 direct reports, you will have proven experience within Child Protection and/or Out of Home Care and will be familiar with the Permanency Support space in Out of Home Care.

**Duties**
- As part of a supportive and creative leadership team you will champion service improvements and practice excellence to ensure the best outcomes for children and their families
- Maximise outcomes for staff, carers, young people and their families through collaboration, by capitalising on the practice experience and strengths across TBS
- As a leader you will play an important role in fostering and supporting a positive, collaborative and outcome focused team culture
- You will model and guide your team around the setting of professional boundaries with clients
- You will use your expertise to provide advice and assistance to team members in assessments of risk, safety planning and trauma informed decision-making for carers, young people and their families
- You will provide clear focused leadership and professional supervision.
- You will support, guide and lead the team to complete day to day case management tasks
- Supporting the team to provide carer supervision and support to carers who provide care to young people

**Our Benefits**

We support people to live their best life. That includes you, our employee. A ‘best life’ is unique to everyone and can change as life changes. Here are a few things you might be interested in:

- **Salary Benefits** -** You can package up to $15,900 pa of you pre-tax salary to pay for everyday expenses before income tax is calculated, meaning you take home even more pay
- **Motor Vehicle Packaging Options** - **to suit your lifestyle.
- **Work/Life Balance** - **Flexible work arrangements including hybrid home/office work arrangements, 1 accrued day off a month for full time employees (that’s an extra 12 days off per year).
- **Recognition and Reward** - **Sector competitive remuneration, various recognition programs and access to long service leave after 5 years
- **Wellness **-** Fitness passport + Employee Assistance Program + opportunity to purchase additional leave.
- **Professional development** - **We tailor career development opportunities to all employees and volunteers for career enrichment, fulfilment, and growth.
- **Our Reconciliation Commitment** - a First Nations employees are entitled up to 10 days of unpaid leave for ceremonial purposes, as well as the option to be a voice on our RAP working group, and have the opportunity for cultural and professional development that supports career pathways.

**Skills and Experience**

You will have a degree qualification in Allied Health, Social Work, Psychology or related discipline and:

- ** Program Leadership** - experience managing and leading programs in the Community Services sector
- ** People Leadership** - experience building/maintaining an engaged, high performing team and developing their capability
- ** Practice Leadership** - a passion for continuous improvement and implementing industry best practice into service delivery
- **Flexible & Collaborative Approach** - lead this innovative team/program and engage a range of stakeholders
- Excellent understanding of child protection issues & client vulnerabilities, and the impact of trauma and the effect on child behaviour and development
- Strong skills and experience in assessing, identifying and addressing child protection concerns
- Ability to multi-task and prioritise in a fast paced environment, ever changing environment
- Holistic strengths based approach to achieve lasting chang