Manager, Child

**Who we are**:
Community Living Options (CLO) is a leading NDIS registered disability services provider. Our services are innovative and diverse, supporting people with disability and/or complex mental health to live in their own homes in the community in the least restrictive environment.

We promote great opportunities and a great life and value the positive contributions staff make in supporting people to achieve their goals and live the life they choose.

**Why Team CLO?**

CLO offers extensive opportunities to achieve your goals while positively impacting the lives of the people we support. We believe in innovation, quality and building relationships while upholding the rights of the people we support.

We also strive to ensure you have a positive workplace experience in a supportive and collaborative environment. CLO offers a range of employee benefits to support your experience and our positive culture; we want to give back to the people who give CLO and the people we support so much passion and energy.

Some of the benefits of joining Team CLO include:

- Career and development opportunities with clear pathways and access to career
- progression
- Salary packaging benefits (up to $15,899 p.a. tax-free)
- Free yearly flu vaccinations
- A range of leave entitlements Supportive and collaborative environments with access to one-on-one meetings with your leaders to support your personal learning and development

**About the Manager, Child and Youth Services**:
Under the general direction of the Executive Manager of Disability and Child and Youth Services, you will lead in the successful creation and implementation of the Child and Youth Services Department. You will promote and provide consistent service delivery in accordance with CLO's Vision, Mission and Purpose, Values and Code.

The role of the Manager, Child and Youth Services will ensure that plans are developed, assessed, reviewed and implemented appropriately. This role will be responsible for supporting Child and Youth Services Team Leaders and staff to ensure positive outcomes for our young people.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Provide leadership and operational management to CLO's child and youth services team while monitoring performance and outputs in accordance to CLO policy.
- Lead the implementation of evidence based, accountable and ethical child and youth services and child protection practices.
- Contribute to strategic planning and development with the Executive leadership team
- Build and maintain relationships with key internal and external stakeholders including children and families.
- Contributing in policy and procedure creation and reviewing processes.

**About You**

To become part of CLO's dynamic operations team, you will have a values match with CLO as a first vital point to success as well as an understanding of the NDIS and how this impacts young people, service providers and staff.

Qualifications and Essential Licences:

- Tertiary Qualifications (Bachelor's Degree) in relevant field such as community services, disability or social services.
- DHS Working With Children Clearance (WWCC) and NDIS Worker Screening
- Current 'C Class' Driver's Licence

You will also possess:

- In-depth and demonstrated knowledge and understanding of the Children and Young People Protection Act and other legislation's relating to Child Protection practice
- Proven ability to engage in high quality communication processes which facilitate clarification, negotiation and mediation.
- Experience in the management of changing environments
- High level of verbal and written communication
- Demonstrated leadership skills, providing training, coaching, mentoring, supervision to ensure ongoing development of knowledge and skills within department.
- Proven ability to establish and maintain professional networks.
- Experience with Microsoft Office Suite, in particular Microsoft Excel.

If you have any questions about our great employment opportunities, please call the Recruitment Team on 08 7221 9550.
- Community Living Options is an equal opportunity employer. People from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent and people with disabilities are encouraged to apply._