Allied Health Team Leader

**Description**:

- ** Brand New Leadership opportunity** in a Community Allied Health Service
- ** Salary Packaging**: Up to $15,900 salary packaging per financial year
- ** Benefits**: Fitness Passport & HCF Private Health Insurance discounts
- ** Extra Leave**: 4 weeks annual leave + additional 5 days leave
- ** Career growth**:Genuine career opportunities
- ** Work life balance**:Flexible work arrangements
- ** Salary**:Competitive remuneration

**About us...**

Royal Rehab LifeWorks is **part of the Royal Rehab Group, Australia's leading provider of disability and rehabilitation services**.

Representing a broad range of professions, our people are united by our values of honesty, respect, working together and innovative thinking. We are inspired by a commitment to clinical excellence and personalised care.

Royal Rehab LifeWorks provides rehabilitation services to people experiencing illness, injury, or disability to improve their overall wellbeing through individually tailored programs and world-leading technology. Our approach is informed by world-leading best practice and ultimately guided by the customer
- their needs, their goals, their aspirations.

A career with Royal Rehab LifeWorks is an opportunity to collaborate, grow and make a difference with an iconic organisation recognised as a leader in rehabilitation and disability support.

**About the role..**

An exciting role exists for a highly motivated and energetic Allied Health Team leader within our LifeWorks service at our new Royal Rehab LifeWorks service in Penrith. In this this role you will be leading a dynamic, multidisciplinary team who are committed to empowering and enhancing the lives of our clients.

**Key Responsibilities include**:

- ** **Ensure that allied health staff at LifeWorks Penrith are delivering goal centred clear customer plans and that progress is being recorded against their
- Assist the allied health general manager with allied health customer acquisition and retention by liaising with identified partners, networking with referral partners and assisting staff with local opportunities,.
- Understand and promote the range of services offered by Royal Rehab LifeWorks
- Monitor and coach employees to ensure they understand and achieve a high level of performance and efficiency
- Undertake professional development initiatives or performance management processes as required
- Ensure the effective deployment of employees and other resources to customers on a daily basis
- Assist with local recruitment and onboarding of new staff
- Maintain a suitable clinical load, in line with relevant discipline area to ensure recency of practice and knowledge
- Work within and support the LifeWorks Allied health leadership team to achieve growth goals and improve brand awareness

**About you..**:
We seek a self-motivated and professional leader who has previous experience coaching or leading an allied health team. An ability to think creatively, adapt to change will be crucial, as you lead the Penrith allied health team through an exciting period of growth and transformation,

**Essential Criteria**:

- Allied Health qualification (Psychology, Social work, Counselling, Occupational Therapy or Speech Pathology)
- Minimum 2 years - clinical experience
- Experience in delivering Person Centred Multidisciplinary Services
- Ability to analyse and act on employee and performance data
- Advanced organisational skills with high level attention to
- Excellent customer service
- High level problem solving and decision-making
- Advanced written and verbal communication
- Strong influencing and negotiating skills with a proven ability to manage
- Knowledge of National Disability Insurance Scheme
- Working with children check (or willing to obtain)
- Criminal history checks (3mths since applying)
- Current driver’s license
- NDIS Worker Screen (or willing to obtain one is essential)

**What we offer...**
- **Salary Packaging**: Up to $15,900 salary packaging per financial year
- ** Benefits**: Fitness Passport & HCF Private Health Insurance discounts
- ** Career growth**: Genuine career opportunities
- ** Work life balance**: Flexible work arrangements
- ** Salary**: Competitive remuneration
- ** Leadership**:Supportive and experienced leadership team
- ** Culture**: Friendly and close-knit team environment

We are proud of our diverse and skilled team of passionate healthcare and support professionals committed to delivering the very best for the people we serve. A career at Royal Rehab is the opportunity to make a difference with a progressive and innovative organisation, built on a rich history of community care since 1899.

**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 may be required to undergo pre-employment checks including but not limited to a current criminal record check working with