Team Leader Gdsp

**Gateway Development and Social Programs**

Location**: Wollongong, NSW

Position: Full-Time

**Benefits**:

- $40 - $44.99 per hour
- SCHADS Award Level 5
- Salary Packaging, package up to $15,900 per year tax free
- In addition to your tax-free benefit, you can also use up to $2,650 of your pre-tax income to pay for entertainment expenses (meals, holiday accommodation etc.)
- The flexibility to purchase additional annual leave
- An annual bonus scheme
- Enjoy work life balance with accrued days off
- With ongoing training and support, we care about your personal and professional development.
- Multiple career pathway opportunities available
- A rewarding and challenging role - make a difference in the lives of others.
- Be a part of an innovative Heath and Care Service
- Wollongong CBD location close to public transport

About the role
We are looking for a passionate, creative and entrepreneurial leader to develop and deliver programs enabling our clients to develop and grow based on the principles of social inclusion, choice and control, enablement, empowerment, and independence.
The role leads a small team of direct reports with a focus on developing and growing this business arm across all regions ensuring services are designed for quality and efficiency ensuring clients have a superior experience when participating in Community Gateway programs.

The person must be comfortable in a leadership role, with networking and business development, promoting the Community Gateway brand and be driven to create new business streams to meet existing need and attract new clients.

We are looking for someone who has
- Relevant tertiary qualifications or equivalent experience in the aged and disability care sector
- Demonstrated leadership skills and experience in management of multidisciplinary teams
- Proven experience in pursuing strategic opportunities to identify new markets, products and/services
- Commercially astute with the ability to manage budgets and staffing utilisation
- Well-developed current knowledge of the NDIS and My Aged Care
- Experience in developing, implementing and monitoring services and programs
- Experience in business development, creating new business streams and markets
- Proven experience in operational management with set organisational targets
- Exceptional interpersonal skills, including negotiation and conflict resolution skills.
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
- Effective time management skills
- Ability to travel between offices regularly
- Current driver license
- A current Working with Children Check and current NDIS Worker Screening Check.
- Proof of COVID 19 Vaccination or exemption

Community Gateway is committed to creating an inclusive and safe environment, where diverse styles, backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives are valued, encouraged, and respected. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and welcome applicants who identify as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander, with diverse gender identities and sexualities, have a disability, and/or form a culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) background to apply

About us
Community Gateway has been providing support and assistance to people with disability, older Australians and carers since 1988. Based in Wollongong with additional sites in Kempsey and Nowra we deliver services under the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), Commonwealth Home Support Programme (CHSP) and Home Care Packages (HCP). We have a focus on providing health and care solutions tailored to individual needs both in home, community and centre-based settings.

**Salary**: $40.00 - $44.99 per hour