Team Leader|After Hours

• Leadership alongside another Team Leader with responsibility for an After Hours Service
• Strengthen existing practices and further build our capacity to provide a high-quality service
• Normal business hours|9am-5pm|28 team members a casual workforce|permanent

Make your mark:

Anglicare Victoria has delivered an organisation wide central After Hours service since 2019. Our inaugural Program Manager is retiring and so a fantastic opportunity is now available for you to step into their shoes and build upon the fantastic outcomes they achieved.

The team you will lead provides an out of business hours crisis response across the organisation for programs including, but not limited to: Residential Care, Home Based Care, Targeted Care Packages, Lead Tenant, Youth Refuge, Village 21 and our Sibling Support Program. The service provides high quality risk assessment, advocacy, and will coordinate and manage any complex issues which arise.

The day to day:

• Effectively lead and manage your team alongside another Team Leader.
• Provide day-to-day support, advice and coaching to your team in respect of the development of individuals and the collective team.
• Regularly catch up with your manager to discuss actions, progress and improvements.
• Monitor performance targets, outcomes, quality standards in service agreements, legislative and policy requirements.
• Ensure the service delivered by afterhours service support Program delivery within the regions.
• Ensure appropriate Training and Development Plans are in place for all employees.

Key skills:

• Highly developed skills in risk assessment and responding to and managing complex, high risk and crisis situations across statutory and other services.
• High level understanding and extensive operational experience working in the child protection, placement and support services, Out of Home Care service systems.
• Recruitment of a dynamic, highly skilled workforce.
• Working in a dynamic, crisis driven, emergency response environment.
• Roster management.
• People management in a complex team that works remotely and after hours.
• Ability to lead, manage and motivate staff and create a workplace culture based on cooperation, teamwork and common pursuit of organisational objectives.
• Maintain high standards in a high risk environment.

Why Choose Anglicare Victoria?

Life's made of moments. Anglicare Victoria faces them head on. Moments of crisis, moments of change, moments of magic. Moments that make up the everyday, or change the course of a person's life. Some are quiet, some are loud. Some are happy, some are sad. Whether fire or flood. Belief or despair. Joy or grief. We're there.

Day in, day out, vulnerable people and families lean on Anglicare Victoria through these moments - from childhood to parenthood, and all the messy bits in between.

What makes this such a great role for you:

• $117,473 plus super plus access to salary packaging.
• SCHCADS level 7.2
• The role works within standard business hours (some flex required)
• Office location is Collingwood for meetings with work from home days available.
• A culture that promotes teamwork, working together to achieve better outcomes.
• We are the largest provider of Out of Home Care in Victoria.
• An opportunity for you to think differently.
• We take the Health and Wellbeing of our people seriously offering a Well Worth It Program, EIP and EAP.
• Access to discounted health insurance as well
• A diverse and inclusive workplace for you to feel safe, acknowledged and included.
• Our people are our biggest asset, we will support you to progress your career with a dedicated L&D team.

What our people say. "There's a kindness in the way the organisation deals with its people. It still feels like a smaller agency, with that sense that it has amazing influence, which is led from the top, but then there's this respect between the regions as well. It's like it's family, but it's so influential in the industry as well."

Ready to take the next step?

The closing date is Sunday 15th June.

The advert is only supposed to be an overview. To discuss the details of the role or to ask any questions please reach out to Emily Flett Program Manager After Hours Service via email at ***********

To apply for this position all you need to do is click apply wherever you are and attach a resume and a brief cover letter that describes your motivation to apply highlighting your experience leading teams in a high risk environment.

Please Note: It is mandatory for the successful applicant to hold a current Working with Children Check and be prepared to undergo a National Criminal History Check prior to commencement.

Anglicare Victoria acknowledges Aboriginal people as the traditional custodians of the land on which we operate. We commit to working respectfully to honour their ongoing cultural and spiritual connections to this country.

Diversity and inclusivity are important to Anglicare Victoria and we are committed to ensuring our workplace and services reflect this. Everyone is welcome at Anglicare Victoria, regardless of age, ethnicity, cultural background, gender, sexual orientation, religious affiliation and physical ability.