• This is a permanent Full-time role and available for immediate start.

Remuneration and Benefits

• Level 6 SCHADS Award.
• $106,397 - $111,092 per annum excluding super and attractive salary packaging options.
• Four weeks of annual leave per annum plus leave loading as well as additional paid leave during the Christmas closure.
• Staff are eligible to salary sacrifice a portion of their base salary (up to $15,900).

An OPPORTUNITY to Make a difference

Caxton Community Legal Centre is a community legal centre whose purpose is to promote and protect human rights in Queensland through access to justice. Caxton provides accessible legal information so people know their rights and can prevent or respond to legal problems. Prioritising those who experience disadvantage, trauma and marginalisation, Caxton provides free, high-quality legal assistance and social supports.

Reporting to an Executive Management Team member, the Manager, Client Services leads the Client Services team who play a key role in Caxton's strategic objective of high quality, accessible, client and community focused services. This role provides direct services as well as leadership, supervision and support to a team of staff, students and volunteers.

Client Services is the first point of contact for many members of the community, not merely a pathway to the Centre’s legal and social support programs; it is a vital service that delivers impactful early intervention through prompt issue identification; trauma-informed and client-centered support; accurate legal information and referrals; and empowerment of clients to act early. The Manager ensures that the team operates with a commitment to human rights, cultural safety and service excellence in a dynamic community and technological environment.

Key accountabilities

• Provide direct community and client services via rostered phone, reception and technology shifts to meet team and organisational deliverables.
• Lead, supervise, train and support the Client Services team to deliver high quality, trauma-informed intake, triage, information, referral, reception and mail services
• Line manage Client Services personnel
• Appropriately negotiate with internal stakeholders and allocate resources to meet rostering needs, client expectations and overall deliverables
• Identify and respond, including through collaboration, to emerging client needs and systemic access issues through Client Services strategies aligned with Caxton’s Theory of Change.
• Ensure trauma-informed, culturally responsive, and human rights-based approaches are embedded in service delivery
• Contribute to strategies that aim to improve Client Services staff and volunteer engagement, wellbeing and retention.
• As a member of the Senior Management Team (SMT) contribute to Centre-wide innovations and practice improvements with a focus on client/community access, client experience and seamless pathways with legal and social support teams
• Review and analyse client call, intake, wrap-up codes, and other client services program data produced by the Data Operations Team, and report to the SMT and EMT on trends, service performance, and provide recommendations regarding operations and strategy

Essential requirements

• Tertiary qualification in a relevant discipline (including but not limited to community services, social work, law or health)
• Demonstrated experience in leading client service or intake functions in a legal, health or community service setting
• Strong understanding of early intervention principles related to the functions of intake, triage, information and referral services.
• Experience in providing and leading service delivery for community/clients experiencing disadvantage, vulnerability or complex needs, utilising and promoting person centered, trauma informed approaches
• Advanced level of interpersonal, leadership and team management skills including the ability to work respectfully with people experiencing vulnerability or crisis
• High level of computer literacy and competency in major administration software packages such as Microsoft (Outlook, Excel, Word) and SharePoint
• Ability to ‘think on your feet' and work independently in the absence of specific instruction 
• Excellent time management skills and the ability to multi-task and meet relevant deadlines 
• Ability to appropriately deal with sensitive and highly confidential information with a high level of integrity, tact, discretion and judgement
• High level attention to detail

Why caxton legal?

Caxton Legal Centre has played a central part in Queensland’s legal landscape over the past 50 years, leading the state’s first Stolen Wages case, successfully representing well over 100 victims of the 2011 floods, and paving the way for multidisciplinary service delivery to people experiencing elder abuse.

We are an engaged, passionate and talented group of lawyers, social workers and administrative staff with whom you are encouraged to collaborate with and learn from in order to meet our client’s needs.

Our full-time staff enjoy a 35 hour working week paid at the full-time Award rate, with time off in lieu if additional approved hours are worked.

Paid Christmas leave is provided during the office shut-down period to New Years in addition to four weeks paid annual leave.

Caxton is currently experiencing significant growth and change across many of its programs; these roles represent investments into the future of our service delivery and capabilities across South-East Queensland.

A position description is attached below.