About Community Living Project

Community Living Project (CLP) partners with people with disability and their families to self-direct support and live purposeful, connected and valued lives in their communities. Established in 1984 and grounded in family leadership, CLP’s mission is to assist people with disability to live their own unique and purposeful life of inclusion through home, relationships, competencies and highly valued roles in community.

About the role

Reporting to the CEO, the Manager – Community Living Services leads day-to-day operations across CLP’s Community Living Services. You will support Community Living Facilitators, strengthen individualised arrangements, uphold CLP’s values and ensure services are safe, sustainable and aligned with each person’s vision for a good life.

This role suits a calm, thoughtful leader who can balance operational complexity with respect for people with disability, families, workers and community.

• Location: Christies Beach, South Australia, with services delivered across community settings
• Employment: Common law employment arrangement
• Flexible work arrangements are available

What you’ll do

• Provide day-to-day operational leadership across Community Living Services.
• Lead, supervise and mentor Community Living Facilitators, supporting reflective practice, accountability and values-aligned decision making.
• Work with people and families to ensure supports are individualised, person-centred and grounded in each person’s interests, strengths, relationships and aspirations.
• Build effective working relationships with people supported by CLP, their key loved ones, workers, facilitators and external stakeholders.
• Oversee incidents, complaints, safeguarding, risks, documentation and escalation.
• Manage resources, compliance, continuous improvement and organisational learning.

About you

You are a calm, organised, values-driven leader with experience in disability, community services, allied health, nursing or another human services setting. You bring strong skills in supervision, risk management, safeguarding, communication, budgeting and compliance, and share CLP’s belief that people with disability are people first, with gifts, aspirations and contributions to make.

Special conditions

• Current NDIS Worker and Working With Children Checks
• Current Driver’s Licence
• Commitment to CLP’s philosophy, mission, values and organisational expectations

Why join CLP?

Join an organisation with a long history of inclusion, innovation and family leadership. You will help lead services that support people to build ordinary, meaningful and connected lives at home and in community

next steps

To submit your application, please click ‘Apply now’ by the closing date.

For further information, contact Sally Strzelecki, Manager – CLS, on (08) 8384 7866 or [email protected] using the subject line: Manager – Community Living Services enquiry via EthicalJobs.