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Early Childhood Early Intervention Team Leader - Gosford

Lifestart Co-operative Ltd

About Lifestart

Lifestart is an Early Childhood Partner, delivering the National Disability Insurance Agency’s Early Childhood Early Intervention (ECEI) approach in the Central Coast region.

The Role

An exciting leadership opportunity has become available for an ECEI Team Leader to join our Gosford team. This is a full-time contracted position to June 2021. To find out more about the ECEI approach go to the NDIS website at www.ndis.gov.au.

The ECEI Team Leader will play a pivotal role in providing effective leadership enabling a high functioning and professional ECEI Team which includes; frontline coordinators and an administration officer. You will lead the team in a transdisciplinary approach to support individuals and their families and build capacity of local communities and mainstream services for the Central Coast Region.

You will also foster a culture that supports families of children living with development delay or disability by building strong collaborative partnerships with other local services in ways that build capacity for inclusion and lead to positive outcomes for children and their families.

What you will bring

  • A qualification in a relevant discipline including education, allied health or social sciences.
  • Current registration or eligibility for membership of relevant professional body where appropriate.
  • Minimum of five years’ experience of early childhood intervention.
  • Management qualification and/or demonstrated experience in management, preferably in the community sector and in work with children and families/carers.
  • Highly developed interpersonal skills and demonstrated ability to liaise and build collaborative positive working relationships with children, families/ carers and service providers.
  • Demonstrated leadership and change management skills, including ability to develop and support an effective team
  • Ability to foster a strengths-based approach to person and family centred practice to Lifestart personnel and the wider community.
  • Current Drivers Licence and access to a registered vehicle
  • Current Working with Children Check.

Our Benefits and Culture

  • Salary packaging options, which will increase your take home pay.
  • Generous leave entitlements
  • Travel allowance and latest technology.
  • Positive culture that promotes learning and growth, and as an organisation, we value and support the development and success of each individual.
  • Opportunity to be part of a forward-thinking disability organisation.
  • Contribute to equipping children with development delay and disability and their families/carers to lead inclusive lives within their community.

If you are highly motivated, are able to provide strong leadership and direction to a diverse team and are passionate about inclusion and the rights of children with disability, apply now to join the Lifestart team!

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