• Exciting new opportunity for one Practice Lead to mentor staff and jobseekers with disability, to achieve positive open employment outcomes.
• Full time, 38 hours per week (5 days)
• Excellent salary packaging and flexible remote in-community working environment.
• Comprehensive training in Customised Employment.

About Scope

Scope’s mission is to enable each person to live as an empowered and equal citizen. We support people with physical, intellectual and multiple disabilities and developmental delays to achieve their goals. Across Victoria, Scope provides services to thousands of people with a disability in more than 100 service locations.

Scope is a registered provider under the NDIS and delivers a range of services including supported independent living, short term accommodation (respite), lifestyle options and therapy.

Scope was recently named on the Australian Financial Review's Top 100 Most Innovative Companies' in Australia and New Zealand.

About The Role

Scope has an exciting and unique opportunity for a Customised Employment Practice Lead to work within our Customised Employment service.

Customised Employment is a process that is designed to personalise the employment relationship between a job seeker with disability and an employer in a way that meets the needs of both. If you truly believe in our mission to enable each person we support to live as an equal and empowered citizen, are able to put a person with disability at the centre, considers their environment, interests, skills and abilities then match them with employers in their local area, this may be the job for you.

You will have experience or passion about person-centred approaches. You will have a positive and open outlook on life, be able to work as part of a remote community-based team and have leadership qualities, coaching or mentoring experience. You will have had diverse experiences, in diverse environments and can make diverse connections and relationships in the community or have experience in business or employment practices. Take your career on a journey with Scope and work proactively with us to achieve our mission!

About You

• You have excellent leadership, communication, negotiation and/or counselling skills
• You have tenacity, creativity, and resilience
• You can collect, interpret, and use information and are well organised
• You can respect and relate to others

What We Offer

• Start date – week beginning January 11th 2021
• Excellent salary packaging and flexible remote in-community working environment
• CDERP Certified Customised Employment Professional © course
• Great team culture - supportive, inclusive and customer-centred
• Regular supervision, mentoring and coaching
• Mobile phone and laptop
• Travel allowance

Please direct enquiries to Emily Buxton for a position description and program guide on 0457 603 961 or email [email protected], using the subject line: Customised Employment Practice Lead enquiry via EthicalJobs.

Please note, the successful applicant will be required to hold a Working with Children Check and a Police Check issued in the last 12 months for employment in the Disability sector. If you have lived or worked for a continuous period of 12 months or more in another country within the last 10 years, a certified International Police Check from that country or countries will also be required.

A position description is attached.