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Team Leader

Uniting (Victoria and Tasmania) Limited

  • Leading Community Services Organisation
  • Salary packaging, and competitive sector remuneration
  • Part time hours (38 hours per fortnight)
  • Broadmeadows location

About the opportunity

The Aged and Carer Team Leader will work flexibly, primarily across the Northern and Western metro regions to lead a team of volunteers to enhance the connection between consumers living in Supported Residential Services. This Social Support program facilitates both 1 to 1 consumer/volunteer connections, as well as volunteer and staff-led special interest consumer groups. The Team Leader will also be integral in embedding the principles of wellness and reablement, ensuring the team retains a focus on supporting older people to engage in social activities of their choice. The Team Leader will require a range of skills that demonstrate an ability to develop innovative and flexible consumer directed care options and new program developments to meet consumer need.

About you

Essential Qualifications:

  • Relevant tertiary qualifications in Social Work, Welfare, Community Services or equivalent
  • Current Victorian Drivers Licence
  • Satisfactory police records check (repeated every 3 years) and international police check as required
  • Current Working with Children’s check

Experience:

  • Volunteer management
  • Supporting consumers who  have mental health issues, an intellectual or other disability, or other  age-related conditions such as dementia or age-related frailty.
  • Assessment and support planning; actively reflecting consumer choice and demonstrating the principles of wellness and reablement
  • Minimum of one year in people leadership; ideally with community Aged Care experience
  • Experience working in Aged Care or Disability and an understanding of Aged Care Quality Standards
  • Strong computer skills
  • Working within a changing environment and ability to adjust quickly to new processes
  • Demonstrated planning, organisational skills and attention to detail

About Uniting

At Uniting we are passionate about working together to inspire people, enliven communities and confront injustice. Visit us: www.vt.uniting.org.

Uniting is a child safe organisation and is committed in everyday practice to ensure the safety and wellbeing of all children, at all times. As a ‘child safe’ organisation, employment with Uniting is subject to a satisfactory national (and international where relevant) police check and Working With Children Check (in Victoria) and/or Working With Vulnerable People Check (in Tasmania) prior to commencement of any paid or unpaid work and/or participation in any service or undertaking.

Uniting is also committed to equal opportunity and ensuring the workplace is reflective of the community. We encourage people from different backgrounds to apply, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds and people with a disability.

A position description containing further information can be viewed here.

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