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Manager - Glen Iris Withdrawal Residential Unit

Youth Support + Advocacy Service
  • Permanent Full Time (76 hours per fortnight)
  • Remuneration commensurate with RN4, SCHCADS 7 or RPN4 dependent on qualifications and experience + 9.5 % Employer superannuation
  • Generous salary packaging options available
  • Glen Iris location

About us

Youth Support + Advocacy Service (YSAS) is Australia’s largest and most comprehensive, youth specific community service organisation that enables young people experiencing serious disadvantage to access the resources and support they require to lead healthy and fulfilling lives.YSAS is a Child Safe organisation.

We actively promote the safety and wellbeing of young people, and are committed to protecting young people from harm or abuse who come into contact with and/or access our service. Applicants must undergo rigorous screening and recruitment processes, including providing evidence of current WWCC and National Police Check.

About the position

The YSAS Eastern Residential withdrawal unit is a 5 bed facility providing a residential AOD program for young people experiencing harm and significant problems relating to their AOD use.The Manager is responsible for the management of a 24 hour work environment over 7 days of the week. This includes overseeing quality and safety processes. Staffing, rostering, risk assessment and mitigation and ongoing program development.

Based at the Eastern Residential Withdrawal Unit, the Manager Eastern Residential withdrawal unit has a critical role in the development of business intelligence and identification of emerging trends that enable the delivery of high quality and clinically safe services and evidence based decision making within the organisation. The Manager Eastern Residential withdrawal unit holds a formal leadership role and therefore is responsible for inspiring a shared vision, modelling a values based approach, and creating a culture in which new ways of working are encouraged and enabled.

At YSAS more generally, each Manager leads a multidisciplinary team, delivering collaborative and innovative programs and responsive services to young people across their delivery area. Each YSAS Manager has responsibility for overseeing day to day operational management; coordination and implementation of supervision and support to staff (especially in the areas of crisis intervention, assessment, intensive case management) Additional responsibilities include the development and maintenance of service infrastructure, relationships with internal and external stakeholders and ongoing review and refinement of programs within their remit.

The Manager is considered a role model to staff and young people and should demonstrate consistently professional behaviour at all times.

Please note: service delivery aspects of the role may be modified in order to comply with Victorian Government COVID-19 guidelines.

For full details of the position, please view the POSITION DESCRIPTION below or visit our website www.ysas.org.au

Further Enquiries

For a confidential discussion about the position, please contact Rebecca Wardan on 0418 162 928.

  • YSAS is an equal opportunity employer and we welcome applications from all sectors of the community.
  • YSAS has a zero tolerance for child abuse and is committed to the provision of a child-safe organisation.

Due to the predicted volume of applications, please note you will only be contacted if you are successful in progressing to a first round interview.

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