Disability Practice Leader

at; Österreich; Vor Ort; EUR 40 000 - 60 000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

A disability service provider in Australia is seeking a Practice Leader to manage a team and support residents in disability accommodation. Responsibilities include overseeing care plans, ensuring compliance, and building strong relationships with stakeholders. The ideal candidate has experience in the disability sector and holds a relevant qualification. This role offers an opportunity to enhance service delivery and support individuals in achieving their goals.

Qualifikationen

• Demonstrated experience overseeing disability accommodation services.
• Proficient in managing a team in a residential setting.
• Current driver's license required.

Aufgaben

• Lead a team supporting residents in disability accommodations.
• Manage compliance and health safety issues.
• Develop and maintain care/support plans.

Kenntnisse

Experience with residents with complex needs

Stakeholder relationship management

Negotiation skills

Mentoring and supervision

Ausbildung

Certificate IV in Disability or higher

Jobbeschreibung

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Thrive365 is a disability service provider supporting people with a disability on their path to thrive.

At Thrive365, we’re all about choice and partnership. We believe people should be able to choose how their NDIS funding is spent. We believe people should be able to choose the staff who support them, and this means everyone from your support coordinator to your therapist or gardener. We believe in championing the right of people with a disability to live, work, socialise and participate in the community, free of discrimination and unnecessary boundaries.

We believe that the best support comes from working in partnership. And we believe people should have control over their life so they can truly thrive. Our job is to support people to make and action those choices, so they achieve their goals.

Overview

Making it happen - your Role

We have an opportunity for a Practice Leader to join us on a fulltime basis, leading a team, supporting our residents in Wynnum.

We are all about working to co-design the support delivery with participants and their family that enables maximum choice and control for the people we support.

This is a fantastic opportunity to further develop Thrive365’s reputation as an outstanding provider in the area. To try new things and be more flexible in how we deliver a new era of support. Leading good practice and developing excellence in service, you will provide management support whilst supporting people to build community relationships.

You will maintain and enhance our high standards and build strong working relationships with our customers, regulators and other important stakeholders. This will include taking direct management responsibility for referrals, health and safety, compliance issues and financial control. You will also play an important strategic role in defining, developing and implementing our growth plans.

To be a great Practice Leader, you will need:

A relevant qualification within disability (Cert IV or higher)

Demonstrated experience in a similar role overseeing/coordinating disability accommodation service and managing a team of staff in a residential setting, including supervision and mentoring.

Experience working with residents with complex needs and behaviors of concern,

Ability to engage, build and maintain solid stakeholder relationships coupled with your sound negotiation and dispute resolution skills

A current driver\'s license, mandatory.

Main Duties

• Proactively promote a home like environment that enhance the well-being of people with disabilities and is welcoming of families, friends, and other visitors
• Confidently provide mentoring and leadership to a team to provide flexible services which meet the individual needs of people we support.
• Implement partnership in care approach to enable optimal health and well-being to be achieved, including the active involvement, of people with disabilities, their families and referrers in the identification of health care needs and the training of staff around individual needs and preferences.
• Develop, review, and actively maintain all the resident care/support plans in conjunction with all stakeholders, residents, families, and other service providers to ensure health care needs of residents are achieved.
• Ensure that restrictive practice approvals and reporting is in place, inclusive of compliant behavior support plans.
• Ensure a person centered and self-directed approach is embedded within the culture of the facility to maximize independence.
• Onboarding needs for Staff and Participants
• Participation in an on-call roster which includes staff and resident support outside normal business hours, weekends and overnight.
• You must have a positive attitude towards issues of intellectual disability and mental health and a comprehensive understanding of these issues in practice. With the ability to act as lead practitioner and develop the team’s skills via supervision and on the job coaching, you will have the aptitude to respond to the needs of a 24-hour service to include on call arrangements and a need to provide management cover when required and therefore a flexible approach is essential.

You will require

• A NDIS Workers Screening Check
• National Police Check
• First Aid Certificates
• Certificate or Higher related to disability industry

If this is you, please apply today!!

Qualifications

• A relevant qualification within disability (Cert IV or higher)
• Demonstrated experience in a similar role overseeing/coordinating disability accommodation service and managing a team of staff in a residential setting, including supervision and mentoring.
• Experience working with residents with complex needs and behaviors of concern
• Ability to engage, build and maintain solid stakeholder relationships coupled with sound negotiation and dispute resolution skills
• A current driver\'s license, mandatory

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• Do you have a current NDIS Worker Screening Check?
• How many years of people management experience do you have?
• Which of the following First Aid accreditations do you currently hold?
• How many years\' experience do you have in a training & development role?