Team Leader - Homeconnect

St Vincent De Paul; Melbourne; Presencial; AUD 80 000 - 84 000; Tempo parcial

Vantagens oferecidas por esta oferta de emprego

Salary packaging

Career development

Employee Assistance Program

Social justice culture

Resumo da oferta

VincentCare Victoria in Glenroy seeks a Team Leader - HomeConnect to supervise a multidisciplinary team delivering prevention-focused housing services. You will guide staff, manage brokerage funds, and ensure data collection and reporting align with program funding and goals.

You will lead client-centred care, collaborate across teams and external agencies, and drive continuous improvement while balancing operational responsibilities with staff development and outcomes for people at risk of

Qualificações

• Tertiary qualification in human services, social work or another relevant discipline.
• Knowledge of housing and homelessness sector, policy and service contexts.
• Experience leading, supervising and supporting staff with complex needs.
• Strong, strengths-based and solutions-focused case management.
• Ability to collaborate across multidisciplinary teams, programs and external agencies.
• Leadership capabilities including communication, initiative, creativity and problem-solving.
• Oversee program administration: brokerage expenditure, caseloads, referrals, data collection and reporting.
• Current full Victorian Driver’s Licence.

Responsabilidades

• Oversee a team of case managers and multidisciplinary staff.
• Provide guidance, supervision and professional development.
• Support brokerage management, data collection and reporting.
• Liaise with managers to ensure program funding and service agreements are met.
• Collaborate with other teams to deliver client-centred services and brokerage support.

Conhecimentos

Leadership

Supervision

Communication

Collaboration

Analytical skills

Formação académica

Tertiary qualification in human services or social work

Descrição da oferta de emprego

Job description

Posted Sunday 8 November 2026 at 1:00 pm | Expires Monday 30 November 2026 at 12:59 pm

Make a real difference

Be part of one of Victoria’s leading not-for-profits and help create meaningful change in the community every day.

Location

Northern Community Hub – Glenroy

Work type

Part Time - Ongoing

Salary

SCHADS 6 $58.37 to $60.95 per hour + Superannuation + NFP Salary Packaging

Working model

On Site

About the role

The Team Leader - HomeConnect oversees a team of case managers and multidisciplinary staff committed to preventing homelessness in the private rental and community housing sectors through a focus on prevention and early intervention.

In this role, the Team Leader - HomeConnect is responsible for offering guidance and supervision to a team consisting of key workers, specialised housing staff, a Financial Counsellor, and an Educational and Employment Worker. This involves providing support for professional development, practice improvement, financial management, data collection, reflective practice, and other positive contributions to the program. The position also entails reporting responsibilities, including monitoring brokerage requests and funds, along with data collection and report writing.

Close collaboration with the Team Leader - Key Workers ensures that clients receive comprehensive, client-centred support to reach their goals. Together with Key Workers, clients can access brokerage services to accomplish the objectives identified during their involvement with the HomeConnect program.

Directly reporting to the Manager - HomeConnect, the Team Leader - HomeConnect works in tandem with the Team Leader - Key Workers to ensure the program delivers optimal services to clients while adhering to its funding and service agreements.

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About You

You are an experienced and supportive people leader with a strong understanding of the housing, homelessness or broader community services sector. You are confident supervising multidisciplinary teams and supporting staff working with clients who may have complex needs.

You bring a collaborative leadership style, strong communication skills and the ability to build effective relationships across teams, programs and external agencies. You are comfortable balancing people leadership with operational responsibilities such as caseload oversight, brokerage management, reporting and continuous improvement.

Most importantly, you are committed to delivering respectful, rights-based and client-centred services that create meaningful and sustainable outcomes for people experiencing or at risk of homelessness.

Key Requirements

• Tertiary qualification in human services, social work or another relevant discipline.
• Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of the housing and homelessness sector, including relevant policy and service contexts.
• Demonstrated experience leading, supervising and supporting staff, particularly those providing case management to clients with complex needs.
• Strong understanding of best-practice, strengths-based and solutions-focused case management.
• Proven ability to collaborate effectively across multidisciplinary teams, programs and external agencies to achieve positive client outcomes.
• Strong leadership capabilities, including communication, initiative, creativity, problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Ability to oversee program administration, including brokerage expenditure, caseloads, referrals, data collection and reporting.
• Knowledge of relevant statutory, organisational and workplace requirements.
• Current full Victorian Driver’s Licence.

Why join Vincentcare?

• Salary packaging, sometimes called salary sacrificing is a huge attraction here! It is a popular way of providing employees in the community sector with tax benefits over and above their salary. It means the real value of a salary package can be significantly higher than the nominal value.
• Career Development opportunities
• Employee Assistance Program
• We offer a place where you know you are contributing to a firm committed to helping others. We are passionate about #SocialJustice.

About Vincentcare Victoria

VincentCare Victoria is an award-winning organisation established to provide a range of accommodation and support services to people that are facing disadvantage throughout metropolitan and regional Victoria.

We are a leading community-focused organisation dedicated to supporting people experiencing disadvantage, including homelessness and those impacted by family violence. We are committed to the principles of social justice and aim to ensure every individual is treated with dignity and respect regardless of their cultural background, ability, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation or religion.

VincentCare has over three hundred dedicated, talented and enthusiastic staff working across a range of programs and services and offers a number of benefits including career development opportunities; salary packaging; study leave; family friendly, flexible working environment.

VincentCare is committed to demonstrating the principles of self-determination, reconciliation, intersectional inclusion, equity, and social justice. This means that we will resolutely:

• Take specific steps to ensure that all staff, volunteers and clients feel valued and are treated with dignity and respect.
• Celebrate people’s diverse physical and cognitive abilities, mental or cognitive health status, cultural background and ethnicity, gender identity, sex characteristic, sexual orientation, age, faith or non-faith.
• Critically review our work to identify disadvantages and we actively seek to place the voices and expertise of marginalised people at the centre of our actions when improving our inclusion strategies.
• Lead by example in how we challenge disadvantage and contribute to a more equitable world which is free from discrimination and marginalisation.

Want to know more?

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Important information

• Pre-employment checks are required (including National Police Check, Working With Children Check and right to work)
• We are committed to child safety
• We value diversity and inclusion and strongly encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and people of all backgrounds

Applications close: 20th September 2026

No agencies please.

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Job details

Pay typeHourly

Job start dateSunday 8 November 2026

Job end dateSunday 29 November 2026

Glenroy VIC 3046, Australia