- Ensure children and young people feel supported and heard with the underpinned support of our CARE practice framework.
- Up to $15,900 annual salary sacrifice & $2600 annual meal & entertainment card
- Competitive base salary + $17,500 vehicle allowance + 11.5% super
- Monthly RDO & Flexible work arrangements
- Work for one of Australia's largest social purpose organisations
About the Organisation
Every day, Life Without Barriers provides support and care to children and young people, as we work collaboratively with families, carers, and communities, to ensure they have the environment they deserve to grow. With a focus on ensuring safety and respect, this is an opportunity to make a positive and meaningful difference in these young lives and help pave a brighter future.
Life Without Barriers is a leading social purpose organisation of 8,000 employees working in more than 500 communities across Australia. We support children, young people and families, people with disability, older people and people with mental illness. We work with people who are homeless and refugees and asylum seekers. Join a community of people dedicated to breaking down barriers.
We want to employ people who reflect the diversity of our clients to ensure we can support each client's individual needs and wants. We encourage people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander background and people with disability to apply.
About the Role
We have a rare opportunity for an experienced Operations Manager to lead and support the service delivery and growth our Child Youth & Family Programs including Foster Care and Adolescent Programs on the Gold Coast.
This role will suit someone who is highly motivated, strategic and able to quickly grasp and respond to local needs. You will have experience in the senior management of Out of Home Care programs. You will use your business acumen and interpersonal skills to engage and work with multiple internal and external stakeholders, as well as promote LWB as a quality service provider.
Working in line with the CARE model you will strive to enhance the lives of young people in a residential and semi-independent settings, foster care & child youth and family programs including youth justice, family support and transition to adulthood programs, incorporating a therapeutic, trauma and domestic violence informed approach within the daily structure and purposeful programming.
There is a strong emphasis on leading your team to provide a secure base for our young people within the home, liaising with culturally appropriate services, and providing opportunities for the young people to connect with the culture in which they identify within.
This position is being offered as Permanent Full Time based in Robina with work from home flexibility.
Skills & Experience
- Degree qualification in Human Services or related discipline.
- Significant management experience in a similar program (Foster Care and/or Residential).
- Demonstrated understanding of Child Protection policies and framework.
- Familiarity with TCI, CARE and Safe and Together Model principles will be highly regarded.
- A demonstrated commitment to the care and protection of children and young people.
- Demonstrated experience in team leadership and development.
- Advanced interpersonal/communication skills, including verbal, written and negotiation.
- Demonstrated ability in time management and organisational skills.
- Well-developed problem-solving skills.
- Ability to use initiative, think laterally and strategically, and meet deadlines and produce quality work under pressure.
- Demonstrated ability to work with people from diverse cultural backgrounds with specific reference to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
- Ability to manage issues, risks and contentious matters.
- Current Drivers Licence.
Successful candidates will be required to clear probity checks including National Criminal History Record Check and Working with Children Check.
Benefits
- Excellent salary sacrificing tax benefits.
- Competitive base salary + $17,500 vehicle allowance + super + RDO per month
- A mobile phone, laptop, on-call roster allowance.
- A rostered day off per month.
How to Apply
Include your resume and covering letter in one document, click ‘Apply’ and follow the prompts. Candidates with disabilities who require adjustments to the recruitment process or the application form in an alternate format can visit https://www.lwb.org.au/careers/ for information on our access and inclusion work and how to contact us directly.
For confidential enquiries contact zina.campbell@lwb.org.ua with the subject heading 'Operations Manager – Robina’. Please note, we do not accept applications to either email address.
Applicants are encouraged to apply as soon as possible as applications may be reviewed prior to the closing date; and as such the closing date is subject to change without notice. Current application closing date is midnight Sunday 30th March 2025.