Regional Director Child Youth & Family QLD

• Join one of Australia's largest social purpose organisations
• Based in either North or South QLD (managing one of these regions)
• Suit child protection, youth justice, not for profit, NDIA backgrounds

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.

Reporting to the Director – Child, Youth and Family QLD, this role can be based anywhere throughout QLD and will manage either South or North QLD and can work a combination of in any of our offices and at home. Travel throughout the region will be required.

The Role

You will lead Operations Managers across either South or North Queensland to support Child, Youth and Family multidisciplinary teams and ensure foster care, residential care and post care services provide a culturally safe and supportive environment where young people can heal and grow.

Specifically you will:

• Encourage and model collaboration amongst teams to achieve high quality out of home care services
• Oversee the delivery, quality and compliance of services and program activities
• Support, coach, motivate and develop team members
• Build and maintain key relationships with stakeholders and funding and accreditation bodies
• Develop and implement business development activities and program growth strategies
• Meet relevant statutory regulations, funding agreements and accreditation standards
• Ensure continuous improvement, clinical governance, manage risk and operational budgets

Skills Required

You are an energetic, passionate leader with extensive experience in the management of human services programs within a child protection, out of home care or other complex service delivery environment, and you can demonstrate:

• High level facilitation, team leadership and ability to manage and support staff
• Experience supporting young people with a diverse range of backgrounds and challenges
• Strong ability to connect and quickly establish relationships with key stakeholders
• Commitment to Reconciliation and delivery of culturally sensitive leadership and services
• Experience working within a statutory framework and knowledge of legislation and regulation for care
• Financial and risk management expertise

Benefits & Culture

• Ethical, values driven organisation
• Generous remuneration including car allowance and NFP salary packaging
• Flexible working environment plus RDO entitlement of one day per month

How to apply

Simply click the?apply?button and follow the screen prompts. For any enquiries or a confidential conversation, please contact David Meere on 0418439728 

Applications?close Sunday 12th of June. 

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. 

Every day, Life Without Barriers offers support and care to children. We want every one of those children to feel as safe and respected as they should.

We Put Children First is our commitment to the safety and wellbeing of children. All staff and carers are required to be a part of this commitment, to recognise the difference between acceptable and unacceptable behaviours and understand the importance of speaking up about child safety concerns.

LWB work with clients from diverse cultural and social backgrounds with varied life experiences, physical abilities and interests and seek to employ people who reflect the great diversity of their clients. They know that your difference can be what makes the difference and therefore strive for an inclusive culture where you can be your whole self every day at work.

To be the best they can be, LWB actively seek people with disability, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, the LGBTQI community and people from culturally diverse backgrounds to join them to partner with people to change lives for the better.