Roster Officer. Permanent Full Time - NSW Flexible Location

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

In this role you will create and oversee employee rosters, dedicated to meeting the specific needs of our Children and Young People by appropriately staffing our residential Intensive Therapeutic Care services. Applying your high developed interpersonal skills, you will foster confidence and trust among internal managers and team members, all while ensuring that our employees are scheduled in a manner that upholds and advances workforce sustainability.

This Permanent Full-Time position offers flexibility, allowing you to work from anywhere within NSW, either from home or your preferred office location.

Key responsibilities

• Develop and maintain staffing rosters in accordance with the needs of Children and Young People, funding allocations, budget, employee conditions and award requirements.
• Communicate and coordinate with stakeholders as required in response to workforce/roster changes, roster concerns and complaints
• Manage employee availability and leave calendars in consultation with leaders
• Escalate rostering and staff skill gaps, and work with line managers to identify solutions

Skills & Experience  

• Prior experience within high volume rostering, scheduling and/or workforce planning role
• Previous experience in the utilisation of rostering software systems (MS Teams rostering experience if preferred)
• Demonstrated understanding of the SCHADS award, HSE and workforce management principles
• Demonstrate experience managing competing priorities to deliver outcomes within required timeframes
• Highly developed interpersonal, communication and problem-solving skills
• Ability to work cohesively within a team environment and with autonomy

Successful candidates will be required to clear probity checks including National Criminal History Record Check and Working with Children Check (where applicable to role)

To be considered for and appointed to a position at Life Without Barriers, you must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 with a minimum of two (2) doses or hold a valid medical exemption certificate, in accordance with Life Without Barriers Employee COVID-19 Vaccination Policy. You will be required to provide evidence of your vaccination status during the recruitment process

Benefits: 

• Flexible work arrangements – Work from anywhere in NSW
• Generous Salary Packaging benefits - $15,900 per year, tax free!
• Monthly Rostered Day Off (RDO)

How to Apply 

Include your resume and covering letter in one document, click ‘Apply’ and follow the prompts. For any enquiries including persons with disability that require adjustments, contact Emma Kennedy at recruitment@lwb.org.au  

Applications close at midnight on Sunday 25th February 2024

Applicants are encouraged to apply as soon as possible as applications are continuously reviewed prior to the closing date; and as such the closing date is subject to change without notice.

Life Without Barriers supports the Royal Commission into violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation of people with disability. We believe people with disability need to be heard and for these experiences to influence how support services like ours are delivered. View our statement here (https://bit.ly/2GzZGWA)