House Supervisor. Permanent Full Time - Clayton

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About The Position

Life Without Barriers is a leading social purpose, not for profit 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, refugees and asylum seekers. Empowering people with disability to live life the way they choose is at the heart of how Life Without Barriers has operated for over 25 years. This is an exciting opportunity to join our team and continue this mission. Support people with disability to have the choice, control, and independence to live their best life. If you’re passionate about inclusivity, respect, and making a meaningful difference, this is the career move for you. 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. As a House Supervisor at Clayton you will provide leadership and supervision to a team of Disability Development and Support Officers supporting people with disability living in Supported Independent Living. The people being supported have high physical support needs, various medical needs and are non-verbal. To be successful in this role you will have strong experience in a high manual handling and medical needs environment and have leadership experience. This is a permanent full-time position with roster split of 76:00/76:00. Please see below set roster, successful candidates must be able to commit to this roster.

Requirements

Hold a Certificate 4 in Disability
Experience working in Supported Independent Living/Group Home settings
Experience providing behaviour support, manual handling and medical support
Leadership and mentoring experience
A current Senior First Aid (level 2) Certificate
A current unrestricted Victorian Drivers Licence
A commitment to supporting and promoting the individual needs, skills, abilities and personal goals of people with disabilities.
Successful candidates will be required to clear probity checks including a National Criminal History Record Check and an International Criminal History Record Check; if you have resided for 12 months or more outside of Australia in the last 10 years.

Responsibilities

Lead and plan support for people with disabilities to participate in a range of life areas based on the goals of individual support plans
Advocate on behalf of clients and their families, to support inclusion, participation and respect for rights
Administer medication treatments and therapies or seek appropriate medical assistance according to prescribed protocols
Work to develop and maintain team morale and effectiveness and provide day-to-day mentoring and best practice knowledge
Work to mentor and develop of staff through PDS
Manage 1st level performance management
Be professionally accountable for autonomous decisions that impact on clients and staff, made within bounds of department policy and with management support
Prepare detailed reports, data and notation within area of expertise or responsibility and identify areas of service improvement
Implementing positive behaviour management strategies
Implementing and supporting staff to engage in meaningful active engagement with clients with complex behaviours.
Ability to build positive staffing teams, leading through transitions.
Working with complex families to achieve positive outcomes.
Building workable relationships to improve outcomes for clients.