The Role:

Due to our team growth, we have an exciting opportunity for a Team Leader to join our Paediatric Team. This is an ongoing role, involving job sharing with the current Team Leader, with the successful candidate working onsite 4-5 days per week (minimum 30 hours per week).

The Team Leader works as part of the leadership team to drive a positive team environment and Icarian culture, helping ensure Icaria is an inclusive and great place to work. The Team Leader will ensure that all Icarians within their team have the clinical and non-clinical support required to achieve their responsibilities and optimise therapy outcomes. The Paediatric Team Leader also takes a lead role in ensuring service delivery is family centred, evidence based and reflective of best practice standards and services are continually improved and adapted to meet the needs of children, their families, and the wider community.

About Us:

Icaria Health is locally owned and operated, with our team providing allied health services to the Border region. We have an Adult Therapy Team and a Paediatric Therapy Team based in Albury-Wodonga. We are progressive and are always looking to find better ways to provide therapy and care. We believe that Culture is Everything - our Icarians are amazing people and a recent survey revealed that Icarians feel valued, are highly satisfied and proud to work at Icaria.

The Icaria Health Paediatric team are responsible for delivering high quality Allied Health therapy for children 0-16 years in their natural environments. This is provided through a unique Key Contact Model of service provision to ensure strong collaboration between therapists, the child and all those who play a role in their life. Being a NDIS service provider, we aim to assist each child and family achieve their individual goals and aspirations. We do this through the application of our core values:

INTEGRITY, CARING, ACCESSIBILITY, RESPECT, INNOVATION, AMBITION.

www.icariahealth.com.au

Role Objectives

1. Ensure that all members of the Icarian Paediatric Team are having a great experience.
2. Ensure that all participants, and their significant others are having a great experience.
3. Live Icaria’s mission and values and collaborate kindly and efficiently with Icarians, including with therapists, the administration team and the management team.
4. Contribute to Icaria Health’s organisational growth, reputation and business development.
5. Contribute to retaining and attracting culturally aligned allied health professionals.
6. Enhance leadership skills and clinical knowledge to enable optimal support of the team.

Core Responsibilities

1. Communication: distribution of operational strategies and/or resources occurs fortnightly to support growth, service delivery and to highlight important organisational information.
2. Leadership: ensure team meetings are inclusive, supportive and engaging, with input from as many Icarians as possible.
3. Leadership: ensure 1-1 meetings are supportive and engaging, and focused on professional, career and personal goals.
4. Documentation: actions are commenced for all audits, incidents and feedback within two working days and closed within one month.
5. Growth: promote a growth culture, by overseeing the team’s professional development programs, ensuring continuous improvement projects occur, and driving staff retention.
6. Accountability: ensure that new staff have an exceptional first month, including the orientation checklist being completed within the allocated timeframe.
7. Resources: ensures that team resources are maintained and when new resources are requested, communicates and actions with team appropriately.

Benefits and Perks:

• Help lead the border's biggest and most experienced private team of therapists.
• Fleet car provided for personal and private use.
• Work phone and laptop provided.
• Above award pay rates.
• Generous individual external Professional Development budget and internal Development Program.
• Access to supervision and mentoring programs to enhance individual growth and development in leadership.
• No evening or weekend work and flexible work arrangements to suit individual needs - great work-life balance!
• Open door policy to the Directors and Operations Manager.
• Access to Employee Assistance Program.

Essential Selection Criteria:

1. Minimum 7 years of clinical experience.
2. Proven ability to drive a positive team environment and team culture.
3. Proven ability to support, mentor, direct and manage individual and team performance.
4. Exceptional organisational skills and the ability to manage competing demands.
5. Willingness to contribute to the ongoing growth and development of Icaria Health services.

Desirable Selection Criteria:

1. Experience in Leadership and/or Management
2. Post-Graduate Qualifications in Leadership and/or Management
3. Experience in NDIS and/or Community Care

CONTACT:

Contact us today for a fully confidential discussion and to obtain a position description.

Angela Sandral (Operations Manager): M: 0428 226 102; E: [email protected]

Peter Sirr (Director): M: 0411 102 322; E: [email protected]

APPLICATION PROCESS:

All applications are to be submitted via email to Angela at [email protected]. Please include in your application:

• A cover letter.
• 1-2 pages addressing the selection criteria.
• Your resume, including your latest manager and at least one (1) other professional referee.

***** APPLICATIONS CLOSE FRIDAY 11th APRIL 2025 AT 12.00PM *****

We may choose to interview (and hire) applicants prior to the closing date. Don't delay getting in touch, so that you can get to know our team and put your application in.