Team Leader

Aura Lifestyle Services Ltd

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Yeronga, Brisbane QLD

Aged & Disability Support (Community Services & Development)

Up to 38 hours per week

$43 – $65 per hour

Team Leader (including direct support)

Aura Lifestyle Services Ltd

Yeronga, Brisbane QLD

Aged & Disability Support (Community Services & Development)

Permanent Role up to 38 hours per week (3 monthly probation period)

Commencing as soon as possible post recruitment process

PERM LVL 4.1 Base $43.08 Sat $64.62 Sun $86.16

Team Leader including direct support – up to a Full-time Position - (YERONGA)

Are you a person with a clear vision of what is possible for those who live with a disability and are you ready to take this opportunity to lead a team?

We are seeking a Team Leader (including direct support hours) commencing as soon as possible.

We are looking for a person who can contribute to and build on a successful team and then lead this team utilising your values, skills and experience to maintain and develop a positive and effective team culture and great outcomes for a woman with disability.

Aura Lifestyle Supports PTY LTD is seeking a Team leader to assist a very sociable woman in her early 50’s who has an intellectual disability to live her best life. Her passions and interests include art, dance, music, performance, fitness, cooking, travel and hanging out with family and friends. She is very social and is an active member of her local community. Very caring in nature the lady thrives when her gifts and talents are encouraged, celebrated, and utilised.

The lady lives in her own place close by to her immediate family, she requires 24/7 support to live independently and to engage with her family, friends and local community. She has a support team that assist her with all aspects of life including home duties, personal care, health and wellbeing and accessing activities that focus on her passions, interests and goals.

The Role

This lead role will work in close partnership with the lady, her family and her circle of friends who will assist to guide, mentor and transfer their knowledge of what is successful for her. The lady has the capacity to make many decisions for herself and she clearly exercises her rights of choice and control.

We are seeking someone who has strong leadership and administration skills. Along with leadership, coordination and administration tasks, you will spend time on roster each week directly supporting this lady to ensure you are building a valuable relationship, so she feels safe and listened to. Immersing yourself in her life through providing direct support will assist you to fully understand who she is, her needs, passions and goals, providing you with a foundation to contribute to her and her family's vision for her life. Other day to day activities include:

Supporting the vision of a meaningful life and rich relationships by focusing on both formal (paid) and informal (unpaid) support.

Providing excellent support and supervision to support staff you will lead through team meetings, mentoring, coaching and development.

Creating and overseeing staff rosters, timesheets and overseeing daily shift notes and provide relevant organisational reports each week and month

Overseeing maintenance of her home

Supporting the person to nurture her existing relationships and to co-ordinate and resource a range of activities and opportunities for her to grow networks within her community.

Ensuring there is consistency to her daily routine as well as flexibility to respond to her social events calendar.

Attending medical, therapeutic, and other appointments as directed by her family

Ensuring that her home and living environment is safe, attractive, clean and welcoming.

Be a bridge between the lady/her family and support workers – ensuring the needs of all involved are met whilst focusing on the lady’s/family vision.

Ensuring that information is shared with family, friends and the organisation.

You will be supported with training, mentoring and direct contact with family and our leadership team through this process.

We are looking for the availability and commitment to work daytime, weekends and some overnights within a set fortnightly roster, with each shift being a minimum of eight hours. You will have up to 12 hours per week off roster to manage and support other aspects of her life, the team of staff and met organisational administration requirements. You will be required to facilitate and lead a Team Meeting every 4-6 weeks including arranging attendance, the agenda and minutes.

About You

You are a person with a strong capability to listen and learn. A person with a level of confidence, calmness, self-assurance, and the ability to be a critical and reflective thinker. A person who has experience in, or the ability to learn all aspects of supporting people with support needs to live their best lives. You will be organised, forward thinking and be able to plan accordingly.

Your communication is exceptional. You understand how to effectively communicate information to the lady and a variety of people in her life, whilst respecting family values and decisions, and promoting a culture of integrity, respect, privacy and confidentiality. You will have an innate sensitivity to the lady’s needs, goals and vision, whilst being empathetic to her personal challenges.

Requirements and Selection Criteria

Please demonstrate your ability to build a natural, positive and effective relationship with people with disability and their families.

Please demonstrate your ability to lead, coach and mentor a small team.

Please demonstrate your ability to listen, learn and reflect.

Experience of supporting people with diverse disability support needs is required – please describe your experience thus far

Please demonstrate how you have developed competent administration skills including planning and time management

Car and driver’s license

NDIS Worker Clearance Screening

Current First Aid and CPR

The Offer

This is an opportunity to bring your skills, experience and values and become a valued member of a team, your contribution will be pivotal to the family's vision of providing their adult daughter with a full and productive life.

Aura offers excellent working conditions and in conjunction with the family and network provides training, support and above award rates.

Benefits

Aura Lifestyle Services also offers staff access to Salary Sacrifice up to $15,900 per year for Casuals, Part-Time and Full-Time and confidential access to an Employee Assistance Program (for work related and personal related matters).

Hours

The position is Permanent Level 4.1 of Home Care Award; however, Aura pays above Award rates.

If this role resonates with you and you believe you have the skills and attitude this lady and family are looking for, please send your responses to the Selection Criteria and Requirements section above, your
Resume and cover letter outlining your interest in this position to [email protected] and quote “Yeronga T/L Position”.

Who we are

Aura Lifestyle Services is a service working with a small number of families who wish to direct and determine a good life for their family member with disability. Aura works with each family and individual to establish their own team of workers to ensure a positive, consistent and collective approach is achieved. All supports are genuinely individualized, unique and are safeguarding in nature as well as upholding the legal and human rights of those individuals we support.