The Royal Children's Hospital

Manager – Community Living Services

The Royal Children's Hospital  •  Christies Beach, AU (Onsite)  •  6 hours ago
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Job Description

About Community Living Project

Community Living Project (CLP) partners with people with disability and their families to self-direct support and live purposeful, connected and valued lives in their communities. Established in 1984 and grounded in family leadership, CLP’s mission is to assist people with disability to live their own unique and purposeful life of inclusion through home, relationships, competencies and highly valued roles in community.

About the role

Reporting to the CEO, the Manager – Community Living Services leads day-to-day operations across CLP’s Community Living Services. You will support Community Living Facilitators, strengthen individualised arrangements, uphold CLP’s values and ensure services are safe, sustainable and aligned with each person’s vision for a good life. This role suits a calm, thoughtful leader who can balance operational complexity with respect for people with disability, families, workers and community.

  • Location: Christies Beach, South Australia, with services delivered across community settings
  • Employment: Common law employment arrangement
  • Flexible work arrangements are available

What you’ll do

  • Provide day-to-day operational leadership across Community Living Services.
  • Lead, supervise and mentor Community Living Facilitators, supporting reflective
    practice, accountability and values-aligned decision making.
  • Work with people and families to ensure supports are individualised, person-centred
    and grounded in each person’s interests, strengths, relationships and
    aspirations.
  • Build effective working relationships with people supported by CLP, their key loved ones, workers, facilitators and external stakeholders.
  • Oversee incidents, complaints, safeguarding, risks, documentation and escalation.
  • Manage resources, compliance, continuous improvement and organisational learning.

About you

You are a calm, organised, values-driven leader with experience in disability, community services, allied health, nursing or another human services setting. You bring strong skills in supervision, risk management, safeguarding, communication, budgeting and compliance, and share CLP’s belief that people with disability are people first, with gifts, aspirations and contributions to make.

Special conditions

  • Current NDIS Worker and Working With Children Checks
  • Current Driver’s Licence
  • Commitment to CLP’s philosophy, mission, values and organisational expectations

Why join CLP?

Join an organisation with a long history of inclusion, innovation and family leadership. You will help lead services that support people to build ordinary, meaningful and connected lives at home and in community.

How to apply

To apply, submit your resume and a cover letter outlining your interest, relevant
leadership experience and alignment with CLP’s mission. Closing applications for this role on the 9th August 2026.

The Royal Children's Hospital

About The Royal Children's Hospital

The Royal Children's Hospital (RCH) has been providing outstanding care for Victoria's children and their families for over 147 years.

We are the major specialist paediatric hospital in Victoria and our care extends to children from Tasmania, southern New South Wales and other states around Australia and overseas.

With a passionate, highly skilled and committed staff campus wide of over 5,000, we provide a full range of clinical services, tertiary care and health promotion and prevention programs for children and young people.

We are the designated state-wide major trauma centre for paediatrics in Victoria and a Nationally Funded Centre for cardiac and liver transplantation.

When it comes to training and research we partner with the very best. Our campus partners, the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute (MCRI) and The University of Melbourne Department of Paediatrics, along with the RCH Foundation, are on site with the hospital in Parkville. Together, we are committed to improving the health outcomes for children today and in the future.

In 2016–17, more than 85,654 children attended our Emergency Department, 322,291 specialist clinic appointments were held which was almost 70,000 more than the previous year, more than 17,000 surgeries were performed and more than 48,552 children were admitted to our wards.

Industry
Healthcare & Social Services
Company Size
1,001-5,000 employees
Headquarters
Parkville, AU
Year Founded
Unknown
Website
org.au
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