Permanent Part Time - up to 73 hours per fortnight
📍 Location: Waratah, Newcastle
🚗 Must hold a current unrestricted drivers licence
🧡 Hands-on leadership role supporting people with disability and coaching support teams
🌘 Flexibility to work across a range of shifts including weekends as required
💼 Leadership experience within the disability sector preferred
Make a real impact
As a Practice Leader with Possability, you will support and guide Disability Support Workers to deliver high quality, person-centred supports that improve quality of life for the people we support.
This role combines hands-on support with team leadership, where you will model best practice, coach staff and build a strong, collaborative team focused on positive outcomes for customers.
What you will be doing 🫶
• Leading and mentoring Disability Support Workers to deliver quality supports
• Observing, modelling and coaching best practice support approaches
• Supporting customers to achieve their personal goals and build independence
• Facilitating team meetings and encouraging teamwork and collaboration
• Monitoring risks and identifying opportunities to improve outcomes
• Supporting the implementation of behaviour support and health support plans
• Ensuring services meet quality standards and NDIS requirements
• Assisting with onboarding and mentoring new team members
• Completing documentation including reports, incident records and audits
• Working directly alongside customers and modelling high quality support delivery
Why you will love working with us ✨
• Supportive and inclusive team culture
• Opportunities to develop your leadership skills
• Ongoing training and professional development
• Meaningful work supporting people with disability to live fulfilling lives
What you will bring 💼
• Experience supporting people with disability, particularly those with complex needs
• Demonstrated leadership or mentoring experience within support teams
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to coach, guide and motivate team members
• Strong organisational and problem solving skills
• Confidence using systems to complete documentation and reporting
• Current NDIS Worker Screening Clearance or willingness to obtain
• Current drivers licence
• Relevant qualifications in Disability, Community Services or similar are desirable
Who we are 💛
Possability and Lifestyle Solutions merged in 2022 to bring together two leading disability and community service organisations with more than 50 years of combined experience supporting individuals and families.
Practice Leader
We are a values-based organisation committed to creating a more equal society through flexible supports across disability services, foster care and out-of-home care.
Practice Leader
How to apply 📩
All applications must be lodged online. Shortlisting is ongoing so apply early.
For enquiries please email Tracey Foster tracey.foster@possabilitygroup.com.au
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.
