selectability is seeking a highly motivated and experienced team leader - child & family care to join our team. As a team leader - child & family care, you will be responsible for leading a team of child & family care professionals to ensure the safety and well-being of children and young people in our care. Our youth residential program provides care and intensive support to children and young people who have a variety of needs.
Team leaders play a vital role in leading a team that supports children and young people to live their best life. Team leaders have a passion for working with young people and provide guidance and support to a team of youth workers. You will be responsible for maintaining compliance with the relevant Child & Family Care legislation and regulation, as well as organisational policy and procedures. You will build and maintaining effective relationships with key stakeholders, including government agencies, families, and young people.
As a team leader you will lead, coach, and mentor a team of senior youth workers and youth workers in meeting a child or young person’s individual needs whilst promoting cultural safe and competent practice within the program.
Team leaders oversee house operations with a strengths-based, person-centred approach while also maintaining a strong outcomes focus.
The team leader - child & family care responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
To be successful you must:
We offer a range of benefits including:
If this sounds like you, please submit your resume and a cover letter outlining your skills and experience and why you are the best person for this role.
If you would like more information please contact selectability's Townsville HR team on07 4453 0100 or by email hrtownsville@selectability.com.au
selectability is a not-for-profit charity with a primary focus of improving mental wellbeing and contributing to suicide prevention across regional Queensland.
We believe everyone has the right to access high-quality supports locally and have recently expanded our services to include Child & Family Care, and residential aged care in the Lower Gulf.
If you would like to know more, please visit our website.
selectability is a not-for-profit charity dedicated to improving mental wellbeing and preventing suicide across regional Queensland.
We believe everyone deserves access to high-quality supports locally and at every stage of life. Over the past year, we’ve strengthened our commitment to delivering child and family care, along with aged care services, so that more Queenslanders in regional, rural and remote communities have access to the support they need.
Operating across a diverse geographic footprint, our head office is based in Townsville. Our aged care services span the Lower Gulf communities of Normanton, Mornington Island, and Doomadgee, and selectabiity has recently expanded this program to Aurukun.
Since 2021, we’ve provided child and family care services, and in that time have expanded and matured our program to ensure more children and young people have access to the residential care they need.
Today, we support 18 diverse communities—extending north to Aurukun, south to Rockhampton, and west to Mount Isa.
We’re proud to be one of the region’s leading providers of NDIS psychosocial supports—and by partnering with state and federal governments, we deliver wellbeing programs that ensure people who aren’t receiving the NDIS can still access the vital services they need.
selectability's workforce of almost 1000 passionate, skilled and dedicated individuals is central to our high-quality, person-centred service delivery. Our team delivers care with empathy and professionalism, supporting our recipients to build confidence, indepedence and a strong sense of beloning.
Whether it's supporting individuals through the NDIS or a funded wellbeing program, guiding the development of children and young people, or delivering aged care services with dignity and respect, our employees make a difference every day.
