Join us as a Senior Job Coach in Community Services

Vacancy Type:         Fixed Term (12 months) - Full-Time/Part Time
Job reference:         494521
Applications close:  05-Jun-24

Are you searching for a leadership opportunity that offers an exceptional work/life balance while allowing you to make a meaningful impact on the lives of individuals with disabilities? Look no further!

We Offer

• An attractive remuneration package with excellent salary packaging tax benefits
• Flexible working hours
• A rewarding career in a growing service sector
• Supportive team environment 
• The opportunity to work alongside and empower people with disability to reach their maximum potential
• Ongoing training, team support and professional development opportunities

About the Role

As a Senior Job Coach you will play a pivotal role in the delivery of supports to facilitate employment options for people with disability thereby enhancing their quality of life. Your Key responsibilities will include (but not limited to):

• Leadership : Provide coordination, support and practice supervision to a small team of employment coaches, ensuring fidelity to evidence based best practice in employment of people with disability
• Relationship Building: Establishing and maintaining ongoing relationships with local employers
• Develop, Design and Coordinate : Develop, design and coordinate capacity building supports and activities to complement skills required to maintain employment more broadly across the community service and other portfolios at Yooralla
• Operational Excellence: Effective utilisation of Participant Funding and supporting the employment coach team
• Support Excellence: Providing support and advice to employers and assisting participants.

About You

To be successful in this role you'll share Yooralla's Values and have:

• Leadership experience: Demonstrated leadership of support delivery teams
• Sector Knowledge: Understanding of legislation and standards relevant to the disability sector.
• Relationship Building: Ability to maintain strong relationships with stakeholders including employers, potential employers and other partners
• Communication Skills: Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Resource Management: Demonstrated ability to manage financial and staff resources within a complex environment.
• Initiative and Organization: Excellent initiative, self-directed work practices, and highly developed organizational skills.
• Minimum Certificate IV, or relevant work experience in disability, community services, employment services or a related field

Other Mandatory requirements

·         International Police Check (if required)

·         Working with Children Check

·         NDIS Worker Screening Check

·         Current driver's licence to drive in Australia

·         Requirement to use own smartphone or tablet device for receiving shifts and client confirmation of attendance

Vacancy contact

To find out more about this role or working with Yooralla, please contact Moses Abbatangelo on 0418 317 197 or  moses.abbatangelo@yooralla.com.au

Why Yooralla?

At Yooralla, you’ll work at Victoria’s most established and recognised for purpose disability service provider with more than 100 years of experience offering high quality support services to people with disability. We work in partnership with adults and children, their families and carers to enable them to live the lives they choose. Find out more about what we do.

We believe in diversity, inclusion and equality and are committed to ensuring that our workplaces are a reflection of the Victorian community. We recognise the benefits that diversity and inclusion brings, and in turn encourage talented people from all backgrounds, abilities and identities to apply to our vacancies. We strongly encourage people with disability, LGBTQIA+ and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islands People to apply.

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