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Residential Manager

Youth Support + Advocacy Service

Youth Support + Advocacy Service (YSAS) is one of Australia’s largest and most comprehensive, youth specific community service organisation that enables young people experiencing serious disadvantage to access the resources and support they require to lead healthy and fulfilling lives.

YSAS is a Child Safe organisation. We actively promote the safety and wellbeing of young people, and are committed to protecting young people from harm or abuse who come into contact with and/or access our service. Applicants must undergo rigorous screening and recruitment processes, including providing evidence of current WWCC and National Police Check.

About the position

The YSAS Eastern Residential withdrawal unit is a 5 bed facility providing a residential AOD program for young people experiencing harm and significant problems relating to their AOD use.

The Manager is responsible for the management of a 24 hour work environment over 7 days of the week. This includes overseeing quality and safety processes. Staffing, rostering, risk assessment and mitigation and ongoing program development.

Based at the Eastern Residential Withdrawal Unit, the Manager Eastern Residential withdrawal unit has a critical role in the development of business intelligence and identification of emerging trends that enable the delivery of high quality and clinically safe services and evidence based decision making within the organisation. The Manager Eastern Residential withdrawal unit holds a formal leadership role and therefore is responsible for inspiring a shared vision, modelling a values based approach, and creating a culture in which new ways of working are encouraged and enabled.

Selection Criteria for Appointment into role:

  • Demonstrated capacity to motivate, lead, manage and supervise a multidisciplinary staff team
  • Demonstrated capacity and experience in working with disadvantaged young people, especially those in a residential withdrawal or similar settings
  • Demonstrated knowledge and experience of statutory and ethical safety requirements in a mixed gender, residential service for young people.
  • Demonstrated capacity in program planning, implementation and review
  • Demonstrated skills in risk assessment and mitigation planning and implementation
  • A working knowledge of financial management practices

For full details of the position, please view the POSITION DESCRIPTION below or visit our website www.ysas.org.au

Further Enquiries

For a confidential discussion about the position, please contact Rebecca Wardan on 0439 888 353.

  • YSAS is an equal opportunity employer and we welcome applications from all sectors of the community.
  • YSAS has a zero tolerance for child abuse and is committed to the provision of a child-safe organisation.

Due to the predicted volume of applications, please note you will only be contacted if you are successful in progressing to a first round interview.

Please note: As part of our Employment screening process you will be required to undertake a National Criminal History check and have a current Working With Children Check.

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