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Child Safety, Seniors and Disabilities

Senior Team Leader

Townsville

August 30, 2024

The Senior Team Leader key responsibilities are:
  • Allocate, prioritise and perform work tasks in accordance with departmental policy, the Framework for Practice, practice guidelines and statutory, financial and administrative delegations.
  • Provide leadership and management of staff to deliver quality child protection service delivery consistent with legislation, departmental policies, practice guidelines and statutory responsibilities and in accordance with best practice Human Resource principles.
  • Allocate, prioritise and perform work tasks in accordance with departmental policy, the Framework for Practice, practice guidelines and statutory, financial and administrative delegations.
  • In conjunction with the Service Centre Manager, develop appropriate service responses to meet the identified needs of clients including children, young people, families, carers, the community, public and non-government sectors and service providers.
  • Identify training needs and collaborate with the relevant training and development specialists in defining the training gap, to enable content development and implementation. Provide advice to the relevant training and development specialists in the region regarding your evaluation of appropriate programs that support quality service delivery'
  • Develop enduring service delivery partnerships to enhance cross-sector collaboration, and support staff attendance at training and development and the delivery and co-ordination of local child protection services.
  • Foster a culture and philosophy of frontline service delivery, cooperation, team work, high quality people management, commitment to excellence and a professional ethic which ensures the service team continues to meet the department's vision, values and priorities.
  • Actively participate as a member of the Child Safety Service Centre Management Team and in quality assurance reviews of the service centre.
  • Provide authoritative and specialist advice and decisions on complex casework matters, child protection policy, legislation and practice to relevant service centre staff to assist in the coordination of quality and appropriate client services.
  • Enhance the local regional community by actively practicing and promoting excellence in service delivery and public administration and identifying opportunities for improving regional client service.
  • Provide leadership and management of staff to deliver quality child protection service delivery consistent with legislation, departmental policies, practice guidelines and statutory responsibilities and in accordance with best practice Human Resource principles.
Working relationships in this role:
In this role you will report to the Service Centre Manager and directly supervise a number of Child Safety Officers.
The nature of regional service delivery requires that close collaborative relationships will also be established with non-government organisations and other government agencies within the community and broader region.

Delegations:
Senior Team Leaders exercise specific delegations under relevant legislation (Child Protection Act 1999, Adoption of Children Act 1964, Children's Court Act 1992, Family Services Act 1987).
Applications to remain current for 12 months.This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License.
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