Group Manager Support Services

Job No: S143

Location: Community and Aged Care - Greenslopes

About Us

Spiritus is an Anglican not-for-profit organisation providing caring and supportive services in partnership with government and other support organisations, to respond to identified needs in our community.

Our staff connect with people on every step of their lives' paths, responding with compassion, creativity, commitment and courage to the needs of the infirm and those most at risk in our communities.

Every day the passionate staff and volunteers of Spiritus are working to respond to growing community demand for our services. 

Spiritus is committed to social and community welfare issues and aged and community care needs, particularly with respect to disadvantaged members of the community.

Whether it is providing nursing care and domestic assistance in the home, physiotherapy to enable the return of mobility, emergency accommodation for victims of domestic violence, working with foster carers in the care of vulnerable children, a safe caring environment for frail elderly people, wound care for homeless, skills training for young unemployed people or parental education and counselling, Spiritus is there, providing the best quality care available.

The work of Spiritus stretches from Cairns to Coolangatta, from Birdsville to Brisbane and reaches people of all ages with a variety of needs.

You are invited to reflect on our Vision, Mission and Value statements on our web site!

About the Role

A recent restructure of our Community and Aged Care services has created an exciting career opportunity for a highly motivated and experienced individual with a passion for high quality service to join the senior leadership team of the Spiritus Community and Aged Care stream. 

Reporting to the Director of Community and Aged Care, this critical role will provide leadership and direction relative to the development and operations of an allocated group of key functions to enable the provision of client and resident-centred domestic service (cleaning, kitchen, laundry) models, contemporary and relevant client information services and systems, and administration services to support the Community and Aged Care stream.

 In addition you will have the responsibility of: 

• Developing contemporary, consistent, responsive and financially viable support services that facilitate the delivery of the organisation's strategic intents.
• Providing leadership and facilitation of administration services, and for other strategic initiatives where assigned; under the leadership and the direction of the Director Community and Aged Care. 

Possession of or working towards a post-graduate qualification in business management, or substantial related experience at a senior level will be highly regarded.

In addition to responding to the questions below, this role requires the applicant to provide comprehensive responses to the key selection criteria below.  Please include your responses in your resume document to attach when you have completed your application. A pop-up window will appear after you click the "Submit Application" button to allow you do this.

Key Selection Criteria  

• Relevant qualifications in business management, or demonstrable equivalent experience.
• Substantial experience in a senior management role and evidence of applying contemporary management process relevant to achieving organizational goals;
• Evidence of demonstrable business improvement initiatives;
• Demonstrated mature interpersonal and communication skills (written and oral) and the ability to motivate and work with staff in the achievement of organizational goals within a team environment;
• High level of problem solving and decision making skills;
• Demonstrated experience in successful change management and the building of a strong success orientated and empowered team culture.
• Proven ability to develop, implement, coordinate, evaluate and modify the delivery of high quality innovative client-focused domestic services and service support models.
• Demonstrated evidence of an ability to logically and comprehensively critique domestic and support service models.
• Experience in health or community or aged care services management, or relevant transferable skills from another sector.

To access a copy of the position description, please visit www.spiritus.org.au  click on the Join Our Team tab across the top of the page, and then click on the Current Work Opportunities With Spiritus.  Underneath the role overview will be a link to download a copy of the position description.

For further information about this role, please contact Sally Saeri via email ssaeri@spiritus.org.au

Applications close Friday 19 March 2010