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Applications must be received before: 18/05/2026 9:00 am Type: Full Time Location: Kempsey or Port Macquarie Position Overview: Blue Sky Community Services is seeking a fulltime Team Leader (working three days directly with families in the community and two days as a Team Leader) to join our Families, Young People and Communities team within the Families Together program, commencing 1 July 2026. We are looking for a professional and valuesaligned individual to join our supportive and friendly team and contribute to the delivery of highquality Families Together services. This role will service the Kempsey and Port Macquarie Local Government Areas (LGAs) and will be based at Blue Skys Kempsey or Port Macquarie office. The position is offered on a fixedterm basis until 30 June 2031. This role requires a willingness to travel within the region. The position also involves participation in a 24/7 oncall phone roster shared across the team, with oncall allowances paid in accordance with the SCHADS Award. Successful candidates will be required to work flexibly between the hours of 6am and 8pm on weekdays, as needed, to respond to the needs of families. The Team Leader will: deliver intensive, traumainformed, strengthsbased, and childcentred practice to keep children safe at home with their families, preventing removal, entry into Out of Home Care, and future involvement with the child protection system assess and respond to child safety and wellbeing risks, including domestic and family violence, alcohol and other drug use, and emerging family crises, providing both direct intervention and practice guidance for staff develop, implement, and review familyled case plans that improve parenting capacity, safety, stability, education, health, and overall family wellbeing lead and support the delivery of the Families Together program, ensuring highquality, safe and effective service delivery in line with program objectives, performance indicators, and funding requirements provide leadership, supervision, and practice support to Family Practitioners and Family Support Workers, including case allocation, workload management, documentation quality, and support with complex and highrisk cases maintain accurate, timely, and compliant case documentation, and oversee team documentation and reporting to ensure quality practice, data integrity, and achievement of program outcomes build and maintain effective working relationships with DCJ and key stakeholders, including police, health services, schools, and community organisations, to support coordinated and integrated responses for families promote culturally safe, inclusive, and childfocused practice, supporting effective engagement with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families, and families from diverse cultural backgrounds, and contributing to continuous improvement and service quality initiatives. Who we are looking for: The successful applicant for this position will have: a relevant tertiary qualification in social work, psychology, or a related discipline, with demonstrated experience leading child and family service teams and delivering traumainformed, familycentred practice to vulnerable children and families demonstrated ability to lead, support, and qualityassure practice within Family Preservation programs, with strong working knowledge of NSW Department of Communities and Justice (DCJ) systems and requirements the capability and willingness to confidently lead, promote, and embed the Families Together program, including its goals, activities, processes, and functions, across both direct practice and team oversight the ability to model and uphold behaviours, attitudes, and professional conduct aligned with the organisations values, culture, and Code of Conduct, and to support team members to meet these expectations a strong commitment to delivering exceptional customer service, with the ability to foster service excellence and positive engagement with children, families, and stakeholders demonstrated ability to quickly learn, adapt to, and confidently use ICT systems, including the Microsoft suite, client management systems, and databases, while supporting compliance with documentation and reporting requirements highly developed organisational skills, a friendly and positive cando approach, and the willingness to travel within the local area to support families and provide leadership presence in practice settings. About the Families, Young People and Communities Team The Families, Young People and Communities team works with young people (aged 8 to 24) and their families, parents and carers to ensure young people are safe and connected, and parents are supported to strengthen family relationships, providing a wide range of support options for individuals, groups, and families. The team also works with local communities and in partnership with other sector services by delivering training to family and community services across the Mid North Coast. We are an inclusive employer We believe that the makeup of our workplace should reflect the diversity of the communities we work within. We therefore strongly encourage people with diverse backgrounds and cultures, and people who have lived experience of disability, to apply to work with us. #J-18808-Ljbffr