Leadership Opportunity in Adult Disability Services!
Ready for a genuine career change? Westhaven invites passionate leaders to step into a Team Leader, Adult Services role on a permanent Full Time basis.
Forget the mid-year slump-make this season the moment you choose a career that's rewarding, crucial, and dedicated to meaningful impact. This role is pivotal in driving our growth and building a workforce committed to delivering quality support across regional NSW.
Benefits That Matter:
Competitive Salary: SCHADS Level 4 - $46.70 to $50.25 per hour (Social, Community, Home Care and Disability Services Industry Award 2010) + shift loadings & super (12%)
Tax-Free Salary Packaging: Up to $15,900 per year (pro-rata)
Meal & Entertainment Benefit: Enjoy a tax-free card up to $2,650 per year (pro-rata)
Exclusive Discounts: Automotive discounts, pharmacy discounts, and Fitness Passport.
Embrace Diversity, Spark Inclusion
Invest in YOU: Grow with Westhaven’s Leadership and Development Training
As an Adult Services Team Leader, you will:
Empower a team of Support Workers to provide high-quality and safe services to vulnerable persons within our community.
Coach and mentor a team of Support Workers, offering on-the-job training, support, and guidance.
Inspire a skilled, versatile, and diverse team utilising your experience in managing performance and delivering support.
Support service delivery by ensuring effective and efficient administrative processes and procedures, including quality, timely, and accurate reporting, planning, and record-keeping.
You will have:
Proven advanced problem-solving, emotional intelligence, and positive interaction skills across diverse communities.
Demonstrated ability to lead, motivate, and performance manage teams in a fast-paced & dynamic environment.
Effective conflict resolution, negotiation, mediation, and decision-making skills.
A track record of building teams with clear goals, fostering innovation and collaboration.
Commitment to a person-centred approach for vulnerable individuals.
Experience supporting complex needs, behaviours of concern, and mental health is essential; working with people with a disability and/or children or youth in care experience is highly regarded.
Qualifications in Disability Services, Community Services, or Individual Support/working towards these qualifications, or be of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander background.
Availability to work between 6am–10pm for at least 3 days per week.
About Us:
Westhaven is and will continue to be the provider of choice for disability support services and accommodation across regional NSW. Westhaven provides client-centric, high-quality programs and activities that provide whole-of-life support for people with disability, including offering houses that are homes, enabling choice and control, and supporting participants to live life the way they choose.
Compliance Requirements:
Current NSW Driver’s licence
Obtain and maintain a current paid Working with Children Check
Obtain and maintain a valid National Disability Insurance Scheme Workers Check (NDISWC)
Willingness to undertake a pre-employment police check
Current First Aid and CPR Certification
Seize Your Next Career Chapter:
Please submit your CV and a cover letter addressing your abilities to undertake the key responsibilities of this role.
We encourage diversity and inclusion: Westhaven is passionate about social justice and diversity and is committed to being an EEO employer. We embrace diversity in our workforce and encourage applications from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, including those from Aboriginal, Torres Strait Island heritage and people with lived experience of disability.
Please Note: To be considered for this Support Worker role under the SCHADS Award, applicants must hold valid, independent Australian working rights, as Westhaven does not offer visa sponsorship for this position.
For more information or confidential enquiries please contact the People and Culture team at [email protected]
Applications Close: The selection process will commence upon the receipt of applications & will close at 9am Monday 20th July 2026 or prior, if a suitable candidate is found.
