Residential Manager – Cairns Youth Residential Rehabilitation Services

  • Great opportunity to lead the new Cairns Youth Residential Rehabilitation Service
  • Operated by the Youth Advocacy & Support Service (YSAS) in collaboration with YETI, Gindaja & Queensland Health
  • Access to learning and development opportunities
  • Opportunity to deliver a positive impact for young people and their families

 

The position:

  • Based in Cairns, Queensland (Occasional travel may be required)
  • Permanent
  • Full-Time (76 Hours per fortnight)
  • Remuneration SCHADS level 8 or RPN5 or RN5 equivalent, dependent on qualifications and experience
  • 12 % Employer Superannuation Contribution
  • Generous salary packaging

 

This is 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. This role is critical to developing business intelligence and identifying emerging trends, enabling the delivery of high-quality, clinically safe services and evidence-based decision-making within the organisation.

The incumbent will be responsible for the management of a 24-hour work environment over 7 days of the week, and includes overseeing quality and safety processes, staffing, rostering, risk assessment and mitigation, and ongoing program development.

YSAS recognises, respects, promotes and celebrates the value of diversity, adopts inclusive policies and strategies, and aims to have diversity within the YSAS workforce in line with the communities that it works with. YSAS strives to be an equal opportunity employer.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants are encouraged to apply.

For full details of the position, please see the position description below. 

Please note:

  1. As part of our Employment screening process, you will be required to undertake a Nationally Coordinated Criminal History Check and have a current blue card.
  2. You must also have Australian work rights to apply for this position

Further Enquiries

For a confidential discussion about the position, please contact Ajibola Akintola, General Manager of Residential and Primary Care Services, on 0437357470 regarding the Residential Manager position, Recruitment Ref. Number – 006_2026.

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